In the midst of a Zombie Apocalypse, it’s hipsters who'll save the day!... Or, at least, the part of it that’s worth their while. If you thought hipster culture could not be parodied any further…
April 16, 2015 | 09:05 EDT
This Week In Kickstarter we've got a personalized sunrise, a game thats part Uncharted and part Dark Souls, and custom audio for tabletop gaming. Little Devil Inside Part Dark Souls, part…
April 13, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
The Talos Principle, the award-winning first person puzzle game made by Croteam and Devolver Digital, will have its first expansion pack. Named Road to Gehenna, the expansion promises to show the…
March 25, 2015 | 12:29 EDT
Indy PopCon has announced the establishment of the Reboot Indie Game Awards (RIGA) to promote video game development and technology interests: RIGA will provide competitive divisions for…
March 24, 2015 | 07:21 EDT
Convoy might be a title that slipped beneath the radar of many folks, but it's had me drooling since I saw it in November. Convoy is a tactical rogue-lite that borrows heavily from the art style and…
March 24, 2015 | 12:47 EDT
This is big news for any aspiring game developer out there. Unreal Engine 4, the fourth version of one of the most powerful game development tools currently available to public, is now free for…
March 2, 2015 | 01:52 EST
To The Green is our weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. With To The Green, we hope to highlight one worthy game each week that is attempting to get greenlit and let…
February 20, 2015 | 11:00 EST
Welcome back to our Interview with Adam Maxwell on Revival, the MMO currently in development by Illfonic Studios. Adam is one of the Lead designers on the game, and last time our interview talked…
February 19, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Today, Square Enix announced it would begin accepting pitches on game ideas from independent developers based on Eidos IPs Gex, Fear Effect, and Anachronox. Square Enix released this information via…
February 18, 2015 | 12:18 EST
When we were tipped about the existence of Revival – an MMO game in development – by a fan of the game and Techraptor, I went and took a look. I wasn’t expecting a ton, a lot of MMO's are very…
February 18, 2015 | 09:00 EST
We're honored today here on TechRaptor to have well known indie developer Cliff Harris of Positech Games (And yes, I got it right this time, unlike in the interview below. My only excuse: I was…
February 17, 2015 | 01:00 EST
For the joy of all the basement dwellers (as in Isaac's basement) out there, Edmund McMillen revealed the world the first details about the new content that is going to be introduced to The Binding…
February 14, 2015 | 09:28 EST
I'm currently loving a lot of the stuff that is being produced by the indie scene of late, and Grand Class Melee 2 is no different. Its early access was released back at the start of February on…
February 14, 2015 | 09:00 EST
TechRaptor had a chance to talk with Brandon Goins of Windy Hill Studios, via email, on his game Orphan, which is currently on Kickstarter. Orphan is an action-stealth-2d platformer game set in a…
February 8, 2015 | 10:00 EST
This week at TechRaptor I had the chance to exchange some emails with Dean Razavi, the lead developer on Vidar. We recently covered him on To The Green and were talking on different subjects about…
February 7, 2015 | 09:00 EST
To The Green is our weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. With To The Green, we hope to highlight one worthy game each week that is attempting to get greenlit and let…
February 6, 2015 | 12:00 EST
Here's hoping that there's no Hitler-class ship. Gratuitous Space Battles made big waves in the strategy game scene back in 2009, and as recently announced in a blog post by Cliff Harris of Positron…
February 6, 2015 | 10:51 EST
When you have so much talent behind a project, you just know it is going to be good, and I was in no way disappointed when I began playing the demo for The Incredible Baron. With Lead Designer David…
February 6, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Are you tired of immaculately designed graphics engines presenting you with the newest levels of graphic fidelity? Would you rather use your *own* graphics engine, the most powerful engine of them…
February 3, 2015 | 09:00 EST
We recently reviewed the Indie Action-Puzzle Platformer Forward to the Sky and had a chance to email and talk with the head of Animu Games, Wei Chen, who led the development on the project. Wei's…
February 2, 2015 | 09:00 EST
In our continuing series of Indie Interviews, we were able to sit down with Bryce and Chris - the developers behind the Indie game Super Dino Hunter. They were willing to talk with us via email about…
January 31, 2015 | 12:00 EST
To The Green is our weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. With To The Green, we hope to highlight one worthy game each week that is attempting to get greenlit and let…
January 30, 2015 | 11:00 EST
I Am Bread is, in many ways, a spiritual successor to Surgeon Simulator, both games created by Bossa Studios. But where Surgeon Simulator created an engaging and interesting experience by combining…
January 11, 2015 | 11:00 EST
A while back, I received the privilege of reviewing Wrack, a cel-shaded first-person shooter developed by Final Boss Entertainment. My first impression from playing hours of Wrack, besides the…
January 8, 2015 | 09:00 EST
To The Green is a weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. Many games get mired in the process trying to get there, caught up with abandoned projects, shovelware, and…
December 29, 2014 | 11:00 EST
TechRaptor is pleased to bring you another Indie Interview - this time with Nauris Amatnieks, the developer of There Was a Caveman. We looked at There Was a Caveman earlier on To The Green and it's…
December 27, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Scrolls is an interesting concept. It's a weird mix between a hex-based board game and a TCG (trading card game), and it definitely has carved out its own little niche. But is it any good? Scrolls…
December 27, 2014 | 09:00 EST
The year was 1996 - I was four. We had this old PC, and I always shared it with my two brothers. We each took twenty minutes before switching to the next person, with the aid of an egg timer. But…
December 26, 2014 | 09:00 EST
There's a reason why This War of Mine has gotten the hype and attention that it has gotten since its launch. In the world of video games, taking a view on some of the different elements of war isn't…
December 25, 2014 | 10:00 EST
Guild of Hunters is one of the games TechRaptor recently covered on the weekly Kickstarter article so we got in touch with the team at Ignite to see if they'd be interested in talking, with their…
December 23, 2014 | 09:00 EST
To The Green is a weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. Many games get mired in the process trying to get there, caught up with abandoned projects, shovelware, and…
December 22, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Crusaders Quest is a real-time action RPG and matching game from TOAST for iOS and Android. Released on Dec. 11, 2014, the game is now available worldwide. Tens of thousands of players pre-…
December 21, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Rollers of the Realm could have been a tricky review to do. The game would seemingly have a niche category: a pinball game with RPG elements for the PC. While several people might have played the…
December 19, 2014 | 01:00 EST
One of the strangest trends in indie gaming over the past couple of years has been NES-styled platformers. Half banking on nostalgia and half banking on difficulty, most NES-inspired indies are…
December 18, 2014 | 01:00 EST
To The Green is a weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. Many games get mired in the process trying to get there, caught up with abandoned projects, shovelware, and…
December 15, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Welcome back to This Week in Kickstarter where we take a look at some of the best Kickstarter projects out there. We apologize for missing last week, but we’ll hope you forgive us as we’re back now…
December 12, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Have you been craving for some insane hack 'n slash action full of silly moments and nonsense? Well then... you may have to wait a bit because its going to be hard to top the upcoming Zombie Vikings…
December 11, 2014 | 10:00 EST
To The Green is a weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. Many games get mired in the process trying to get there, caught up with abandoned projects, shovelware, and…
December 8, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Playstation Experience continues to reveal new games coming out in 2015 for the Playstation 4, as Sony attempts to make the most of the anniversary and celebration event. Skytorn is another of the…
December 7, 2014 | 05:42 EST
The Steam Early-Access hit "The Forest" is coming to Playstation 4. This was announced at the Playstation Experience Keynote in Las Vegas this weekend. The game is being developed by Endnight Games…
December 7, 2014 | 04:55 EST
Hot off its win of Best Indie of the Year at The Game Awards last night, Yacht Club Games has announced today at the Playstation Experience that Shovel Knight will be coming to the Playstation 3,…
December 7, 2014 | 12:01 EST
Lords of Xulima is a great homage to the classic isometric RPGs of old. In many ways, the clunky, nonintuitive, and downright challenging aspects of those games are featured in Lords of Xulima, and…
December 5, 2014 | 03:00 EST
Its December of 2014, and that means game company's are racing against the clock in attempts to meet 2014 release dates, as the time to push it off and stay in this calendar year is fading away…
December 4, 2014 | 08:42 EST
To The Green is our weekly look at one game current in Steam’s Greenlight process. There are many games mired here, and some of them have good ideas stuck in the gears that Valve has in place. Here…
December 1, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Dreamfall Chapters second book has been announced along with a name and a new trailer for it. Rebels, is the name of the second book and a few details have been released about it for those paying…
November 28, 2014 | 09:02 EST
Futuristic racers are seldom seen nowadays. At some point in history, they were all the rage, with F-Zero and Wipeout being some of the more popular and still very well-known. So how does a new…
November 27, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Very few games celebrate culture in the way that Never Alone does. There aren't many examples of games made to educate the player on the history and traditions of a rarely represented people. This…
November 27, 2014 | 11:00 EST
To The Green is our weekly look at one game current in Steam’s Greenlight process. There are many games mired here, and some of them have good ideas stuck in the gears that Valve has in place. Here…
November 24, 2014 | 11:00 EST