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Shooting faces is all good and well, but sometimes a bit of wandering about is just what you need. We live in fine times for first-person explore 'em ups, with the likes of Proteus, Dear Esther, At a Distance, and Richard Perrin's Kairo. Perrin released a demo for his explore-o-puzzler over the weekend, and announced that it'll be released for PC and Mac on October 21.
After waiting so long for Castle Crashers to come to PC, now it's all happening so fast. Barely a month after revealing that glorious news, developer The Behemoth yesterday announced that it'll release its wonderful beat 'em up for PC and Mac via Steam next week, on September 26.
"In the long run we want to be known as the people who have the best value in gaming," Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer said, promising to make all future DLC for the game free.
Valve has announced that it will reveal the next bath of Steam Greenlight titles on October 15.
Torchlight II might launch on Thursday, but that's still positively ages to wait for chilling new tunes from Matt Uelmen, the mastermind behind the original's tunes and the Diablo series' most iconic music. Huzzah, then, for developer Runic Games today released the 74-minute soundtrack for free. You now have music for your private launch party.
Pay-what-you-want pioneers Humble Bundle have returned with another bargain bundle of top indie games for your purchasing pleasure. Its latest offering packs Dustforce, Rochard, Shatter, Space Pirates and Zombies, Torchlight and Vessel, along with most of their soundtracks.
Surprise! A beta version of Guild Wars 2 for Mac OS X entered public beta today, for anyone who already owns the game to try out on their shiny white box. Delightfully, the beta version runs on the live servers, you Macateers can jump right into playing with their chums on William Gates' Windows.
While there have been countless iterations of the Angry Birds series, don't expect Rovio's next spinoff to look anything like the avian moneymaker. Bad Piggies may have its roots in the Angry Birds franchise, but it looks more like Amazing Alex.
Zynga denies allegations made by EA, saying the company has no exclusive claim to the "life simulation" genre. In a prepared statement to Shacknews, Zynga also claims that EA is guilty of "anticompetitive and unlawful business practices," for which the company has filed a counterclaim.
Valve's Robin Walker talks about how Team Fortress 2 became a test bed for shifting marketplace trends.
