Posts tagged desura 
First-person platformer Deadcore is a sci-fi speedrun
First-person platformer Deadcore is now available on PC, Mac and Linux. Developed by the five-person French studio 5 Bits Games, the game costs $10 on Steam and Desura. Set in a mysterious sci-fi world, Deadcore has players climbing to the top of a labyrinthine tower, shooting at mechanical enemies...
Indie Royale's Joystiq reader-named 'With Cheese' bundle out now
Indie Royale has launched the "Royale with Cheese" bundle, a beat-the-minimum PC game compilation named by contest-winning Joystiq reader bourbumchickum. The DRM-free package includes indie PC standouts Continue?9876543210, Cognition Episode 3: The Oracle, Yelaxot, Rogue's Tale and Too Many Me. ...
Second Life developer Linden Lab picks new CEO, Ebbe Altberg
Linden Lab announced Ebbe Altberg as its new CEO today. He joins the company following former CEO Rod Humble's departure late last week. Altberg was previously COO of professional networking company BranchOut and SVP of Media Products for Yahoo. Linden Lab is best known for developing Second Lif...
Indie Royale 'Debut 9' bundle makes first-timers available on the cheap
Indie Royale has posted a new bundle of tempting indie delicacies from first-time developers, all of whom are currently fighting on Steam Greenlight for placement on Valve's digital distribution service. The Debut 9 bundle, available for little over the next five days, tosses together six indie deb...
Humble Weekly Sale collects Galaxy on Fire 2, Jagged Alliance series
The latest Humble Weekly Sale spotlights publisher bitComposer Games, offering a range of classic and modern releases from the Jagged Alliance series, among other featured games. The bundle includes the iPad-ported space exploration game Galaxy on Fire 2, World War II flight sim Air Conflicts:...
Desura gets spooky with indie-focused Halloween sale
Not to be outdone by Steam's ongoing catalog-wide sale, rival online storefront Desura has launched a week-long Halloween promotion of its own, dropping the price of many featured horror games in a most spooktacular fashion. Today's sale brings a 75 percent price drop for Matt Cohen's first-pers...
All nominated IndieCade games offered Desura distribution and promotion
Linden Lab is offering free Desura distribution and promotion to all IndieCade finalists, the Second Life developer announced. The offer extends to all PC, Mac and Linux nominees in the games festival, which takes place this weekend in Los Angeles. According to IndieCade's website, 21 of the 36 ...
Golden Jubilee Bundle offers indie value, keys to newsletter subscribers
Indie Royale has launched its 50th bundle, The Golden Jubilee Bundle, and has included two redeemable keys within the bundle's related email to all of its "regular email newsletter" subscribers. The keys also include a digital copy of Cold Storage's Tik Tak album. For newsletter-less gamers, pa...
Hand-picked Xbox Indie PC ports in new Indie Royale bundle
Eight PC ports of what Indie Gamer Chick, a site devoted to Xbox Live Indie Games, calls "the best Xbox Live Indie Games ever made" are all available in the latest Indie Royale bundle. Throwing down more than $8 will guarantee three soundtracks in addition to the games. Dead Pixels, a zombie s...
Second Life developer snaps up indie game distribution service
Linden Lab, developer of the 3D virtual world Second Life, announced today that it has acquired the indie-focused PC game distribution service Desura. Desura, notable for offering a publishing platform with a lower barrier for entry than its competitor Steam, is a DRM-agnostic service employed b...
