Archive for 2013

RimWorld: A Pre-Alpha Story – Part 1 By Keith Turner on October 15th, 2013 at 9:17 am I think RimWorld has set a nice example for other indie developers. If you want your Kickstarter campaign to do exceptionally well, and you aren't a big name in the industry, this is the quality bar you want to reach for. Category: After Action Report, Game Previews 7 comments

XCOM: Enemy Within Interview – The New and the Improved By Adam Solo on October 11th, 2013 at 9:34 am XCOM: Enemy Within brings new maps, new toys and basically new tactical possibilities. But, what about the strategy layer? Was the game improved in that area? Here's what the expansion's lead designer Ananda Gupta had to say about it. Category: Game Previews, Interviews 22 comments

Legions of Steel: The Video Game – The Kickstarter By Adam Solo on October 10th, 2013 at 1:01 pm Studio Nyx is on Kickstarter looking for funds to adapt the sci-fi board game Legions of Steel to Android, iOS and PC platforms. Category: Kickstart 6 comments

XCOM: Enemy Within – A New Enemy Was Revealed Called… By Adam Solo on October 9th, 2013 at 2:01 pm A new rival faction was revealed for XCOM: Enemy Within. A human rival faction. Check then new trailer called "Security Breach". Category: News & Announcements, Videos 32 comments

RimWorld – Sci-Fi Colonization with an AI Storyteller By Keith Turner on October 7th, 2013 at 11:36 am Are you interested in a Firefly, Dune, and Warhammer 40k inspired sci-fi colonization and survival game? If so, Tynan Sylvester and his Ludeon Studios have just the game for you. Category: Kickstart 12 comments

XCOM: Sales, Free Weekend and Enemy Within Pre-Orders By Adam Solo on October 4th, 2013 at 9:26 am 2K Games is doing an XCOM sales event this weekend. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is free for anyone to play until Monday 7th Oct, and XCOM: Enemy Within pre-orders have started. Category: News & Announcements 4 comments

Worlds of Magic – 2nd Kickstarter Campaign By Keith Turner on October 4th, 2013 at 6:07 am Wastelands Interactive has announced a second Kickstarter for their upcoming title, Worlds of Magic. They're offering a playable demo of their alpha battle board this time around. Category: Kickstart 0 comments

X Rebirth New Video – Trading and Mining By Adam Solo on October 2nd, 2013 at 10:56 am Boy, the Egosoft guys aren't kidding, are they! Talking about a realistic economy in space! Well, of what it could be like, at least. Here's a new video showing X Rebirth's take on the matter. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 18 comments

StarDrive Interview: The Past, Present, and Future By Keith Turner on October 1st, 2013 at 9:17 am News appeared in the StarDrive forums that seemed to indicate that a new StarDrive project may actually be in the works. Here's what the developer Daniel DiCicco had to say about it. Category: Interviews 68 comments

Horizon Giveaway Contest – 5 Steam Keys! [RESULTS] By Adam Solo on September 30th, 2013 at 1:45 pm And the winners of the Horizon Beta giveaway contest are...                           Category: Contests 23 comments

Planetary Annihilation Beta Begins By Adam Solo on September 30th, 2013 at 9:51 am Planetary Annihilation, the Total Annihilation inspired by sci-fi RTS from Uber Entertainment, that made it big on Kickstarter about a year ago, has entered the beta stage. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 8 comments

Star Citizen Passes $20M and All Rendered In-Engine Trailer By Adam Solo on September 27th, 2013 at 8:59 am Chris Roberts has passed the 20 million dollar mark in crowd-funding for Star Citizen, his upcoming space trading and combat simulator game for the PC. And, there's a new full in-game engine trailer. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 19 comments

Terminus: City Building in Space – Now on Kickstarter By Keith Turner on September 25th, 2013 at 9:32 am Back in January of 2013, we reported that Harbourgames was attempting to acquire funds for Terminus through Indiegogo. Now, the real-time "classic city-builder" in space re-launches on Kickstarter. Category: Kickstart 16 comments

Horizon Enters Beta and Giveaway Contest – 5 Steam Keys! [CLOSED] By Adam Solo on September 23rd, 2013 at 11:07 am Horizon enters in the beta milestone. To celebrate the event the publisher have sent us 5 Steam keys to giveaway to our loyal readers. Category: Contests, News & Announcements 165 comments

Predestination: Beta First Stage Begins – Fleet Combat By Adam Solo on September 20th, 2013 at 10:18 am Predestination lead developer Brendan Drain sends word that the first of four planned beta stages, focused on fleet combat, is now under way and available to kickstarter backers who signed for the beta. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 11 comments

Elite: Dangerous Video – Only If The Game Was Like This… By Adam Solo on September 18th, 2013 at 10:12 am Frontier Developments has released a video on Elite: Dangerous featuring capital ships and star fighter action. The video was used as part of the composer selection process for the game. Category: Kickstart, Videos 22 comments

Timothy Zahn’s Parallax – A Community Driven 4X Kickstarter By Adam Solo on September 17th, 2013 at 10:55 am Abram Jablonski, the owner/founder of Prototype X Software and sci-fi writer Timothy Zahn are on Kickstarter for a retro-style turn-based space 4X game. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 18 comments