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Ludum Dare 28 winners have been announced
The winners for the 28th Ludum Dare game jam and competition were announced earlier in the week. Held from December 13th to the 16th, Ludum Dare 28 tasked developers with creating a game around the theme "You Only Get One". Over two-thousand games were entered into both the competition and the game jam. Developers partaking in the competition had only 48 hours to develop their game and could only work alone. Participants in the jam were allowed to group up, given an extra 24 hours, and could use outside assets, within their final game.The winner of Best Overall Game for the competition was awarded to One Take by Daniël Haazen. In One Take players, must film a sequence for a movie in just one take. After winning, Haazen has announced that he will be developing a post-compo version.As for the game jam, the Best Overall winner is Titan Souls, by Mark Foster, David Fenn, and Andrew Gleeson. In Titan Souls, players must use just one arrow to slay four mighty titans.5 things you should know about from this year’s CES
By Joel Brodie
Another CES in Las Vegas has come and gone, and I have opted to skip the festivities. Maybe it's because the one year I did CES in Vegas it was so crowded that I had to wait three hours for a monorail (there were no taxis), and even longer for blackjack table. Maybe it's that after staring 10,000 versions of the same flat screen TV, my mind turns to jelly. Or maybe I'm a homebody.Thankfully, the rest of tech press don't mind consumer product overload. Here are five cool game trends or products to come out of CES this year. On the whole, 2014 could be a good year for games.Free Games and Sales: To the Moon, Amoebattle and more!
By Joe Jasko
Here's a question for all you deal hunters out there: how long does it usually take from the time you see a great new gaming sale pop up on the internet to the time you hit that enticing "purchase" button? Are you more of an impulse buyer who immediately picks up something the second you see it? Or are you a bit more cautious, and prefer to mull it over for a bit before deciding one way or another?Well I'll tell you what: I've always considered myself to fall under the latter category, as the type of person who would wait to the last possible second before scooping up the hottest new gaming deal. But that was until this week, that is, when so many amazing new deals and indie gaming bundles began cropping up online and forced me to blindly spend all of my money before I even had a second to realize what I was doing. But that's okay, because the new games I got made it so, so worth it."And so if there are any other deals going on this weekend that I may have missed due to my lightning-fast online purchases, be sure to point them out for everyone down in the replies!Game of Thrones Ascent: After a year of success, a mobile future looms
By Nick Tylwalk
Disruptor Beam got a pretty nice present from Facebook just before the holidays. It came in the form of Facebook's games team naming Game of Thrones Ascent a staff pick as one of the top games to debut on the social network in 2013.Though Game of Thrones Ascent isn't just a Facebook game since it's playable through more than one site (and will be headed to mobile, which we'll get to in a bit), the nod was still a significant one. For starters, it served as a validation that high quality games can succeed on the network even at a time when the total number of people is down from its peak a few years ago.It also helped reinforce the idea that Disruptor Beam is doing things right when it comes to its story-driven, highly social take on Westeros. Ideally, it serves as a way for hardcore Game of Thrones fans to be able to interact with their favorite fantasy world, an attractive way for core gamers to get compelling gameplay in bite-sized chunks, and as a "gateway drug" for people who know the IP but have yet to dive into the books or the HBO television series.That's a tall order, but as Disruptor Beam CEO Jon Radoff told Gamezebo in a recent phone conversation, the game does indeed seem to be reaching all three audiences.Warhammer Video Games: The Kitchen Sink Approach
By Steven Strom
Video games are so hot right now. Specifically, games with digital cards that fight each other and multiplayer online battle arenas.MMOs are quite popular as well I hear (at least developers continue to think so), and turn-based strategy games like XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Fire Emblem: Awakening proved that when people say they want more games in that glorious genre, they don't actually mean more shooters.These genres can't possibly have anything in common, you say. They're all such very unique snowflakes. You'd be wrong, of course. What they have in common is war: the eternal war of the Warhammer franchise from Games Workshop, to be exact.Toki Tori 2 killed Two Tribes
By Jim Squires
Game development is a tough business, and it's one where the models are always changing. For example, the old model of "delay a game to get it right" can only work for so long until your costs drastically start to outstrip your earnings potential. Such was the case for Toki Tori 2.Originally slated for a Spring 2012 release, the game didn't see the light of day for another year; first on the Wii U in April 2013, and then on Steam in July. This delay, combined with lackluster sales, has forced Two Tribes to close shop on its existing development company, Two Tribes B.V."When Toki Tori 2 ended up taking way longer than expected and not achieving the sales we needed, it basically took the company down with it," reads a blog post on the company's website. "There's a lot to learn from what went wrong and what we could have done better."19 Games to Survive the Polar Vortex
By Jim Squires
Have you stepped outside today? GOOD GOD, WHY?!?! It's terribly cold outside, and there are plenty of things you could be doing to pass the time indoors. For example: play video games that remind you of just how bitterly cold it is out there.Grab a cup of hot cocoa, run some hot water so your pipes don't freeze, and grab a controller. Nothing beats the bad weather quite like a handful of great video games.IGF’s 2014 Main Competition finalists are in
By Joe Jasko
The 16th annual Independent Games Festival has unveiled their complete list of Main Competition finalists for their 2014 showcase, and oh are there finalists! SO. MANY. FINALISTS. This year they have dozens of finalists and honorable mentions from the following six main categories: Excellence in Visual Art; Excellence in Narrative; Excellence in Design; Excellence in Audio; the Nuovo Award; and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize.A quick glance at the list will show you that Simogo's Device 6 took the nominations completely by storm, literally landing a finalist spot or honorable mention in every single one of the big awards categories (heck, it was even Gamezebo's own #2 game of 2013, so you know it's a good one). Other finalists include some other fan favorites over the last year, like The Yawhg, Don't Starve, The Stanley Parable, and Papers, Please."The actual voting for the finalists will begin on February 18, with the winners being announced a month later on March 19 at the San Francisco Moscone Convention Center in the middle of GDC 2014. You can keep scrolling down to see the full list of finalists and honorable mentions in each of the six Main Competition categories.Do you agree with all of the IGF nominations this year? Who do you think will take home the top accolades in 2014? Be sure to sound off in the replies!