Posted in September 6, 2012 ¬ 9:27 amh.Craig Stern
Interesting news, folks! Epic Banana Software has announced DataJack, a third-person isometric cyberpunk infiltration-focused action RPG. Did you catch all of that? Don’t worry; here’s the developer description to clarify: DataJack is an upcoming 2D cyberpunk stealth action / RPG game which has been under development for four years. Set in the year 2030, following […]
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Posted in September 5, 2012 ¬ 9:59 amh.Craig Stern
The latest in the Choice of Games line, Way Walkers: University (last discussed here), has now been released. In a land were science and magic are the same, you are one of the few born with Extrasensory Abilities–and you dream of attending the most prestigious metaphysical university on the Continent. There, you can discover not […]
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Posted in September 4, 2012 ¬ 9:31 amh.Craig Stern
Hello, everyone! With Labor Day behind us, it’s back to laboring at the old Indie RPG News mill. To get us back into the swing of things, here is a little nugget I’ve been sitting on: Harmonia Online, described as “an MMO with the strategic interplay of a turn-based strategy game.” The plot is a […]
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Posted in August 31, 2012 ¬ 3:01 pmh.Craig Stern
This is a guest perspective by Greg Lobanov about the new Steam game approval process “Greenlight.” Valve’s press release, posted yesterday, states: “Steam Greenlight allows developers and publishers to post information and media about their game in an effort to convince the Community that the game should be released on Steam. Greenlight piggybacks on Steam […]
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Posted in August 31, 2012 ¬ 10:59 amh.Craig Stern
A few minutes of browsing the Android marketplace reveals another mobile RPG I’ve never come across before: Forgotten Tales RPG by British developers Central Bytes. I can’t seem to find mention of a narrative anywhere in the game’s description, and actually playing the game just drops you into the world with no exposition or explanation. […]
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Posted in August 30, 2012 ¬ 10:09 amh.Craig Stern
We have another Zelda-alike on deck here, folks! Ackk Studios has been hard at work on Two Brothers, a Zelda-style action adventure game with graphics modeled in large part on the capabilities of the Game Boy. Also, it is not a beer company. Here’s the premise: You take on the role of Roy Guarder, a […]
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Posted in August 29, 2012 ¬ 3:42 pmh.Craig Stern
Level Up Labs has just released the Gold Edition of Defender’s Quest. The demo is updated, and so is the game. You can check out our video preview of the game right here.
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Posted in August 29, 2012 ¬ 9:12 amh.Craig Stern
It has come to my attention that there is a new, squad-based tactics roguelike in development by Worthless Bums by the name of Steam Marines. Let’s put aside for the moment the fact that they have the best studio name I have ever heard, and look at what Worthless Bums are up to with this […]
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Posted in August 28, 2012 ¬ 10:29 amh.Craig Stern
William Fisher of WRF Studios writes in to announce Bloodlust, a vampire-themed action RPG he’s working on in the Unreal engine. The premise: Varic and Vista, two silent, dark, and solitary “ShadowHunters” find themselves resurrected into a lost city terrorized by the all-powerful “Emperor” Ranior, a monstrous vampire lord. Haunted by visions of darkness and […]
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Posted in August 27, 2012 ¬ 9:00 amh.Craig Stern
With the recent release of an alpha demo for Underrail, I decided to go ahead and give the game a shot. It took a bit of tinkering to get it working*, but I did, and recorded my first impressions playing the game. Check it out: The short of it: if you liked Fallout and Fallout […]
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