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Microsoft Releases Slimline Windows 10 for the Raspberry Pi
Microsoft has unveiled a developer-focused, Windows 10 edition designed for the Rapsberry Pi. Windows 10 IoT Core is targeted towards small form-factor devices and doesn’t utilize the default Windows shell. This means you create your own Universal Windows App and construct a visual frontend. To access these creation tools, you need a…
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Super Meat Boy 2 is a Distinct Possibility
Super Meat Boy is an excruciatingly difficult but thoroughly addicting fast-action platformer which help start the indie revolution. The studio, Team Meat originally said a direct sequel would never happen and concentrated their efforts on a game called Mew-Genics. However, Team Meat’s Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes discussed the possibility…
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8-Year-Old Game Developer Easily Reaches Kickstarter Target
Ari Hackner is an 8-year-old boy from Los Angeles with a penchant for technology and game development. His mother setup a Kickstarter asking for $1,100 to help with expenses and launch a project designed to enhance his creativity and marketing awareness. With 16 days left, the Kickstarter has already amassed $1,530…
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Indie Dev Will no Longer Offer Free Press Copies
Paul Stephen-Davis, the CEO of Retro Army Limited, has announced the company will no longer provide review codes to press outlets. This decision comes after a wave of scammers and key resellers exploited the developer and pretended to be a legitimate website. Indie developers struggle to deal with the PR side…
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First Trailer for Indie First Person Game Fantasiam Released
We get a lot of emails from random people wanting to share their work with us, some we cover but most we throw away because it looks like something created in a 6th-grade computer class. Fantasiam is one that caught my eye right away and while this is very early footage,…
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Free Game for Batman: Arkham Knight Early Adopters
The aptly named, No Bull Intentions indie studio has decided to provide a free copy of their satirical comedic game, The Supreme League of Patriots to Batman: Arkham Knight purchasers. This even applies if you have already filed for a refund and able to send a proof of purchase. Although, doing so…
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Dimension Drive Kickstarter Ruined by Funding Troll
Being an independent developer and creating your own game worthy of release is hard enough and getting it all out is even harder. Thanks to Kickstarter and similar crowdfunding pages the whole thing got a lot easier as you can sell your idea for funding – that is unless you get…
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Kerbal Space Program to Finally Leave Early Access!
After nearly 4 whole years since the initial release, Kerbal Space Program is finally ready to make the move from Early Access to full release on 27th April! The news came about after a developer post on the game’s forums announced the date of the release alongside a short youtube…
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Indie Survival Game P.A.M.E.L.A. Looks Promising
VYVE Studios, an indie games company made up of 4 team members, has announced a new first-person survival game by the name of P.A.M.E.L.A. It is powered by the latest Unity 5 game engine and is said to currently be in its pre-alpha development stage for PC. The game takes…
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Unreal Engine 4 Powered ARPG Age of Blood Gets Greenlit on Steam
Age of Blood, an ARPG game by the indie developers Galaxy Interactive, has recently been greenlit on Steam as well as a complete re-wrap of everything. The game had started out based on UDK, but the goals for the game just weren’t within reach with that. So an almost complete recode…
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Indie Zone booth at Insomnia i52
One of the more unique attractions here at Insomnia i52 was the Indie Zone, a collection of smaller gaming areas where smaller developers have chosen to setup everything from Oculus Rift to consoles for people to come and play their latest games or in development projects. There are a lot…
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Commodore 64 – Watch_Dogs 1989 Edition
It’s not the first time we’ve seen a retro-edition of a new game, remember the old school shoot em’ up version of Borderlands that was released a couple of years ago? Well aside from the fact that this game would need to shit on a colossal amount of floppy discs, or…
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Fulfil Your Lifelong Dreams With Goat Simulator!
Armin Ibrisagic of Coffee Stain Studios has created one of the strangest games I’ve ever seen, although in all honestly I think it is a little bit of a stretch to even call it a game. Goat Simulator was the result of the recent Global Game Jam, and it acts…
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Indie Dungeon Crawler StarCrawlers Revealed, Brings A Sci-Fi Twist To The Popular Genre
Independent game studio Juggernaut Games have just announced their first title – StarCrawlers. The dungeon-crawling genre is one that has been done to death in the world of gaming, knights, wizards and more have graced our screens more times than I care to count, but it looks like Juggernaut Games…
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Free MMO/RPG ‘Fantasy Realm Online’ Now Available To The Public
Fantasy Realm Online is a FREE classic sandbox MMO/RPG hybrid for Windows and Linux that has a similar look/feel to the Ultima series (Specifically U7/UO). the development team have been working on the game independently over the past few years, putting thousands of hours of development and tens of thousands…
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