Activision CEO Bobby Kotick announced earlier today at the DICE summit that his company plans on sponsoring an independent games competition.
What this all entails?
Absolutely unclear, save the fact that there will be a whopping $500,000 involved. Not a lot of money for the giant that is Activision-Blizzard, but that’s big bucks for the indie scene to be [...]
The second round of Assemblee wrapped up a few days ago, and I’ve been looking over the completed entries for hidden gems.
I’ve been pretty impressed with what the game designers were able to come up with, since there were working with sound and sprite resources that were created without a game in mind. After [...]
At the current level of the industry, we have gone past musical instruments as peripherals and are now concentrating on ways to integrate full body motions into gaming. We are upping the ante with increasing graphical capabilities and creating vast worlds filled with detail. But, as it has been many times, even the games with [...]
2Bee Games’ second Independent Game competition is winding down. There are now four finalists to choose from:
DriftMoon – an RPG title by Ville Mönkkönen which is currently in its early stage.
Kablooey! – an innovative point-and-click game that promotes logical thought.
Turba – a puzzle/rhythm title in which the gameplay is directly relevant to the music the [...]
2Bee Games has, finally, revealed their top 10 finalists for their second Independent Game Competition. For those that don’t yet know, two of the previous finalists are actually getting their games’ made into XBLA and PSN downlaodable titles. So there’s quite a bit more here than the simple $10,000 grand prize… although that certainly doesn’t [...]
Zoo Games has decided to take the “community favorite” award winning game, Storm, and turn it into a published piece of work to sell in 2010. It’s always great to see indie games get the type of promotion they deserve and I can thing of no better game than Storm to get that treatment.
Storm was [...]
