Indies

Nintendo will air a new Indie World Showcase tomorrow. We have the details below. A brand new Indie World Showcase from Nintendo will air tomorrow at 11:00 am central. It will be “roughly” 20 minutes long and feature updates, reveals, and announcements. Only indie games will be featured as usual. What will be shown? Honestly, we have no clue. its harder to guess what will be shown in Indie World Showcases than it is Nintendo Directs. And thats saying a…

It’s no secret that Sony often tries to be a home for many Indie games, as all of the big three tend to do. But now Sony is unveiling a new program to help fast track Indie games to hit the Playstation platform easier than their competition.   “Greg Rice, Head of PlayStation Creators” It is our continued goal to make PlayStation the best place to publish and play games of all shapes and sizes. Over the past couple of…

The following games were announced during the December 2021 presentation: Sea of Stars From the team behind The Messenger, this flashy pixelated RPG brings in modernized elements for a fun, yet challenging experience. Travel through several locales by walking, swimming, and climbing cliffs, and build your party. Launches on Nintendo Switch during Holiday 2022. Aliisha – The Oblivion of Twin Goddesses Traverse through temples in beautiful environments with two sisters. Each sister controls differently, with one using motion controls, and…

E3 2021 is over! Was it the best E3 ever? Nope. Was it fun? Yep. But, who won? Did anyone win? Let’s talk about who the “winner” of E3 is! E3 2021 was alright. It wasn’t the best E3 ever. It wasn’t even the best game related event this year (those State of Plays and the Dragon Quest event rocked) but it did offer some surprises and delightful games. Xbox and Nintendo did good. Ubisoft and Square Enix were not…

Nintendo had an Indie World Showcase video today! What was shown off? Check out the video below and then please come back here for some thoughts on today’s Indie reveals. Some good looking games were shown during the Indie World Showcase today. I wouldn’t say that this video was as mind blowing as some previous Indie showcases were but it was still pretty good. For me, the standout games in the video were Calico (out today), Spelunky 1 and 2,…

Direct from Shuhei Yoshida on the Playstation Blog: Hi everyone! As some of you may have noticed, I have long been a big fan of indie games, and ever since I was appointed as Head of Indies Initiative for PlayStation in November the last year, I have been working closely with all departments at Sony Interactive Entertainment to elevate our efforts to help make indie developers’ lives easier and their titles shine in this super competitive videogame market. I’m pleased…

So the Indie world showcase has come and gone, here is a breakdown of what was announced. Overall I think a decent showing with a few standouts but nothing earth shattering right now. Clearly some great filler games coming this year with almost all of them coming to Switch console first.

Last week, I was going to write about third party games. Instead, I wrote about the Adventure games coming to the Switch. This week…well, I have to admit I’m starting to wonder if the Switch even needs third party games! Don’t get wrong: it would be very nice to see more third party games come to the Switch, however, have you seen how many games came out for the system last week? And this week? Plus we have Super Mario…

Nintendo had a special Nintendo Switch Nindies Showcase video on youtube today. In the video, they showed off Indie games that are coming to the Nintendo Switch this year. We have that video here for you, plus my thoughts on some of the games and a press release from Nintendo! I thought the Nindies showcase video was fantastic! There were a lot of good looking games in that video, but there were three games specifically that stuck out to me.…

Nintendo announced today that the eshop would be available at the launch of their new system: the Switch! Not only that, but there will be some Indie games on day 1 too. We have a press release below detailing what will and won’t be available on the Switch eshop’s first day! I remember when the 3DS came out and there was no online store. It was a few months before the Nintendo eshop appeared on the system. The Nintendo Switch,…