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Blocks That Matter coming to Steam later this month

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Mike Wall in News, PC News | 1 Comment

coming to steam!~

Blocks that Matter was painfully overlooked when it arrived on the Xbox Indie Marketplace earlier this year, but it will get a second chance to show that it matters when it hits Steam later this month. Swing Swing Submarine’s charming 2D platformer/puzzle hybrid will sport a new level editor that will let you share your puzzles with other players as well as Steam Achievements. It will be the fourth XBLIG to make the leap to Steam in recent weeks as it follows in the footsteps of  Defy Gravity, Tobe’s Vertical Adventure and the incredibly successful Cthulhu Saves the World.

Check out our full review of Blocks that Matter or its Steam page.

Summer Uprising schedule revealed, developer chat this Tuesday

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Mike Wall in News, XBLIG News | 1 Comment

Summer Uprising logo

The Indie Games Summer Uprising is a little more than a week away, and while we’ve known for some time what the first 8 games will be, information on the release order has been kept under wraps. The Uprising’s organizers have announced a release schedule for the event, and the floodgates will open with Milkstone’s fantasy platformer, Raventhorne, on August 22.

Monday August 22 – Raventhorne
Tuesday, August 23 – Battle High: San Bruno
Wednesday, August 24 – Cute Things Dying Violently
Thursday, August 25 – T.E.C. 3001
Friday, August 26 – Doom and Destiny
Monday, August 29 – Take Arms
Tuesday, August 30 – SpeedRunner HD
Wednesday, August 31 – Train Frontier Express
Thursday, September 1 – Fan Vote #1
Friday, September 2 – Fan Vote #2

It’s a little strange that Fan Vote and its unimaginatively titled sequel, Fan Vote #2, are coming out on back-to-back days, but we’ve certainly seen wilder things on Xbox Live Indie Games. Oh, right, those are the two yet-to-be decided games that you can vote on right now! The two winners will be revealed during a Twitter developer chat on Tuesday, August 16 at 9 p.m. EST. Fans can ask questions of the organizers and developers by using the hashtag #igsu.

Owlboy demo flapping onto PC August 20, new trailer out now

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Mike Wall in News, PC News, xblig, XBLIG News | 1 Comment

When will those space pirates learn? You just don’t mess with Owlboy unless you want to feel his 270-degree rotating beak of death savagely ripping open their necks. Wait, were we watching the wrong trailer? Okay, replace violent death-bite with charming 2D platforming and throw in some steam punk robot frogs and I think we’re back on the right track. We’ll find out if Owlboy plays as well as it looks when D-Pad Studio releases the demo for PC on August 20. The full game should be landing on PC and Xbox sometime later this year.

It’s a (play) date! Play Monday Night Combat this Friday with Armless Octopus and VVGTV

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Mike Wall in Features, News, XBLA News | 1 Comment

game night logo

The Armless Octopus gang is super pysched to join our friends at VVGTV for an Xbox Live Community Playdate on Friday, August 12 from 8-11 pm EST. Join us for some Friday evening Monday Night Combat (whoa, mind blown). A few random gamers will win some sweet swag like hats and such courtesy of Uber Entertainment. Send an XBL message to one of us about an hour before the event and we’ll do our best to squeeze you in a game.

Master Blud
Daizoren
deeke
Dave Voyles
Saturn III
SawerOfBones
SkrattyBones

Have any questions about the community playdate? Hit up Master Blud on Twitter.

Secret Base giving away 3 awesome retro copies of Tobe’s Vertical Adventure

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Mike Wall in Contests, News, PC News | 1 Comment

Tobe’s Vertical Adventure swung onto Steam last month with some improvements over the already impressive XBLIG version, and Secret Base is celebrating its release by giving away 3 awesome retro physical editions of the game. The retro package is modeled after an old Genesis case and contains a CD with all three Tobe adventures: Tobe’s Vertical Adventure, Tobe’s Hookshot Escape and Tobe’s Great Escape. All you have to do to win the coolest prize ever is post a review of the game on Secret Base’s blog or the Steam Forum. Wait, if you do that, it decreases the odds that we’ll win. On second thought, go about your business as usual and forget we ever brought it up.

Serious Sam Double D gets serious about release with new trailer

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Mike Wall in PC, PC News, xblig, XBLIG News | Leave a comment

Mommy’s Best Games has unleashed a new trailer demonstrating the sheer insanity and absurdity of Serious Sam Double D. Did you see the lava monster on the pogo stick? How about the gigantic gorilla with the circular-saw hand? The enormous hamster with the studded choker and missile launchers built into its torso? Double D will be assaulting PC in August (the Xbox version will be released a few months later), so we should have our chance to eradicate mutant monsters with ridiculous duct-taped instruments of death in a few short weeks. We’ll update you with more details on the specifics of the release as they’re available, but in the meantime, check out our hands-on impressions with this bloodbath.

Dream.Build.Play finalists to be announced August 18, winners to be unveiled at PAX

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Taylor Bliss in News, XBLIG News | Leave a comment

win 40,000!

The top 20 entries of 2011′s Dream.Build.Play competition will be announced on an episode of Major Nelson’s Minute, which premieres on August 18 on the Xbox Live Dashboard. Just a week later, during this year’s PAX Prime, (August 26 through August 28) Microsoft will be announcing the 5 prize winners, who will be sharing the $75,000 bounty and a chance at an XBLA publishing deal.

While only 5 games get to take home the winnings, all 20 games will be playable on the show floor of PAX, with several of the developers in attendance. As any XNA developer can attest, having a game playable at a show that attracts tens of thousands of attendees isn’t such a bad prize either.

Fan voting is open for the final 2 Indie Games Summer Uprising selections

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Mike Wall in xblig, XBLIG News | 4 Comments

Congress recently passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling, but now a new vote has begun that will have an even greater impact on the United States, or dare we say it, the entire world: the selection of the final 2 games in the Indie Games Summer Uprising. The event’s organizers knew it was too important of a decision to be left to stodgy politicians in fine-pressed suits, so they’ve opened the election up to everyone…or at least everyone with a Facebook account. There are plenty of fine games to choose from, so head on over to the Summer Uprising Facebook page to cast your vote by August 15.

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