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2009 was quite a year for iPhone and mobile titles across the board. In December, Bolt Creative announced that Pocket God sold over 1.7 million downloads. And now, another IGF Mobile “Honorable Mention” game unveils its success as it claims 3 million paid downloads on the App Store. This comes as no surprise, of course, [...]

Earlier this month, we mentioned the Organic Indie Preorder Pack; a pre-order bundle for Unknown Worlds’ Natural Selection 2 Special Edition and developer Wolfire Games’ Overgrowth that essentially discounted the titles into a buy one, get one free deal. Well apparently things went better than expected as Wolfire has released some info about the sale.
The [...]

Nominations for Spike TV’s Video Game Awards 2009 have been announced, included in the awards again is the Best Independent Game (apparently fueled by Mtn Dew) with this year’s four finalists being Twisted Pixel’s ‘Splosion Man, Hemisphere’s Osmos, RedLynx’s Trials HD and thatgamecompany’s Flower.
You can vote for your favorite here. Spike’s VGA 2009 takes place December 12, [...]

Well, it happened! When Carlo Sunseri embarked on a quest to create an indie title that was based on the sport of Lacrosse, he perhaps imagined it would interest outside parties. Lo and behold, Inside Lacrosse–the premiere media outlet for the sport of Lacrosse–has become the exclusive media partner of College Lacrosse 2010.
In fact, the [...]

When you talk about indie developers and success, Ronimo Games should be mentioned. These are the same individuals who created de Blob, which later became an incredibly popular cross-platform title. But this isn’t about de Blob, rather it’s about their new game, Swords & Soldiers. For those who are interested (that’s all of you), Swords [...]

I was taken by surprise earlier today as I perused last week’s top ten sellers list on Impulse, Machinarium, Amanita Design’s robot adventure that has enchanted us over the last few weeks, was sitting right there in the seventh spot.
Woah! That’s quite excellent, especially when you consider that the list covers through October 17 and [...]

It’s rare to see an indie game from Japan release in the United States or Europe. However, Nicalis–who will be porting Daisuke Amaya’s popular Japanese hit–will see to it that Cave Story, an NES styled platformer,  will be released on Nintendo’s WiiWare. The story pits you, the hero Quote, onto an island threatened by an [...]

Think Services Game Group has announced via press release that organizers have picked the winners of the inaugural Independent Games Festival China at GDC China 2009. The ceremony, presented by IGF China judge and Chinese game industry veteran Kevin Li and Game Developer Magazine and Gamasutra.com publisher Simon Carless, awarded the best independent game and student developers in the [...]

When put into perspective, it is true that—especially for giants Valve or Activision—the inclusion of zombies will magically increase sales and boost hype over a game. But when that same inclusion is applied to an indie format, the results are actually even more staggering. The key, however, is that there be some form of originality [...]

When mod team turned developer Tripwire Interactive wanted their survival shooter Killing Floor to hit retail and couldn’t find anyone else to do it, they did it themselves. Now the company is expanding further into the retail business while not forgetting its roots by handling the US retail release of ACE Team’s unique first person [...]