Home, indie developer Benjamin Rivers' pixelated horror game/narrative experiment, will be released for iOS this Thursday, June 20, according to the game's official website.
The iOS version, which Rivers teased late last year, has been "reprogrammed almost entirely from scratch," according to a press release from the developer, and includes new text, content and a new area to explore. It will be compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, and the universal app will cost $2.99, the same price as its Steam counterpart. A Mac version will follow this summer. Both it and the Windows PC version will receive the iOS additions.
Check out the launch trailer above to get a sense of the portable horror that awaits on iOS. For more on the game, be sure to check out Polygon's review of Home's...
Shadowrun Returns, the Kickstarted revival of the role-playing series, will be released on Windows PC, Mac, iOS and Android July 25, developer Harebrained Schemes announced today.
The studio said in April that it planned to launch the game in June. It will ship a Linux version at some point after the aforementioned date.
Harebrained will release a full suite of level editing tools along with the game, allowing players to completely remake the existing game or use it as a jumping-off point for their own creations.
"Players can start from what we have created and build on it, revise it or use it as a starting point for completely new stories," said Jordan Weisman, creator of Shadowrun and the founder of Harebrained Schemes, in a press release today. "I believe we are the first to...
Blizzard has announced tweaks to its forthcoming collectible card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.
The free-to-play game, currently in beta for Windows, Mac and iOS, now offers quests that can be completed to earn gold for card purchases. There is also a new leveling system allowing regular players to gain more experience points. A friends-list has been added and the frames of cards themselves have been redesigned to distinguish each class from one another.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is a Magic: The Gathering style game featuring characters and classes from the MMO. It begins with around 300 cards, with extra packs available to earn or buy. The game was first announced at PAX earlier this year and is due for a full launch later this year.
The Cave, Double Fine's modern adventure game staring a large cast of mismatched characters and an anthropomorphic cave, is headed to iOS this summer, a representative from the developer confirmed to Polygon.
According to a hands-on report from TouchGen, the mobile version remaps the control scheme to focus on taps instead of a virtual stick for movement and adds swipes for jumps. The Cave is already available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, Windows PC, Mac and Linux.
For more on the game, be sure to read Polygon's review for The Cave.
Akaneiro: Demon Hunters, Spicy Horse's action role-playing game take on Red Riding Hood set in feudal Japan, is available now for Windows PC, Mac and Linux through Steam Early Access.
Players can hop into the early version of the game for $9.99, and the developer will be introducing new features and soliciting player feedback on the way to its official release. The $9.99 Early Access Starter Pack grants players entry into the game as well as exclusive items like 25,000 worth of in game "Karma Shards" currency and several consumables that boost Critical Chance, Defense, Power and other stats.
"In order for Akaneiro to reach the potential we want for quality as well as reaching a broader audience, we have made the game free-to-play with in-game purchases available for players who have...
Northway Games' Incredipede is on sale for half price on Steam for the next week, and the Linux version is now free on the game's website, the studio announced today.
The physics-based puzzle game, which was nominated for a 2013 Independent Games Festival award, is available on Windows PC, Mac and Linux. It regularly costs $9.99 on Steam, but the PC and Mac versions are available for $4.99 from today through June 24.
All three versions of Incredipede are more expensive if purchased through the game's website: It's on sale for $9.99 instead of $14.99, a 33 percent discount. But buying Incredipede there will net you a cross-platform DRM-free copy that is redeemable on Steam, and Northway Games will donate half the profits to two open-source projects that the studio says were "very...
Memoria is a point-and-click adventure that seeks to explore the vicissitudes of time, memory and history.
It explores two timelines, one in an epic world, in which Princess Sadja seeks to make her mark on destiny. Another, 500 years after the ambitious young woman's era is set in a quieter age, and features a young man, Geron, who explores the obscure tale of an ancient princess who failed to make much of an impact.
Characters in both tales struggle with issues of time and recollections. A magical wand has lost its memory, the princess is obsessed with the notion of legacy, the young man is perplexed by history's inherent contradictions.
At E3, lead designer Kevin Mentz showed Polygon a puzzle in which the princess is locked in a room, and must find a way out by making use of the...
Peter Molyneux's studio 22Cans released Curiosity: What's Inside The Cube as an experiment to gather information that could be used in the development of its upcoming god game for touch devices, Godus.
Speaking to Polygon, Molyneux said the reason the studio made Curiosity was so it could understand how consumers use touch devices like the iPad and smartphones, when they use these devices and what they use them for. Part of the rationale was to look at people's "play profile" and allow the ways people interact with the devices to dictate the kind of games the studio makes.
"It turns out that some people interact with the device as a way to relax — it's a way to calm themselves, and you see it from the profile of the way they play," Molyneux said. "They'll play first thing in the...
Jane Jensen hails from that generation of game designers who wrapped story together with the storage, animation and video advances of the mid-1990s, amassing a significant following through publisher Sierra Online.
Her best-known work is the Gabriel Knight series of point-and-click adventures that melded real-world detective fiction with quasi-supernatural phenomena like voodoo, the Knights Templar and freemasonry. Now she's back with a new adventure called Moebius, funded by Kickstarter fans of her work, as well as "casual gamers who are looking for deeper stories".
The game features central character Malachi Rector, an antiques specialist and sleuth with a photographic memory. He's sent to Venice to investigate the murder of a young woman, and is soon embroiled in a conspiracy...
In a cramped makeshift theater at E3 today, representatives of Telltale Games showed off playable sections of the company's forthcoming "400 Days" DLC for The Walking Dead.
The download offers five stories, each centered on different characters situated in the environs of a Georgia truck-stop. 400 Days' timeline straddles events in the first series, and connects with Season 2. Decisions made in Season 1 do affect the DLC, and decisions made in the DLC carry over to Season 2, although it is possible to play any elements of the story independently of one another.
The five stories, taken together, are about equal in length to a single episode of The Walking Dead. They can be played in any order and, according to a spokesperson for Telltale, "you can then figure out how they all...
Zenimax Online's upcoming multi-platform MMO The Elder Scrolls Online will segregate PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users to their own servers, while PC and Mac users will remain on a single shared server, the studio's Paul Sage told Polygon.
Sage, who works as creative director on the studio's MMO offering, stated that despite recently announcing the title would hit both next-gen platforms as well as Windows PC and Mac, the game will feature three separate server environments to ensure fairness in PvP across all systems as those on PC and Mac will use a mouse and keyboard while console users will have only a controller.
Describing the overall focus on next-gen games development particularly apparent during this year's E3, Sage said the development of titles for Windows PC remains...
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut is no longer a Wii U exclusive, Square Enix announced today. Players on Xbox 360, PS3, Mac and PC will get a return visit to the amber-drenched world of Adam Jensen when the game launches later this year.
The second-screen functionality designed for the Wii U's tablet controller will be ported to Xbox SmartGlass and PS Vita, though how PC and Mac players will take advantage of it is unclear. The expanded version of the game, first announced in March of this year, includes the previously released Missing Link DLC and a new mission, Tong's Rescue.
Telltale Games has released a trailer for 400 Days, a new episode for its critically acclaimed adventure series The Walking Dead.
The downloadable episode features five different stories, each focusing on a different character or set of characters.
Last night at the Sony E3 press conference, it was revealed that The Walking Dead: 400 Days would be coming to PlayStation Vita with a bundle that included the complete first season of the game, along with some bonus content. In addition to the Vita and PlayStation 3, 400 Days will also be coming to Windows and Mac PCs, iOS and Xbox 360.
Update: The game's official site has been updated to explain that choices made by players in Season One will be reflected in 400 Days. Furthermore, decisions made in 400 Days will influence the events in...
Game developer Lars Simkins would like you to experience a sense of wonder. And accomplishment. Maybe even a laugh or two.
The one-man show behind upcoming open-world role-playing game Frontiers, Simkins is attempting to share his love of the unknown. The developer admittedly avoids long hikes, but loves to hop fences and scout unfamiliar territory; he and his wife make an effort to explore rainforests, especially in Costa Rica, every few years.
"Novelty is like a drug to me so I get a little buzz from seeing around the next corner or looking in that next building," Simkins said. "If the places I'm looking are beautiful or interesting in their own right, then that adds a lot to my experience ... really I'm like that rat with the hard drug wired into its brain, hitting the lever for...
The Novelist is as much an exercise in emotional resilience as it is in storytelling.
Creator and industry veteran Kent Hudson demoed his latest project to Polygon during Indie Press Day, an event held in San Francisco for developers to showcase their in-progress work. According to Hudson, the game is his attempt to create a story where plot is not the reward. At its onset, The Novelist is the tale of Dan Kaplan, a writer struggling to complete his book. Or maintain a relationship with his wife Linda and his son. Or both. The game allows players to decide what they believe is most important and act accordingly. Chapters fall in a different order each time. Only relationships carry through to each new segment, which ultimately affects the game's ending.
This free-flowing format has...
Throw Trucks With Your Mind is a game that requires you to flex muscles you didn't know you had.
Creator Lat Ware demoed to the game to Polygon at this year's Indie Press Day, which took place in San Francisco. Labeled a "first-person thinker," Throw Trucks With Your Mind works by using an EEG headset that looks for a spike in the brain's beta waves. It hones in on two very specific concepts: focus and calm.
"Focus is fundamentally the act of giving one thing your attention and taking away everything else," Ware explained to us. "People focus in different ways. Some focus visually [and] stare at the dot of the center of the screen, [others] listen to sounds like nearby conversation. I have one friend that is very ADD, and the only way he can raise his focus is by computing prime...
Tower defense strategy game Anomaly 2 is now available on the Mac App Store, priced at $14.99.
11 bit studios' sequel to 2011's Anomaly Warzone Earth introduces a tower defense versus tower offense asymmetrical multiplayer mode, wherein one side places immobile towers, while the other employs mobile units. The game is set on a near-future frozen Earth overrun by aliens, with the single player campaign employing a ‘tower offense' style of strategic play. The PC version of Anomaly 2 launched on May 15.
Notoriously, game development involves long hours, high-pressure deadlines and demanding, inexperienced bosses. But a new investigation by Kotaku has revealed allegations of bullying, sexism and mismanagement at one development-house.
The Kotaku report ‘Investigation: A Video Game Studio From Hell' details anonymous complaints and anecdotes from nine people associated with Trendy Entertainment, the company behind tower-defense/MOBA Dungeon Defenders 2, which currently employs around 45 people.
Stieglitz is reported as berating staff publicly and bizarre management techniques
The complaints include allegations of gender discrimination, in which female employers are said to be paid less than men with similar experience and skills. Many of the stories focus on company president Jeremy...
World of Warcraft will be receiving a new type of raid called Flexible Raiding in upcoming content update Patch 5.4 to provide a better experience for social groups and casual WoW gamers, according to an update posted on Battle.net.
The new raid type will cater to smaller guilds who like to take as many members as possible on raids and social groups consisting of friends and family. Currently, World of Warcraft offers three types of raids: Normal, Heroic and Raid Finder. The new Flexible Raid system's difficulty will be between Raid Finder and Normal difficulty and will support groups of 10-25 players.
"During the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, the 10-player Normal difficulty served these groups of players pretty well, but the unification of 10-player and 25-player into a single...
Sid Meier's Civilization 5, Firaxis Games' turn-based strategy game, will be free-to-play and heavily discounted this weekend on Steam and at other online retailers, the developer announced today.
The free-to-play weekend on Steam began at 1 p.m. ET today and will last until Sunday, June 9, at 4 p.m. ET. Civilization 5 is also on sale on Steam for $7.49 (regularly $29.99), a 75 percent discount effective until Monday, June 10. Other Civilization 5-related 75 percent off sales include the Babylon add-on for $1.29 (regularly $4.99), the Gods and Kings expansion for $7.49 (regularly $29.99) and the Gold Edition of the game, which includes several add-on packages, for $12.49 (regularly $49.99). The upcoming Brave New World expansion is now available for pre-order for $26.99 (regularly...
Amazon today launched a storefront dedicated to indie games, along with a raft of promotional deals.
The Indie Games Store is a new category nested in the Digital Video Games Store. It features the likes of Don't Starve, FTL and The Bridge.
In an Amazon blog post, technical evangelist Peter Heinrich explained that the initiative is designed to "specifically help indie game developers with promoting their PC, Mac, and browser-based games while helping gamers discover a large and growing selection of innovative indie games."
He added, "Powerhouse game studios don't hold a monopoly on inventiveness or creativity, and some of the best games of all time were created on a shoestring by two or three people with a shared vision. It's hard to get noticed, though. If you're an indie game...
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