Shovel Knight Reveal Trailer

The magic of the 8-bit era is about to return with authority this fall. On March 14th, Yacht Club Games announced its Kickstarter campaign to fund its debut classic-style sidescroller, Shovel Knight, which the company describes as “a groundbreaking … Read More

Shadowrun Returns Gameplay Footage Released

Washington-based indie studio Harebrained Schemes has released footage from its upcoming 2D turn-based RPG title Shadowrun Returns, the first look at gameplay since its initial Kickstarter campaign in April 2012, which raised more than $1.8 million dollars over its $400,000 … Read More

Review+Interview: Banner Saga Factions

The Banner Saga is a mature tactics game brought to us by Stoic Studio, an indie group comprised of ex-BioWare veterans. The game trilogy got some major attention earlier last year when it surpassed its … Read More

Games on the Rise: Race the Sun

(Video preview by Official Stuff Plus)

As an industry veteran at Raven Software, Aaron San Filippo had worked on a number of AAA titles including (but not limited to) Singularity, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Call of Duty: Modern … Read More

Meriwether: An American Epic

Sortasoft, LLC launched a Kickstarter campaign on November 29th, 2012, hoping to receive $35,000 for their historically-inspired RPG, Meriwether: An American Epic.  Their project focuses on recreating the adventures of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led the Corps of … Read More

A Small Chat with Calvin French, Creator of ‘The Real Texas’

What happens when you mix The Legend of Zelda with Ultima 6? Indie game developer Calvin French answered that question with the creation of The Real Texas, a game that’s been five years in the making. The Real Texas is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux PCs over at his site. We sat down and had a small chat with him…

Q1.  Why did you decide to make this game?  How long did it take to develop?  Has this become your “day job?”

Calvin French: The game started as an experiment with a user interface system. So I originally had in mind to just create something very simple. However it quickly expanded from there. It took about 5 years all told to make, and I’d say until about year 2 or 3 there wasn’t really a “master plan.” In the end I was able to pull a lot of different threads together into something I hope is meaningful and also makes a certain amount of logical sense. Read More

Ouya console launch to include Final Fantasy III

Square Enix is getting on board the Ouya train and bringing Final Fantasy III with them to the $99 Kickstarter-funded console when it launches. That means it’ll be the first time gamers outside of Japan can play FFIII (in HD, … Read More