Category: Indie Games News

Jason Aldred’s Galencia Coming to Steam 3pm UK Time Today!

We just received some fantastic News from Jason Aldred a few minutes ago. Everyone’s favourite C64 Shoot ’em up Galencia is coming to Steam today! Paulo Garcia wrote a full game review back in early January which you can read again here. Everyone at Vitno HQ have been putting the game through it’s paces, and we are delighted to let…

CPCRetroDev 2018 – More than 1.500€ in prizes for the best Amstrad CPC 464 games

It is always exciting to hear about the beginning of a new edition of CPCRetroDev. The 6th edition of the retro game creation contest of the University of Alicante has been announced and set to start receiving submissions. The Amstrad CPC 464 game developers will have until October 31st to send their entries. Although promoted by the University of Alicante and…

MindSeize: 2D action-adventure launches on Kickstarter!

Finnish development studio Kamina Dimension has launched a Kickstarter campaign for it’s new action-adventure game, MindSeize. In this new indie title, players assume the role of a private investigator on the hunt for members of a criminal organisation known as ‘The Ascended’, an enigmatic cult that intends to transcend the boundaries of mere mortality. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1708957978/mindseize?ref=project_link In a bid to bring an…

Afterworld by Mattias Gustavsson, An Old Dungeon Crawler Project from 2014, May See a 2018 Release!

Mattias Gustavsson recently shared some interesting News on Facebook about a game called Afterworld. Even though this is the first time I have heard about this project, after a bit of investigating, it seems that this isn’t new News at all, as Mattias started work on the project way back in 2014. The game is much inspired by an old…

Saboteur 1, 2 and 3 Coming to the Nintendo Switch Console

We covered Clive Townsend’s upcoming Saboteur 3 back in June, which I am sure you are all very excited to hear about. It seems there is more good News on the horizon, with an announcement on Facebook not long ago by SimFabric Studio that Sabotuer will be heading it’s way to the Nintendo Switch console. The Switch version will be…

Blazing Chrome: a new, retro-themed run ‘n gun shooter!

Gamers looking for some old-school, hardcore run and gun shooting action would do well to take a look at Blazing Chrome, a new indie game title in development by Joymasher. Inspired by such quintessential run ‘n gun shooters as Contra III: The Alien Wars and Metal Slug, Joymasher certainly appears to be distilling the essence from some of the genre’s…

Aggelos, A new Retro Action RPG, Heavily Inspired by Wonder Boy Available to Purchase on Steam

I recently received an email from one of our readers who asked us… “Why don’t we feature more Indie Games?” This is a good question, and in the past we have in fact featured a few Indie titles and Steam releases we thought were fitting. However, over time, these kinda got pushed to the back of the queue. As most…

IGN: First Details on the Intellivision Reboot Console

IGN has published an article about the Intellivision Reboot Console, where Intellivision Entertainment president, Tommy Tallarico, put light on some details about the console, games, and accessories. About the games, a possible initial line up might include classic games like Shark! SharK!, Astro Smash, Tron: Deadly Discs, Biplanes, Snafu, Major League Baseball, Pitfall!, and Night Stalker. Interesting to see that Intellivision president states…

Sega Genesis/Mega Drive programming contest in RetroEuskal 2018

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis!),  the awesome people at RetroAcción are organizing a programming contest. The participants can develop a video game of any genre and complexity. Games that are closer to be considered a finished product, will be more appreciated. Very ambitious games will be considered but the object of the contest is to have more…

MSXDev’18 4th contestant is a graphic adventure game!

MSXDev’18 recently received its 4th entry, C.C.R.: Anexo 1, El Algoritmo, a graphic adventure where you play the role of a programmer who wants to jump off a building (We hope the developer of the game is ok!). Your task is to try to find out why he is doing that, what’s happening and who this mysterious character is. In the game, you can…