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Nintendo Wii Release dates

I haven’t been as excited about a console launch as I have since… well… ever!
Now that all three territories have had their prices announced (obviously I only care about the UK release date) - I can let you know when the Wii will be released.

United Kingdom (and, I assume, Europe) : December 8 - £179 […]

Aquaria from Derek Yu

Derek Yu has been secretly working on a new game project titled Aquaria.
The first most people knew about the game was when they saw it hidden away amongst the other IGF contest entries. As with all of Dereks games it looks gorgeous (he is an artist after all) and the concept sounds intriguing.
Aquaria is […]

Devbump - like Digg but for games and game developers

They will probably hate the title but Devbump is a new site that is based around the concept of Digg. It seems like it’s only been online for a few days (or maybe weeks) but already there is a lot of worthwhile content.

Airstrike 2

Airstrike II , by Divo Games is a downloadable 3D action game for PCs. There are actually 3 Airstrike games: Airstrike3D, Airstrike II, and Airstrike II: Gulf Thunder. It’s basically a vertically scrolling helicopter-based shoot ‘em up, but the angle is shifted so that you are half flying into the screen, and all the graphics […]

Retro Remakes competition

The entries for the Retro Remakes 2006 competition are in. With 76 entries the Retro Remakes game development competition is one of the biggest game dev competitions online.
You can view screenshots, and grab downloads from the competition page.
You can also check out the Independent Gaming blog where Tim is slowly working his way though the […]

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