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PC Gamer’s Big 10 of 2011
A good year brings a handful of bold, even revolutionary games to the PC. A great year, as 2011 is shaping up to be, brings so many that we spend weeks trying to whittle the list down to just 10. In...
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Inside the Indie Fund: a better deal for developers
At a panel at GDC, the team behind the Indie Fund – an experiment in successful indie developers putting funds to their peers – revealed the success, failures, and the first batch of three games that...
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Monaco: an indie game born from depression, roguelikes, and 14-hour workdays
Fair play to Andy Schatz of Pocketwatch games, he’s damn good at marketing for an indie developer. Monaco’s website reads: “CO-OP ACTION STEALTH – PACMAN MEETS HITMAN.” It’s only right to be intrigued...
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The future of indie
Just look at Hawken. If ever there was a game that undermined the notion of what an independently developed project can achieve, it’s Adhesive Games’ mech shooter. Every bone in my body tells me a...
View ArticleMonaco multiplayer movie musters merriment
Top-down indie heist ‘em up Monaco: What’s yours is mine has a new trailer, according to those lovely chaps over at RPS. Soundtracked with an authentic-sounding plinky-plonk piano, it highlights the...
View ArticleQ.U.B.E. recoups Indie Fund investment in four days
Q.U.B.E. is the first project released to be bankrolled by the Indie Fund, an organisation made up of a series of successful indie developers looking to provide hands-off financial support to exciting...
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Eureka! The brightest ideas in indie gaming
Great ideas are exhilarating. When we have them, we turn them over and over in our heads like glassmakers folding molten silica, shaping our glowing gems. They stick to us. But then comes something...
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Monaco pre-orders starting this week
Monaco, the top down indie action stealth game, has been in development for approximately 200 years now. While you’d be forgiven for assuming it was never actually coming out, we’re (finally) starting...
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Monaco designer: “I think stretch goals are bulls***”
In an interview with Penny Arcade Report (via PCGamesN), Monaco designer Andy Schatz shared his thoughts on Kickstarter campaigns and the inclusion of stretch goals—promises made at tiers above the...
View ArticleMonaco trailer introduces you to the infiltration experts
Inspired by this team round-up trailer for top-down co-op heist game Monaco, I’ve started to assemble my own crack squad of international thieves. I’ve already secured “The Foot” – whose freakishly...
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Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine review
Monaco is a neon-blooded marriage of Pac-Man and Thief, a grand tribute both to 1920s silent comedy capers and to modern-day heist movies. It’s Ocean’s Eleven meets Keystone Cops, played out top-down...
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Monaco developer may add two more competitive modes
Thievery’s hard, yo. That’s something Monaco developer Andy Schatz discovered in the process of formulating two new competitive modes for the top-down stealth game. Neither made it to the final...
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PC Gamer US issue #237: The 25 Greatest Shooters of All Time
From PlanetSide to Quake to Team Fortress, the current issue of PC Gamer US is locked and loaded for a countdown of the 25 Greatest Shooters of All Time. Plus, we bring you our review of a brand new...
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Double Fine gets two games backed by Indie Fund
Not content with funding only two games through Kickstarter, Double Fine has received some extra dough from the Indie Fund for two more unannounced games that are currently in development. “I’m really...
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Steam Trading Cards is now live
Just as promised, Steam Trading Cards is now live. The virtual cards can be earned by playing participating games on Steam, trading with other users, or buying on the Steam Marketplace. Complete a set...
View ArticleMonaco level editor now available, features Steam Workshop integration
The Mole’s Workshop, a free set of level editing tools, is now available for all Monaco players. Using simple tools which feature gamepad support (if you’re into that kind of thing), The Mole’s...
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New Black Annex gameplay footage is going to break into your secure facility,...
Black Annex, a lovely indie game working its way through Steam Greenlight right now, is a game of corporate espionage, power brokerage and murder. The dark gameplay and frenetic action seem totally at...
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