Twas a great year for micro independent game developers on the XBLIG (XBOX Live Indie Game Marketplace). Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to feature those games that sold the most for their deference to more pronounced indie titles (we’re looking at you, Minecraft) rather than focus...

What a year it has been for indie game developers. We have been keeping careful watch on the huge interest in independent game titles and more importantly the advances being made by micro-companies, most often one or two person operations. Given all of that energy, it is very daunting to...

When Microsoft decided to open the floodgates and allow anyone to code, publish and market an indie game on their XBOX 360 Live Marketplace they manifested an amazing public platform for micro game developers. When they then decided to shove it into a dark corner of said marketplace, the...

Game: Bad Golf Developer: Adam Spragg Games Genre: Sports & Recreation Players: 1-4 Local Price: 80 Microsoft Points Like the developer summary says – don’t let the name fool you. Bad Golf turns out not to be so bad at all; this 2D physics based “golf game”...

Game: Dogfight SKETCH! Developer: HydraKill Release Date: 11/21/2010 Genre: Shooter Players: 2 Local Languages: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States Price: 80 Microsoft Points Developer Summary: Battle out against your fiends with...

TITLE: Sword and Hammer – the hand of the king DEVELOPER: BM RELEASE DATE: 1/21/2011 GENRE: Other PRICE: 240 Microsoft Points Perhaps some of you are old enough to remember a revolutionary standup arcade game by Disney ex-pat animator Don Bluth called Dragon’s Lair (and its...

It was an interesting year for the XBOX Live Indie (formerly known as community and XNA respectively) game platform: first Microsoft made the grave mistake of hiding the XBOX Indies inside some esoteric marketplace tab away from the central gaming area. Then the came the backlash. Then...

The greatly anticipated spawn of indie guru Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes (both subjects of the upcoming film Indie Game: The Movie)- Super Meat Boy splats down on the XBOX Live Arcade on October 20th 2010. What’s more awesome, however, is this 90′s commercial they put up...

This article originally appeared at IndieGameReviewer.com and is republished here with permission. The original article has been expanded and embellished here for those more focused on the Xbox Live Indie Game Community. I have been having fun playing with the free XNA Game Studio 3.1. ...

Developer: Brendon Chung / Blendo Games Genre: Strategy & Simulation Countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States Languages: English Price: 400 Microsoft Points Developer Summary Lead your orbital battleships to victory in...

Every so often we get word of an upcoming title in development for the Xbox Indie Games marketplace that makes us sit up and take special notice. The last title that did this was Masters of Belial, for raising the visual graphics bar on the XBLIG platform. The next title to have this...

March 17th, 2010 At long last RPG “Masters of Belial” hits the XBOX 360 Live Indie marketplace raising the bar for all comers. This may be one of the best looking games ever released for the XNA crowd. Reminiscent of King’s Bounty or Might and Magic or of course Diablo,...