On paper, “Epic RPG” is a fully fleshed-out video game. Intrepid adventurers grind out currency to purchase enchanted armaments from their local outfitters, and delve into dungeons to slay wolves, scorpions and killer robots. You fish, cut down trees, and scavenge for food, and a continuous drizzle of experience points showers your character. Every two […]
GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. Hosted Online April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Indie games publisher TinyBuild, known for its Hello Neighbor games, went public on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market, with a valuation of $ 474 million. The Seattle-based company raised $ 49 […]
For nearly as long as video games have been around, they’ve enjoyed a tight relationship with pop music. As early as 1983, Bally-Midway collaborated with Journey to make a game full of licensed songs and the band members’ digitized faces (which followed more than a decade of pinball cabinets featuring megaton bands), and that says […]
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Ubisoft said it will showcase 13 indie game studios at the virtual Gamescom event through its Ubisoft Entrepreneurs program. Gamescom normally draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to Cologne, Germany, but this year the audience will be all virtual. Gamescom takes place […]
PlayStation introduced a new initiative focused on independent titles called PlayStation Indies along with a slew of new games. “With PlayStation Indies, we hope to spotlight and support the best of the best indie games being published on PlayStation and the entire indie community as a whole. Our goal is to make PlayStation the best […]
When Riot Forge came calling at Double Stallion Games in Montreal, they didn’t say what it was for. They asked the game studio to make one of its signature 2D action platformer games. Only later did they find out that the game would be set in the League of Legends universe. Conv/rgence: A League of […]
There are dozens of original indie games released each year. These games often take huge risks, presenting us with bizarre characters or worlds, as well as relatable storylines and simple-but-deceptive gameplay. As such, it’s hard to put any of these games into just one category. If you are looking for something new, exciting, dark, or […]
Indie Megabooth announced today that it will be suspending operations due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The organization hosts a travelling showcase of indie games that has promoted titles at shows like the Game Developers Conference and PAX since 2011. Through those events, the group has managed to promote over 700 indie games. The pandemic […]
Indie game developers are hungry. Long denied a fair seat at the table by tech giants that own the few mass distribution channels, many indies are looking for better ways to break into the market. The upcoming launch of Apple Arcade is bringing new light to this issue, prompting developers to reexamine their position in […]
Yacht Club Games announced Shovel Knight Dig today, a spinoff of the indie studios popular sidescroller game. It is coming to Nintendo Switch Shovel Knight debuted in 2014 and became a big hit, selling over 2 million copies. Yacht Club has supported it with massive downloadable content updates that add whole new playable characters and […]
I love Metroidvanias, and indie developers have taken to the genre to create worthy games like Hollow Knight, Guacamelee, and Axiom Verge. Metroidvanias have two primary influences: Metroid and Castlevania (speficically the nonlinear, role-playing game-infused installments in the series that started with Symphony of the Night). Many of the indie Metroidvanias lean on the Metroid […]
Electronic Arts is continuing to expand its partnerships with indie developers. Today, the publisher revealed that it’s adding three new games to its EA Originals program: RustHeart, Lost in Random, and a new game from A Way Out developer Hazelight Studios. The news came from a small panel EA hosted during its EA Play fan […]
EA Originals is a program made to support titles coming from independent studios, placing them in front of gamers that may be interested in something fresh and unique. Sea of Solitude from Jo-Mei Games is the next big EA Originals release, scheduled to arrive on July 5 and usher players through an emotional journey as […]
Digital Suns and 11 Bit Studios announced today that their indie game Moonlighter has sold 500,000 copies. Moonlighter debuted in May. The action role-playing game was first available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. A Switch version followed in November. The game has players managing their own shop during the day. At night, players […]
PC has long been seen as the premier platform for indie games. The vast majority of heralded indies are available on PC, and even multi-platform indies often start out on PC before migrating to consoles. That said, the substantial uptick in popularity of indie games in recent years has led to more and more titles […]