Host Anthony Carboni reveals your pick for free indie game of the week, and politely asks his dinner guests to talk a little about their upcoming projects. (YouTube video)
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Freeware Game Pick: Super Hypercube (Renaud Bédard)
Super HYPERCUBE is a short puzzle game based on the concept of fitting 3D shapes into a hole in the wall, simply by rotating the cluster of cubes around to find the correct orientation. Instructions are provided for the Xbox 360 controller, although the keyboard can be used to play as well. Use the... Read more
Xbox Live Community Games, XNPlay
Gamerbytes is currently running a couple of articles centered around on the upcoming launch of NXE (New Xbox Experience) and the Xbox Live Community Games feature, with more reviews of Community Club-related stuff to be posted very soon. A new site called XNPlay was also launched by the crew at Retro... Read more
Cletus Clay Lives, Coming to Consoles and PC
It has been announced recently that Anthony Flack is hard at work on his upcoming action-platformer Cletus Clay, which has been in development for several years now. Much like Platypus, all objects, backgrounds and sprites are made out of clay and animated using traditional stop-frame techniques (e... Read more
See also
Links to some of the recent interviews with prolific or high-profile indie game developers of today:
Destructoid Interview: Edmund McMillen (text) Not a week goes by without the mention of Edmund McMillen...
Destructoid Interview: Edmund McMillen (text) Not a week goes by without the mention of Edmund McMillen...
Results for the 14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition are out, with Violet, Nightfall and Everybody Dies grabbing top honors this year. All competition entries (and their respective interpreter...
Three familiar AGS adventure game developers chat with Anthony Carboni about their indie game picks: Dreamagination's Dirty Split (possibly the best freeware adventure game release this year), Francisco...
This week on Free Indie Rapid Fire: Andreas Zecher's Mr. Bounce, Alex May and Rudolf Kremers' Dyson, Edmund McMillen's Grey Matter and Bernie's Treasure Hunter Man. (YouTube video)
Next week on Bytejacker...
Next week on Bytejacker...
Oct 22 Remote Impact
[Just a final reminder for the IGF student and mobile competitions for 2009, which are finishing up this weekend and Monday respectively - good luck to all the entrants, both competitions have had some...
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!['To Do: Finish Any Game' [Game Design]](/images/news/42301.jpg)
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OK, gang. I think the fun is over. Many of you pointed out that the Golden Lancer for Gears of War 2 is now either 99999 points or won't download. I tried to cue it up again and got the can't-download...
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This is big enough to warrant an update I think. Reader Shawn B. found, in the great Xbox Live Loot Bonanza, that you can in fact get your gold plated Gears of War 2 Lancer, for free, off XBL via the web...
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I spoke to Professor Jim Whitehead of UC Santa Cruz yesterday, and at the end of our conversation he brought up the 2009 Foundations of Digital Games conference. FDG will run from 26 - 30 April, 2009...
![[Updated] Banjo-Kazooie Early, CoD:WaW Extras on XBL via the Web [Banjo Kazooie]](/images/news/42291.jpg)
Alert reader Chris J. just sent this in. Banjo-Kazooie (the original) officially hits Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday, but it's been available for early download for those who preordered Banjo-Kazooie: Nut...
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Alert reader Chris J. just sent this in. Banjo-Kazooie (the original) officially hits Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday, but it's been available for early download for those who preordered Banjo-Kazooie: Nut...
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Alert reader Chris J. just sent this in. Banjo-Kazooie (the original) officially hits Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday, but it's been available for early download for those who preordered Banjo-Kazooie: Nut...