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Greenlight Spotlight Vol. 4
June 3, 2013 | Frank StrevaMy previous few Greenlight articles focused primarily on games with active crowd-funding campaigns. Most of those campaigns are over now, so let’s take a quick look at the results: Among the Sleep was struggling for a while there, but … Read More
Valve Greenlights Six More Games
May 22, 2013 | Frank StrevaContinuing Valve’s recent push towards more frequent, smaller waves of games to make the Greenlight process faster, six new titles have been Greenlit. This time around we have Bleed, Game Dev Tycoon, The Legend, Legends of Eisenwald, RIOT, and … Read More
Monaco: One Vault at a Time
May 9, 2013 | Kramer SolinskyMonaco is an action game that gives you and up to three friends the opportunity to break out of jails and rob banks or rich old men. While the game attempts to give you the feel of … Read More
Greenlight Spotlight: Kickstarter Edition
April 30, 2013 | Frank StrevaBefore I get to the real meat of this article, it’s time for a quick Greenlight update. As I reported, 18 games have been Greenlit since my previous article. Of the games I featured in the last Greenlight Spotlight, … Read More
Sixth Wave of Greenlit Titles Announced
April 18, 2013 | Frank StrevaToday, Valve announced the sixth set of games and software to make it through the Steam Greenlight process. This set includes 20 items in total, with 18 games and two pieces of software:
- Agarest: Generations of War
- Angry … Read More
Steam Greenlight Spotlight
April 14, 2013 | Frank StrevaEven though Valve seems pretty indie-friendly, actually getting your game onto Steam can be a mysterious, arcane process. If you look around, you’ll find a lot of horror stories from indie devs about how they were repeatedly rejected from … Read More
Eric Provan Interview
April 2, 2013 | Zebulon RogersThree weeks ago we took a look at indie game Spate, a surrealist 2.5D platformer from designer and animator Eric Provan. This week I talk with the developer about his beginnings in the industry and pick his brain about what the game … Read More
Shovel Knight Reveal Trailer
March 27, 2013 | Zebulon RogersThe 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
Unknown Worlds Out $30,000 Due To Steam Key Fraud
March 18, 2013 | Frank StrevaUnknown Worlds Entertainment reported that they requested that Valve deactivate 1,341 Steam keys for their FPS/RTS hybrid Natural Selection 2. Anyone who had purchased one of these keys will now have their “Play” option replaced with “Buy Again,” and … Read More
Review: Driftmoon
March 17, 2013 | Patrick McDowell
Driftmoon is a quaint little RPG released by Finnish developer Instant Kingdom. This title has been in the works for a long time, the website claims seven years, and it was part of Steam’s … Read More