Single-player games withstood World of Warcraft. They’ll survive PUBG, too
With the recent cancellation of Visceral’s single-player Star Wars game, shifting focus of big publishers on multiplayer games and more than stellar success of...
Relic Hunters Legend seeks Kickstarter treasure for its shooter RPG
Relic Hunters Legend mashes up online four-player shooters with role-playing games, and it’s got a cheeky colorful style that looks like it would be...
Re:Legend farms the likes of Monster Rancher, Stardew Valley, and Malaysia for inspiration
Re:Legend checks every box for a certain kind of gamer: It’s got monster raising, farming, crafting, and fishing. It smashed through a bevy of...
Valve’s solution to Steam review-bombing makes no sense
I was target of a review bombing campaign years ago, when I released Telepath RPG: Servants of God on Desura. I had committed the...
Exore: The Rising’s factional world reminds me of my favorite D&D setting
Exore: The Rising caught my attention not for being a role-playing game. I get pitched on several a day, so ideas needs to stand...
It’s a kind of magic…
Presented by Intel “We started off not knowing exactly what kind of game we wanted to make,” says Patric Mondou, Creative Director at Borealys...
Devolver Digital backs another indie on Kickstarter: Torla, a surreal RPG
Torla is a charming role-playing adventure for PC that’s raising funds on the crowdsourcing site Kickstarter. Its art style is reminiscent of old Flash...
Crowdfunding is in trouble — and the game industry can save it
Crowdfunding isn’t fatigued — it’s growing up. For years platforms like Kickstarter have made it possible for projects to be funded directly by friends,...
Richard Garriott’s Portalarium to raise equity crowdfunding for Shroud of the Avatar
Richard Garriott’s Portalarium has raised $9.4 million over the past four years for its fantasy role-playing game Shroud of the Avatar. But the company...
How Muse Games keeps rocking the online multiplayer boat
Presented by Intel NYC indie games studio Muse Games launched its flagship game, Guns of Icarus, under a dark cloud in 2010. Very literally....