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IGF Awards present Monaco with the Seamus McNally Grand Prize

The IGF Awards at GDC just wrapped up, and man were they something. From Andy Schatz’s excellent acceptance speech(es!) for Monaco to host Erin Robinson saying “As we all know, the bigger your pixels are, the more indie your game is”, tonight’s ceremony was full of genuinely funny, cool moments.
We’ll have the full list of [Read More …]

GDC Day 1 Roundup: PSN gets Joe Danger, Tower Defense gets Twitter, and more!

Sadly, Bytejacker couldn’t make it to GDC this year (more on that this Thursday). Apparently, though, everyone else on the planet was, resulting in a massive influx in game news, both of the downloadable and indie variety. And hey, that’s totally our thing, man. So here’s a list of the relevant GDC stories from the [Read More …]

Spelunky XBLA screenshots! For looking at!

GDC doesn’t technically start until tomorrow, but Derek Yu decided to kick things off early by posting a few minutes ago the first-ever screenshots from Spelunky’s Xbox Live Arcade release! Waagh!!
Check them out below:

Pretty dramatic departure from the pixel art graphics of the original Spelunky, don’t you think?

Bit.Trip Runner gets its first trailer!

I hope you like running, space worms, pixelated prospectors who shoot fireballs, Meat Boy cameos, and Anamanaguchi, because the trailer for Bit.Trip Runner is here, and it contains all of these things.

The 8 most important games of the Pirate Kart II competition

Games are art. No one is debating that anymore. The few stragglers attempting to claim otherwise were finally silenced when flOwer came out last year and won Best Indie Game from Playboy. But it’s important to look at where the movement began. Obviously, it began with the indies, but let’s be specific:
Games became art [Read More …]

The 8-bit Alliance Tour kicks off tomorrow!

Do you like chiptunes? Do you like chiptunes artists?! Do you like chiptunes artists who we interviewed at Blip Festival?!? Then you should probably get psyched for the 8-bit Alliance Tour, one of the biggest US chiptune tours…ever, actually.
Organized (and headlined) by fantastic chip-and-guitar group Anamanaguchi, the tour also features UK 8-bit breakbeat artist Sabrepulse, [Read More …]

Midweek Madness Steam sale means $2 indie games

Steam is doing another one of their Midweek Madness sales, and this week’s bargains are pretty damn excellent. They’ve marked down six $9.99 (and one $4.99) indie titles to two bucks a pop. The games include Space Giraffe, Gridrunner Revolution, Altitude, Super Laser Racer, Galcon Fusion, Bullet Fusion, and (drumroll) Bob Came In Pieces!
Yeah, between [Read More …]

Gravity Hook HD playable in full online!

A year and a half ago, Adam Atomic and Danny Baranowsky worked together on a game for the first time. That game was Gravity Hook, and you know what? We liked it a lot.
So did Adam and Danny, apparently; at the very least, they liked it enough to lovingly craft a badass remake of it. [Read More …]

Joe Danger (finally) has a trailer, and it does not disappoint

I promise, I’m doing everything in my power to stop this from becoming The Joe Danger Blog (presented by Bytejacker). But if Hello Games keeps pumping out the awesome at their current rate…all I’m saying is I can’t promise anything.
The debut trailer for Joe Danger finally hit today, and it is goooooood. Depending on how [Read More …]

WarioWare D.I.Y. to feature cameos by “famous” developers

WarioWare D.I.Y. is conceptually a very exciting game.  Combining the absurd gameplay and fast pace of a WarioWare title with the anything-is-possible user-generated draw of something like Little Big Planet, it seems like there’s a lot to like about the upcoming DS title. So we got pumped. And have been roughly that pumped for the [Read More …]

Super Meat Boy coming to XBLA (and before anywhere else)!

Well this is surprising. Team Meat’s Super Meat Boy, previously only announced for WiiWare (and Steam), is being digitally distributed one more place: Xbox Live Arcade! Team Meat confirmed to IGN today that the game is en route to the 360, and surprisingly, will be released on XBLA slightly earlier than both WiiWare and Steam. Weird! But [Read More …]

“Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe” shirt consolidates two types of nerdery into one

Alright, full disclosure: that Mario ‘Sleep of Reason’ shirt was great and all, but as it turns out, it’s only the second-best Mario-themed art history shirt available on the internet. This isn’t our faults, though; the real winner had been out of print for months and was completely unavailable.
That is, until recently. Threadless recently restocked [Read More …]

Thretris’ custom Anamanagameboy is gorgeous (and you’ll never have one)

This is badass. Kyle Robinson, better known as hardware customizer (and chip artist) Thretris, has completed his custom Game Boy for Anamanaguchi and woo boy is it a doozy. Check it out in its full splendor below:

How Hello Games literally reinvented the wheel for Joe Danger

If you weren’t aware, Hello Games (developers of the upcoming, downloadable Joe Danger) has been contributing a biweekly column to Edge Online about the tumults and joys of starting an indie game studio. Every single one of them is hilarious and insightful (seriously, check them out), but the one that they put up today is [Read More …]

Watch Dan Paladin create a Castle Crashers boss!

Man, this is fantastic – the video that follows is a sped-up recording of Dan Paladin creating the Painter boss from Castle Crashers. What makes it so striking is that this isn’t just a sketch-to-digital drawing, this is the entire process of him inventing the character right in front of you. Every conceivable aspect of [Read More …]