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What started as a Ludum Dare challenge under the theme "Evolution" ended up as a "monster mashup of many different game genres with an underlying theme [Team Meat] hadn't seen done in games before". The duo called it Mew-Genics and decided to develop it as their main project. The Super Meat Boy … [Read more...] about Super Meat Boy Devs Explain Origins Of New Game Mew-Genics

As revealed by domain registrations, there are four new flavours of Skylanders coming. So far only Kaos Alliance, Super Force, Nano Force, and Swap Force have shown up as domain names, but keeping in mind that the Skylanders franchise has pulled in $500 million in the US last year, there's every … [Read more...] about Skylanders Kaos Alliance & Three More On The Horizon

A new Sherlock Holmes title has been announced featuring a "more modern character perfectly matching the new artistic ambitions of the title." The game is the latest in a series developed by Frogware, but apparently the first to be built out in Epic's nothing if not popular Unreal 3 … [Read more...] about Sherlock Holmes Game With “Artistic Ambitions” Crimes & Punishments In Development

Resident Evil: Revelations producer Masachika Kawata thinks one of the reasons for the recent decline of the Resident Evil franchise might be the glut of titles over the past two years. The latest title Revelations, though already out on 3DS, will soon be joining the coolly received sixth entry in … [Read more...] about Resident Evil Franchise Has Had “A Few Too Many” Games According To Producer

Mojang, purveyors of some of the best voxel-based gaming money can buy, have made almost a quarter of a million in revenue last year. Granted, only $91.96 million of that was profit and that's before the tax man has had his say, but that still has to be a multiple of the sum profits of every other … [Read more...] about Minecraft Makes Mojang $237 Million In Revenue For 2012

After taking the time to put the OUYA through its paces, three indie devs have provided Engadget with their take on the strengths and weaknesses of the open Android console. Strangely, they seem to boil down to one and the same issue - openness and how it will affect both the development process by … [Read more...] about OUYA Developers Share First Thoughts On Dev Kit

Psychonauts and Brutal Legend studio Double Fine has announced it will be selling the prototypes created for its Amnesia Fortnight event as part of a Special Edition Boxset. The package is comprised of the prototypes to successful games like Costume Quest and Once Upon a Monster as well as the new … [Read more...] about Double Fine Amnesia Fortnight Prototypes Now Available As Special Edition Boxset

Indie success story Frozen Synapse, which took the PC by storm last year, is making its way to consoles. The PS3 and Vita port is being handled by Double Eleven, of Little Big Planet Vita fame. There is no information as of yet whether its deep tactical gameplay will be making it to the other side … [Read more...] about Frozen Synapse: Tactics Coming To PS3 & Vita