Tag Archives: Indie

2015 PAX Aus now accepting submissions for Indie Showcase

The crowdfunding campaign for Playtonic’s new 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee has already surpassed its funding goal of 175,000, less than an hour after it began. The game is developed by ex-Rare developers and is billed as the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie. It stars a chameleon named Yooka and a bat called …

Since it started releasing games for PlayStation platforms in 2010, Brighton-based indie developer FuturLab had been publishing its own titles. This included the Velocity series of shoot-em-ups, as well as the Surge and Coconut Dodge games. But in February of this year, the developer announced it was turning to Activision’s …

That might read like an odd headline when you consider we’ve just launched indie game month and we have an entire event dedicated to this audience in just two weeks. But, does anyone know what the term ‘indie game’ is supposed to represent anymore? Independence has been a constant theme …

Ex-DICE dev and former Paradox mobile VP create ‘unpublisher’ for indie games

So, you’ve seen our stories and updates: Interface is coming on May 14th. We’ve got lots of businesses signed up, and will have influential speakers for workshops, great new games on show and publishers ready to sign new titles. But if you haven’t got a completely clear picture of what …

New titles require unique non-game related hook or hilariously weird premise to gain coverage, says Cliff Harris

Ten studios will get the chance to show off their game to 1,800 developers and publishers

Founder of Steam firm will be added to retro-styled dungeon crawler Crawl as a knife-wielding foe

Moon Studios celebrates the success of its Xbox One and PC indie title