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A Gamers' Manifesto
Got a bug up your… Erm… Well, whatever. Pointless Waste of Time brings the snark, with a gamers manifesto. It makes some fair points, though. In fact a lot of the issues will hit close to home for any gamer. AI, graphics, nip...
A Gamer's Manifesto
A Pointless Waste of time has posted A Gamer's Manifesto written by David Wong and Haimoioi that is pure gold. These are two gamers that refuse to sit back and be spoon-fed whatever happens to trickle down from the publishers. They make some great p...
Manifesto Games web site sighting
Longtime game developer and general roustabout Greg Costikyan sent a jolt through the industry when he announced Manifesto Games, a company dedicated to rewarding original, independent game ideas and getting around the narrow retail channels that ke...
Interview with Greg Costikyan, CEO of Manifesto Games
Joystiq today interviewed Greg Costikyan, CEO of newly founded games company Manifesto Games, a company that hopes to break through the retail bottleneck that has allegedly constricted industry creativity and is in part responsible for the litany of ...
Send Manifesto your games that cause pain
Last night we gave you some tips from the "Console/PC Distribution Gatekeepers" panel about publishing your indie game. One of the main things we told you execs like Microsoft's Ross Erickson kept coming back to was the fun factor. But what we didn't...
Guild Wars 2 trailer explains the MMO Manifesto
Rarely do we ever associate the word "Manifesto" with anything positive -- but this recent trailer/dev diary for Guild Wars 2, which uses the ominous M-word as its moniker, fills us with something close to unbridled joy. Check out what NCSoft and Ar...
Acclaimed Israel-Palestine sim gets commercial release
Peace Maker, a serious game concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is now commercially available via independent games publisher Manifesto Games. The simulation / strategy title places you as either the leader of Israel or Palestine as you face...
Sex games look to stake their claim
Much like Michael W. Smith circa 1990, adult video games (read: sex-based) are looking for their place in the world. But the industry's lady lumps are faced with some significant humps to get over, first and foremost: Their games aren't sold in sto...
GDC 07: How to get your indie game published
It seems like everybody's hitting it big publishing their indie games through services like Xbox Live Arcade. But what about you? For those among us still clinging to indie projects but burning to get them out into the world (ah, it burns!), Simon Ca...
Project Fedora hits funding goal with one week left
The next live-action adventure title in the Tex Murphy series, Project Fedora, has been fully funded with a week left in its Kickstarter campaign. After raising almost $500k from over 5,000 fans, creators Chris Jones and Aaron Conners are turning t...
Penny Arcade announces 'Greenhouse' online game store
Penny Arcade and Hothead Games -- the developer behind On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness -- have just announced a joint partnership to launch Greenhouse, a brand new online game store, focused on digital distribution for independent games. No...
Masaya Matsuura marches to GameCity Squared
Parappa the Rapper, Vib-Ribbon, and Major Minor's Majestic March creator Masaya Matsuura will deliver the "BAFTA Vision Statement" at GameCity Squared, the fourth annual "videogame culture festival" held in Nottingham. The Vision Statement, presented...
The Games Exist. The Need Exists. The Technology Exists.
A couple of outspoken games industry veterans today launched a new startup designed to sell indie games via direct download. The way they see it, there's been enough bitching about how many great games are out there and how broke the current ...
Greg Costikyan slams Epic for 'exploitative' work hours
Game designer Greg Costikyan has come out swinging against Epic president Michael Capps for supporting what the author and Manifesto Games co-founder describes "exploitation of talent." Capps, who lately has made a habit out of putting his foot in ...
Nintendo Insider issues a call to arms
Even the most die-hard Nintendophile has, at some point, come to terms with Nintendo's position in the console war. Looking at the sales of the GameCube, the ever-present "kiddie" image, and their once-hesitant opinion of online game, third place i...
