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It's been a while since we've done a podcast - so Steve and Bret get together to talk about some of the latest Canadian releases (mostly indie titles).
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Cat couple owner slash game dev studio Max Inferno announced a 2nd DLC pack for their tidy puzzler.
A year after being announced, Compulsion Games has shown some gameplay for their 3rd person, action-adventure game.
After severing ties with recently unionized QA studio Keywords and terminating 50 developers earlier this year, BioWare has rebranded their next game from Dragon Age: Dreadwolf to Dragon Age: The Veilguard seemingly ruining years of perfectly good SEO.
Gears of War: E-Day was announced during Xbox’s Game Showcase, marking the second prequel in the Gears of War franchise.
Vancouver-based Company of Heroes 3 developer Relic Entertainment has secured funding from UK investment firm Emona Capital after laying off almost 200 staff since May 2023.
Victoria-based indie devs Hololabs have released their mobile AR game Sky Haven: AR Merge Adventure for iOS.
NetEase Games has announced the opening of a new game studio in Canada, named Bad Brain Games, to work on an "ambitious new franchise," which will be a story-driven open-world action-adventure game.
Bloom Digital Media have released a demo for their upcoming visual novel game Long Story 2, which is a sequel to the 2017 game.
Halifax-based devs Max Inferno have released Cupboards & Drawers DLC for their 2022 puzzler A Little to the Left.
David Winter is the CEO and President of Canuck Play who have made two independent football games: Canadian Football 2017, and Maximum Football 2018.
Read MoreThis week Bret and Steve sit down to talk about the UKEN Games selling off Bingo Pop, the recent Gucamelee! 2 DLC, Longstory being released on Switch, Shwip hitting early access and much more!
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The debut game from a new Western Canada indie dev duo was revealed during Day of the Devs 2024.
Cat couple owner slash game dev studio Max Inferno announced a 2nd DLC pack for their tidy puzzler.
Gears of War: E-Day was announced during Xbox’s Game Showcase, marking the second prequel in the Gears of War franchise.
Vancouver-based Company of Heroes 3 developer Relic Entertainment has secured funding from UK investment firm Emona Capital after laying off almost 200 staff since May 2023.
Victoria-based indie devs Hololabs have released their mobile AR game Sky Haven: AR Merge Adventure for iOS.
NetEase Games has announced the opening of a new game studio in Canada, named Bad Brain Games, to work on an "ambitious new franchise," which will be a story-driven open-world action-adventure game.
Bloom Digital Media have released a demo for their upcoming visual novel game Long Story 2, which is a sequel to the 2017 game.
Cococucumber have released the third and final game in their self-described “Cococucumber Voxel Trilogy.” Ravenlok is now available for Xbox, PC, Game Pass and the Epic Games Store,
Vancouver-based indie powerhouse Brace Yourself Games (@BYG_Vancouver) announced their upcoming rhythm game spinoff will be released on Nintendo Switch as well as Steam.
Open-world, dragon-flying game Ayre and the Crystal Comet is out now on consoles.
Are you interested in becoming a social media marketer? What about running a marketing campaign for your indie game on a low-to-zero budget? Corina Diaz is here to answer all those questions and more as we discuss indie games, and marketing around them.
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Solo indie dev expert and longtime friend-of-the-site Devon Wiersma joins us to talk their latest release Centauri Dark, working across AAA, mid-sized and solo indie dev and how to fix this goshdarn industry.
We speak to Québécois game dev Dragon Slumber, creator of Tech Support, Aethernaut and many more!
Primary developer/designer Andrew Shouldice, Audio Director Kevin Regamey and Level Artist Eric Billingsley join Stephan to discuss the award-winning isometric adventure game TUNIC on its 1-year anniversary.
Hololabs joins us to talk about their upcoming mobile AR project Sky Haven- and some of the lessons they've learned so far.
We talked with Kyle Sharpe (aka Ice Cold Blood) about his debut point-and-click horror game Batty Zabella. We discuss the constraints of developing a game that has to run on decades-old hardware, the underserved strain of "funny" horror in games a la Addams Family or The Munsters and much more.
In this interview, we talk with the young guns Angelo Graci (@agraci07) and Ryan Farkas (@RyanFarkas7) from Sol Studios (@SolStudios) about their new company, making their debut project Wormhole, their process, lessons learned and hopes for the future.
In this interview, we talk with the gang at Recombobulator Games, whose game Spaceboat currently has a week left on Kickstarter. You can also wishlist the game on Steam and play the demo.
In this interview, we talk to Andrew Czarnietzki & Jen Laface, cofounders of Edmonton-based indie game studio Only By Midnight (@OnlyByMidnight). They’re working on their debut game Curved Space which launches later this year on Steam, coming to Xbox One, Switch and (hopefully) PlayStation 4 in the future.
In this interview, Stephan talks to game and narrative designer Meagan Byrne (@byrne_meagan), founder of Achimostawinan Games (@AchimoGames).
In this interview, Stephan talks to Tomas Guinan, a solo indie developer from Truro-based indie studio Spoony Bard Productions (@SpoonyBardToma), whose NES-styled retro brawler Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl launched on Steam and Nintendo Switch in early May.
Bret and Steve this week discuss all the news that’s happened in the last week, plus discuss why ports on Switch seem to be much more than on Steam/Consoles. Steve also breaks the news to Bret that Red Dead Redemption 2 is not coming to PC (not yet anyways).
After launching on Steam last year, St Catharines based Rocketship Park will be porting their puzzle story-driven adventure game LOVE to Nintendo Switch “soon”.
Published by Noodlecake, and developed by FaceIT, the previous Mobile/Steam game Summer Catchers will be hitting the Nintendo Switch tomorrow (February 11th)
Reptoid Games (@reptoidgames), the developer behind 2018’s Fossil Hunters, announced their next game Fire Tonight, a narrative puzzle game “about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire”.
Mohammed is a local Toronto author who prides in storytelling in video games. He recently wrote a blog post about why we play video games.
Mohammed and Steve discuss story in games, and the recent Telltale closing.
The new studio founded by ex-BioWare devs Humanoid Origin is looking to fill multiple roles.
The debut game from a new Western Canada indie dev duo was revealed during Day of the Devs 2024.