Indie: LIMBO

2010 was a fantastic year for independently developed games, with many of the category's front-runners providing some of year's most memorable experiences. The black and white, melancholic platformer LIMBO has been lazily described as "the Braid of 2010," but beyond the fact that both are puzzle-platformers, they're really different beasts. Whereas Braid engaged players with colorful worlds and an intellectually engaging and text-driven story, LIMBO engages the player on a more visceral level, burying its incredibly subtle (but creepy) meta-story underneath minute-to-minute action that is equal parts foreboding, pulse-pounding, and head-scratching. Read more »

Indie developer Puppy Games today announced that its tip-top tower defense game Revenge of the Titans will officially launch tomorrow, meaning that today is your last chance to get it at the bargain pre-order price.

Revenge of the Titans can be pre-ordered now for $13.37, though it's due to go up to $27.72 when it launches tomorrow for Windows, Mac and Linux. Having pre-ordered myself, I heartily recommend it. If my word's not good enough, though, you can download a demo of the latest version, which is presently the release candidate. Read more »

Frictional Games' first-person survival horror title, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, has been scaring the crap out of gamers for just over a month now. Following an initial week-one report, in which the developers discussed the lack of parity between review scores and early sales, the team has posted a one-month follow-up entry about Amnesia's sales, reception, piracy issues, and what it all means for the future of Frictional Games.

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent is the latest title from indie developer Frictional Games, creators of the acclaimed Penumbra series. Amnesia is a first-person, survival-horror game that puts players in the role of Daniel, a mysterious protagonist who awakens in a dimly-lit castle. Uncertain of his past, it's up to the player to piece together events from Daniel's fractured memory in order to uncover the secret of a malevolent darkness that pursues him.

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Frictional Games' first-person survival horror adventure about piecing together forgotten memories while trying to avoid going crazy or being brutally killed by monsters has only been out available for about a week. However, the developer of Amnesia: The Dark Descent has already decided to post some thoughts about how the game has fared in its first seven days in the wild.

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Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Word of warning to you low bandwidth Shackers, today's Filter is huge. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter includes new media for R.U.S.E., Tron: Evolution, a new DLC trailer for Transformers: War for Cybertron, a "sound" trailer for the spooky Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a trailer featuring Rock Band 3 for the Nintendo DS, footage of World of Tanks, the debut trailer for Rulers of Nations as well as new videos for Kinect Sports, Kinect Joyride, and The Lord of the Rings Online. Read more »

Update: The contest has ended and our five winners have been selected at random. RustySpannerz, passingstranger, Dick Marcinko, GOBGoat and funnyguy84 are the lucky lot who should check their Shackmessages for instructions on how to claim their prize.

Original: A 150MB-ish demo for Penumbra developer Frictional Games' new puzzling survival horror Amnesia: The Dark Descent can now be downloaded from FileShack in Windows, Mac and Linux flavours. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter includes a ton of new videos for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and Aion. Other than that we've got a debut trailer for the PSN-exclusive Top Hand Rodeo Tour, DLC trailers for Mass Effect 2 and Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days as well as new media for Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Legend of Edda. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter includes video for Company of Heroes Online, Medal of Honor, MySims SkyHeroes, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, The Secret World and UFC Undisputed 2010 on PSP. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Daily Filter features trailers for the multiple pre-order bonuses available for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days as well as new trailers for Shaun White Skateboarding and Combat Arms. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

We've got yet another monster of content for Daily Filter as assets continue to flow from Comic-Con 2010. Today we've added new screens for Lionhead's Fable 3, the ARMA 2 expansion Operation Arrowhead, scratching sequel DJ Hero 2 featuring newly added pro DJ QBert, PlayStation Move's Kung Fu Rider, screens from the action-MMO Tera and PureSim Baseball 3. Read more »

Frictional Games has announced that its terrifying survival horror Amnesia: The Dark Descent will be released on September 8.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent will sneak onto Windows, Mac and Linux, priced at $20. Pre-ordering direct from Frictional for $18 will net you a key to activate the game on Steam. Read more »

Indie developer Puppy Games has released a demo for its tip-top tower defense game Revenge of the Titans, available in Windows and Mac flavours over on FileShack.

Spotted by top chaps Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Revenge of the Titans is a lovely blend of tower defense and strategy, with resources to gather, a big, juicy tech tree and droid armies. The action is a little more involved than the average TD, requiring players to manually collect harvested resources and reload turrets while watching the battlefield for dropped power-ups and cracks in their defense. Read more »

Celebrating the inclusion of Penumbra Overture in the charity-driven pay-what-you-want Humble Indie Bundle, developer Frictional has briefly discounted the cost of pre-ordering its next game, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, by half.

The discount brings the survival-horror first-person shooter--once titled "Unknown" and currently expected to hit PC, Mac and Linux in August 2010--down to just $10. Read more »