After being caught in the crossfire of THQ’s restructuring plan, three former developers have founded Three Phase Interactive, a new independent studio based in Australia. Paul Baker, Chris Burns, and Drew Morrow are former employees of the Melbourne-based developer Blue Tongue Entertainment. Despite the...

In the two months since Tim Schafer and friends launched the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter campaign, which went on to raise $3.45 million, there’s been a lot of buzz about how Kickstarter is changing the landscape of game development. Is crowd sourcing here to stay? Are we witnessing a true movement in...

If you’re a fan of the old school adventure games, then you’ll pleased to note that the creators of the Space Quest series, Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, have teamed up again and will be developing a brand new game, which they call a  “SPACEVENTURE™” . Though they have not announced much about it,...

In what is possibly one of the greatest coups ever recorded, North Korea seems to have snagged the hottest game of the year and it’s only available inside the country. That’s right, I’m talking about North Korea Tractor Simulator! All joking aside, I find it interesting to see what a country like...

This Kickstarter craze is still going, and I can’t say I’m terribly upset about it. If people make good games, they get funded. End of story. Sometimes people are trying to have a get rich quick scheme, but normally the people of the internet can spot those a mile away. I am quite a fan of the...

Raven Travel Studios is a newly formed indie team that has made a tribute game to the ’80s run-and-gun platformers. It shall be called Cast of the Seven Godsends, and it looks like you’re going to need some pretty quick thinking to keep up with it. It will be available on Windows 7 and Xbox Live...

If you haven’t heard of Mari0, you’ve been missing out. Can you imagine slinging portals as Mario? What better way to spend a day than sending hapless mushrooms through portals to defeat your enemies that you don’t feel like jumping on top of? Last August, this Portal and Mario mash-up...

If you were a mother with a few hundred children, and you somehow misplaced all of them, I assume you’d feel pretty terrible. What’s worse is that they weren’t lost in a local convenient store or a mall, it was in a forest. A dark, damp place with horrendous monsters that wish to cause you...