Dirk Dashing 2 Pre-order Trailer – Indie DB

For those who haven’t heard of Dirk Dashing, you can check out the first one here.

Source: IndieDB
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Yes, you’ve read the title right. I’m thinking about reviewing Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I’m playing through and rather enjoying myself. I’m finding that it might be my new favorite Zelda game. While we all await my possible review, check out this nice trailer.

We are taking this week off for Thanksgiving. Mmmmmm……..turkey and gravy.

Glen’s Note: Dude!!! You can’t forget the cranberry sauce…

SONAR release trailer – Indie DB

Sonar has released a second demo. You can get the demo here.

My new work/play PC is up and running, isn’t she purrdy. So with said new PC we should have more videos coming and I can get back to work on the site/playing games.

So happy I am too cry.

Every year IndieCade showcases some of the best in indie games, and well…the winners have been announced for this year. This is a direct press release sent to us.

This press release was sent to us by The Bohle Company for IndieCade:

“LOS ANGELES – Oct. 11, 2011 – Thirteen games, chosen by a panel of experts, received top honors at the 2011 IndieCade Conference Festival. FEZ, created by Polytron Corporation, was awarded the Grand Jury Award. IndieCade recognizes superior examples of story development, visual, technological, audio and all-around independent game titles as well as a creator who has greatly contributed to the independent gaming field.

Eleven of the winners, including the Grand Jury Award were announced at the Red Carpet awards show, sponsored by LG Electronics, on Thursday, Oct. 6. On Sunday night, Oct. 9, GameFly, a supporting sponsor, hosted the closing party where the Audience and Developer Choice Awards were announced.

“2011 was a great year for the indie gaming community, which continues to grow and change by leaps and bounds.” said Stephanie Barish, CEO, IndieCade. “This year’s submissions reflected the incredible diversity and innovation we have seen growing over the four years of IndieCade. The nominees and winners represent the best aspects of independent games.”

The game and developer winners this year are:

Grand Jury Award: FEZ, Polytron Corporation – The award distinguishes the game that cultivates artistry and embodies complete passion for game development. This year the jury chose from 36 game finalists from 14 different countries.

LG Mobile Innovative Game Award: Hungry Hungry UFOs, Asher Vollmer, Sam Farmer and Ben Bharier- The nominees for this award were brought together and established the prototypes for consideration at the IndieCade 3D Mobile Game Jam, presented and sponsored by LG Mobile.

Visuals sponsored by Nvidia: Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Superbrothers, Capybara Games, Jim Guthrie

Audio: Proteus, Ed Key

Impact sponsored by G4: Johann Sebastian Joust, Douglas Wilson and Friends

Interaction: Ordnungswissenschaft, Till Wittwer, Marek Plichta and Jakob Penca

Game Design: Deepak Fights Robots, Tom Sennett

Technology sponsored by Transgaming: Johann Sebastian Joust, Douglas Wilson and Friends

Story/ World Design sponsored by BBC Worldwide: FEZ, Polytron Corp.

Special Recognition: The Swapper, Facepalm Games – it’s a game specially selected by the Jury for being a stand-out game, but not one that could fit into any other category very well.

The Trailblazers Award: Megan Gaiser

Developers Choice Award: Way, Coco & Co (Carnegie Mellon)

Audience Choice Award: The Depths to Which I Sink, Bigpants

For more information, visit http://www.indiecade.com/”

I’m rather happy that Fez won the show, and really looking forward to the game.

Ok so some of the new skin that we are working on has been accidentally switched over to the main IndieOtaku…sorry about that…even though you might rather enjoy some of the changes…

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According to this news post on IndieDB, Desura now has the ability for indies to put up their game for Alphafunding, similar to other funding websites like Kickstarter. The difference is you get instant rewards when you fund the indie games on Desura.

Check out the full news post

We would like to thank all our followers and fans. And we would like to apologize for our lack of new videos and content but Glen and myself have been experiencing PC problems as well as both of us getting sick on different weeks. [It's ok we're all better now.] But my new PC is now only a couple of weeks away and when it gets here there will be more original content. We are working on major site updates and content that will be on the way in the coming weeks.

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