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Steam puts all indie games on sale this weekend

by John Callaham Mar 21st 2009 @ 9:00AM

We thought Valve was done with its weekend Steam sales deals this week with its Oddworld game discounts. Nope. Not a chance. Valve has decided to put every indie game in its library on sale this weekend as well, giving some not-so-well-known titles some needed attention.

While some of the games have just a 10 percent discount this weekend, others have larger price cuts. For example all of Meridian4's indie games have a 20 percent discount this weekend. Some titles are priced as low as 33 percent off its regular Steam price this weekend. Among those titles are World of Goo, Defense Grid: The Awakening and Audiosurf. So if you are ready to try out something that's outside the game norm, this might be a good time to do so.

Filed under: Downloads, Indie

Major update for Audiosurf released

by John Callaham Feb 4th 2009 @ 8:00PM

If you are a fan of the great racing-music game Audiosurf (and if you are not, then you need to be) you've got a major new update to download via Steam tonight. The update is more than just a bug fix patch; a number of new features have been added to the popular game.

Among the new additions is full Unicode support, new Russian language support, and if you have one of those netbooks that the kids are talking about a new Minimal detail setting, Freeride in the game also has two new modes; Autopilot and Visualiser, the latter of which brings some new graphics options.

Filed under: Downloads, Driving, Puzzle, Rhythm

Indie Showcase: Best Indie Games of 2008

by James Murff Jan 7th 2009 @ 3:00PM

Welcome to the Indie Showcase, a semi-regular column on Big Download that takes a look at games we haven't covered on the site that we really think you should play.

Wow. 2008 sure was a whirlwind year for independent games on PC and console alike. Games like World of Goo, Braid, and Everyday Shooter have defied our expectations and brought forth a sort of indie gaming renaissance. So let's take a look back at all those indie games released or significantly updated in 2008. There's a lot that can be learned from the independent and the auteur, after all. These games will be in no particular order, because I don't want to taint this list with trying to name a best, second best, and so on. They are all great games.

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Gallery: Best Indie Games of 2008

Filed under: Features, Indie

Spike TV and Mountain Dew to offer big indie games for free

by John Callaham Dec 10th 2008 @ 3:00PM

This Sunday Spike TV will broadcast its annual Video Game Awards ceremony and one of the catagories will be the new Best Independent Game award. Today Spike TV and the award's sponsor Mountain Dew announced that the nominees will be made available for free for a limited amount of downloads. The nominated games include two PC titles, World of Goo and Audiosurf.

Details on how to get the free games will be made available at the end of The Next Great Game Gods, a Spike TV special that will air on Friday at 12:30 am ET. The program will feature Gametrailers.TV host Geoff Keighley interviewing a number of the nominees for the award including Dylan Fitterer, the creator of Audiosurf, and 2D Boy's Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler, the creators of World of Goo. The special will also feature an interview with Spore creator Will Wright.

Filed under: Culture, Downloads, Puzzle, Rhythm

Feature: 15 Indie Games for the Holidays

by James Murff Nov 26th 2008 @ 3:00PM

So you are looking for a new experience in gaming. But the mainstream market is getting you down with its high price tags and extensive DRM. But there's a lot of great games out there that you can get cheap. The indie market is strong, and some of the best games around can be found for half the price of the price of more mainstream games like Dead Rising or Fallout 3. They've also got far less rigorous specs than their mainstream counterparts, which is also a welcome change of pace. We've got a list of some of the best indie games money can buy, ranging from the puzzle extravaganza World of Goo to the clever and addicting Armageddon Empires. So indulge in the little guy this holiday season. You won't be disappointed with the results you get.

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Gallery: 15 Indie Games for the Holidays

Filed under: Features, Indie

Spike TV Video Game Award nominees announced

by John Callaham Nov 13th 2008 @ 10:00AM

Spike TV will once again hold their own awards ceremony devoted to video games this year. Today the nominees were announced for the annual Spike TV Video Game Awards and they have all the usual suspects. The awards themselves will be show on the cable TV network on Dec. 14.

You can head on over to the Spike TV web site to check out all the nominees. The catagory of best PC game has just four games; Left 4 Dead (not yet officially released) Warhammer Online, Crysis Warhead and Spore. We are sure a lot of folks are wondering why games like Sins of a Solar Empire, Far Cry 2, Fallout 3 and others didn't get nominated in this catagory. One interesting new development is the addition of the Best Independent Game where two PC titles got nods, World of Goo and Audiosurf.

Filed under: Contests, Culture

Audiosurf to surf into European retail stores

by John Callaham Sep 23rd 2008 @ 8:00PM

It's been the definition of a sleeper hit in 2008 as the acclaimed indie puzzle-music-racing game Audiosurf became a major hit when it debuted on Valve's Steam download service back in February. However there are those folks who haven't learned about this whole "Intertubes" or "Intraweb" or whatever the kids are calling it so they most likely haven't even heard of the title.

Now comes word that Ascaron Entertainment will be releasing Audiosurf to European retail stores beginning in October for the cheap, cheap price of 9.99 EUR. The game, which takes a person's songs and converts them into a digital looking race track, has no US retail release date. However if you are brave you could try this "World Wide Sports" thingie...

Filed under: Downloads, Driving, Puzzle, Rhythm

Independent Minds: A Friendly Competition

by James Murff Sep 2nd 2008 @ 2:00PM

Independent Minds aims to take various aspects of indie gaming and present them to you each week. From game round-ups to design elements to interviews with prominent members of the scene, it's an exploration of what makes indie gaming great as well as what makes someone an indie.

It's a phenomenon normally only seen in amateur communities, among people that do not have the drudgery of a nine-to-five job in their field. The freelancers and visionaries, the next great creators of the future. From writing, to art, to movie-making, competitions are not so much the realm of professional-level creation but rather for those that can crank out a prototype, an early draft, or a short movie in a single weekend. For these competitions, none seems to be as interesting as those created by the independent game development company.

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Filed under: Culture, Indie

Beyond Good And Evil and Audiosurf on sale via Steam this weekend

by John Callaham Aug 22nd 2008 @ 7:30PM

It's Friday which means it's time to kick back, go see a movie, hang with a significant other or maybe try out some new games. Valve's Steam service has two games in their line-up priced well below their regular price for this weekend only. One is Beyond Good and Evil, the acclaimed Ubisoft fantasy action-adventure title. It's priced at only $4.99 this weekend. Buy it and check out its goodness before Ubisoft releases its announced sequel to the game.

The other game on sale at Steam this weekend is the indie music rhythm-racing title Audiosurf. For just a few days you can buy and download the acclaimed title for just $4.99, which is a near-perfect price to see what all the fuss is about.

Filed under: Downloads, Action, Rhythm

Audiosurf recieves new update

by James Murff Jul 24th 2008 @ 5:00PM

Talk about making a game better on a regular basis. Audiosurf has already received one free, massive update, and now comes another one. This one, though, is interesting. This new update allows the players to make their own game modes by changing the names of the song they are playing. They can do so by adding one or multiple tags after the title of the song. We have to say that this sort of improvements to an already great game just impress us all that much more. An explanation of the system can be found on the Audiosurf forums, and the full list of tags can be found after the break or in the Steam update.

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Filed under: Indie, Puzzle, Rhythm

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