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Danish indie Megafuzz discusses Spoiler Alert, a love letter to classic platformers that you play in reverse

The Nintendo website has been updated with a new section looking to emphasize the company’s indie credentials. Carrying the strap line Get the games you want, when you want them – over 1,000 new, classic, and indie titles to choose from”, the page leads with titles such as Steamworld Dig, …

What’s better than a free clone of Flappy Bird on iOS or Android? The answer: definitely not a clone that costs $15 and comes with a large fluffy Bluetooth controller. Nonetheless, that option is available to you thanks to a new crowdfunding venture from ZowPow. It’s called Flappy and is …

Development tech also adds new physically based shading render pipeline

Having been defeated by Apple in more or less aspect of its business, Blackberry has decided to mock its rival over the iPhone’s battery life. Yahoo reports that chief executive John Chen told conference attendees that he calls [iPhone owners] wall huggers” due to their need to stay near a …

Southpaw-created program available from early April

PS3’s virtual world app PlayStation Home is to shortly be updated with Trophy support. The often-forgotten social network will on Wednesday (March 12th) be patched to version v1.86, according to PlayStation Europe community manager Chris Owen, allowing users to earn Trophies for an unspecified array of activities. The Trophies will …

PlayStation UK MD Fergal Gara tells MCV why the platform holder will never give up on its portable console, and where it goes next… Many of the exciting games announced for Vita are indie projects. Do you think the console is lacking a big triple-A product this year? Well, there …

The Game Developers Conference is upon us once more, and Develop has compiled a comprehensive guide to help you on your way

OnLive says its new business model will finally convince gamers that cloud gaming can work. But analysts remain sceptical that fans will want to spend money on the new-look service. OnLive says its original business model, where games could buy a virtual version of their title and have it streamed …