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HBO is limbering up for a TV drama tackling the most harrowing and difficult subject it's approached yet: indie video games. It's early days yet, but the cable channel has optioned documentary Indie Game: The Movie to make a fiction series.
Toxic Games is planning to bring its indie puzzler Q.U.B.E. to other platforms besides PC, including Mac, iOS, and OnLive.
Last year's Digital: A Love Story was an unappreciated gem, a sweet little mystery/sci-fi visual novel told through BBSs "five minutes into the future of 1988." Now, developer Christine Love's blasting off into the future with sequel Analogue: A Hate Stor
This week Shacknews finally reveals its top five games of 2011. Today we begin with the fourth runner-up, Deus Ex: Human Revolution from developers Eidos Montreal and Nixxies (PC).
Denizens of the miserable rock known as 'Earth,' know that the Unstoppable Gorg is coming to free you from your pitiful existences this week, in Futuremark Games Studio's tower defense game for PC, Mac and iPad electronic toys.
This week's indie pick is Fractal: Make Blooms Not War, a deceptively tricky and unique puzzle game from developer Cipher Prime, makers of Auditorium and Pulse.
The Student Competition winners for the 2012 Independent Games Festival have been announced, culled from nearly three-hundred game submissions.
If the string of developers making the same game with the exact same map weren't a big enough hint that the MOBA--Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, or 'DotA clone' to you and me--is getting big, the genre's now getting its very own mouse by Razer.
MacGuffin's Curse, a new puzzle-adventure from Brawsome entertainment has been announced for a PC/Mac release in April on Steam, in addition to iOS versions.
Look, you don't need any more cheap PC games, not after the mahoosive Christmas sales. But, if you're going to be greedy, you game-glutton, here's a some of the offers on at digital distributors this weekend.
