After months of planning in my über secret lair, I'm more than a little excited to share that this July we will host our first ever Indie Games Month at N4G! A month-long celebration of indie developers and games, we’re giving indies main page N4G time with demos, trailers, previews, interviews, guest blogs and giveaways.
Among those indies? To name a few:
17-Bit
Robin Arnott
Daniel Benmergui
Bifrost Games
Chris Chung
CoffeeStainStudios
Cowardly Creations
Dejobaan Games
Double Fine
Fire Hose Games
Tom Francis
Funomena
Galactic Cafe
Gone North Games
Chris Hecker
Harebrained Schemes
Housemarque
Image & Form
Klei Entertainment
Magical Time Bean/DF
Modern Dream
New World Interactive
Borut Pfeifer
Q-Games
Red Barrels
Jason Rohrer
Runic Games
Shadowforge
Size 5 Games
Marc ten Bosch
Vagabond Dog
Young Horses, Inc.
I hope you're as excited as we are to be featuring so many great developers, studios and titles! We'll see you through E3 and then have this sweet July treat in store.
To give you a taste, today we're doing a mini-feature on one of the most recently formed indies on our list: Shadowforge and their open-world fantasy RPG, Blood and Snow. Check it out here: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
The next Tomb Raider game will take place in India and will feature an "unrestricted" open world setting, based on the latest rumor.
The rumours on the new game sound awful
"A natural disaster strikes northern India revealing ancient emperor Ashoka's ruins and artifacts. Lara strategically races against a Society of Raiders and other rivals for these powerful relics. The Society of Raiders are inspired by Lara yet unaffiliated and might have some opposite agendas. This also relates to a new feature based on recruiting teams and allies to strategically aid you in missions and defeating rivals. There's emphasis on a new non-lethal combat option"
"Generic Ubigame" structure.
4 companions with their own habilities.
Open or semi-open world, not clear.
Lara would have a motorcycle, to make it easier for players to explore.
MMO elements.
5 villains, very stereotypical, including a rich man, a mob boss, and two brothers.
Familiar characters returning, Jonah Maiava and Kurtis Trent.
Lara will have a skill tree with spells.
The game is a mix of various trends and genres."
Like, do they even know what Tomb Raider is anymore. I hope it's all bullshit, not everything needs to be open world.
I really hope they do a remaster of The Last Revelation and Chronicles.
Half of this sounds like a promising TR game, the other half not so much.
Im just hoping for a TR game where Tomb Raiding is mandatory and not optional.
Considering you might end up riding around in one huge map, I feel the tombs will probably be optional and end up feeling samey with the one location
The appeal of the older TR games was going on a globe trotting adventure to new locations with smaller explorable maps which acted like a huge puzzle / obstacle course. You even had non Tomb focused levels like London or the Zoo (It's a Madhouse) which paced things out in between.
oh god. please dont.
lwts go bk to ... you know, tomb raiding. that would be amazing.
Embracer don't give a toss about this. Their CEO is a known flipper (something I've said here for years - feel free to look up my history to find it)
They purchased it for 300m, making a half-arsed game to fulfil a contract and then flipping it to Amazon for 600m
At least Gearbox ended up at T2. Lets hope Deus Ex finds a new home soon because these idiots are 10x worse than MS.
Every game doesn't have to be full open world. I'm also hearing that Resident Evil 9 will be open world as well. Semi open world would be better in certain area's I guess imo
Discover Crow Country, the upcoming survival horror game from indie studio SFB Games. Get ready for an original PlayStation-inspired gaming experience as we speak to the developers and get an inside look at the studio and game.
Explore the controversy surrounding Helldivers 2 on PC. Learn about PlayStation's decision and the potential consequences for the company.
I believe Sony wants to pump up those (monthly active users) stat for their next investor call.
I'd like for people not to support corps so blindly, they don't care about you.
It's going to be a great month for indie gaming this July. Looking forward to seeing all the cool stuff!
My pants.....MY PAAAANNNNTTTTSSSS!!!
I ran out of pants... Now what should I do during E3?
Spread the indie love man. Those who hate them can stay salty.
Sounds good.
I really wish you could have gotten something out of thatgamecompany. They are one of my favorite devs. But that roster seems really cool anyways.