Adam 'Hot Meteor' Campbell — the designer behind the vintage Dharma ads and NES boxart — posts this image that's looking more and more suspiciously like an actual playable 8-bit… Read the rest of the article: Image: Lost in 8 Bits

Spelunky and Aquaria creator Derek Yu does big tribute to little Mario in this image for Giant Robot's 2008 Game Over show that's somehow slipped under my radar until now.… Read the rest of the article: Image: Derek Yu does Mario

Taking their original Apple print ad parodies to the next logical level, Half Life and Portal creators Valve have just released (as in, minutes ago — hold steady if the… Read the rest of the article: Valve parody Apple's 1984 ad for Half-Life 2 Mac teaser

Simon Cottee — the artist behind Rule, the recently noted animation created entirely inside Sleep Is Death — has put together this thoughtful musing on the power of the pixel,… Read the rest of the article: Video: A Brief History of the Modern Pixel

The ever-stunning games/art/fashion/culture mag Amusement brings us these images of inhabitable game consoles & handhelds, via their If I were President… feature. Click through for a hi-res gallery, and see… Read the rest of the article: Gallery: Amusement imagines game consoles, architected

Guy Warley's 'Remotes', available as an iPhone/iPad desktop from the ever-essential Poolga, and a basically dead-on representation of what next to my bed looks like.

Local favorite artist Rex Crowle ('visual playfulness' designer on Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet & Wonderland's almost-too-compulsive iPad game Godfinger) has just put up this fantastic set of sketches and art for… Read the rest of the article: Rexbox & the BBC's Becoming Merlin

As you read this, I'll currently be en route to Toronto — home to developers Capy, Superbrothers, Metanet, Queasy Games, RSBLSB, Jim Munroe & many more — to do some… Read the rest of the article: Hey Toronto: attend the free Hand Eye indie games event, May 27th

Winnipeg filmmakers BlinkWorks have just gone live with their Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Indie Game: The Movie, a feature length documentary chronicling and examining "independent game developers as… Read the rest of the article: Help raise funds for BlinkWorks documentary Indie Game: The Movie

Simultaneously the best and most heartbreaking news you'll see all day: MUBI, the indie/arthouse-focused streaming film and social network site previously known as TheAuteurs (and also as The One Site… Read the rest of the article: Criterion-backed streaming film service MUBI coming to the PS3

Jason Rohrer — no doubt inspired by the continued and jaw-dropping success of the Humble Indie Bundle (currently up to $1.24 million raised) — has just revealed a pay-anything deal… Read the rest of the article: 'Pay what you want' for Jason Rohrer's Sleep is Death

With the moons in alignment and the latest "teletex bulletin" released, Superbrothers — 1/3 of the holy trinity behind upcoming iPhone adventure Sword & Sworcery EP and creator of Boing… Read the rest of the article: Sword & Sworcery EP dev Superbrothers eulogizes Frank Frazetta

Aperture Scie– err, Valve just put together this video highlighting the successes of their "Portal recruitment program", and yesterday's announcement that the game is free on both Windows and Mac… Read the rest of the article: Portal, the corporate training success video

I'm not the greatest at this whole self-promotion gig, but a quick update to note that it's just been announced that I'll be joining the 2011 Independent Games Festival as… Read the rest of the article: Brandon named Independent Games Festival chairman

As promised, Valve have just announced that the debut Mac version of their digital download game platform Steam is now available, alongside a batch of nearly 60 games, including a… Read the rest of the article: Valve release Steam for Mac, includes free Portal

There'll be a lot of good, necessary beard-stroking over the next few weeks to figure out exactly what the organizers of the Humble Indie Bundle — a six-game pay-anything collection… Read the rest of the article: Humble Indie Bundle hits $1m, goes open-source, gets 4 day extension

This month's most exciting reveal: Media Molecule have officially debuted the first video of their sequel to the PS3's fully customizable arts&craft-y game LittleBigPlanet. With a clever and appropriate turn… Read the rest of the article: LittleBigPlanet 2 moving from 'platformer' to 'platform'

There's only just under 30 hours left to donate to the pay-anything, charity-driven Humble Indie Bundle, if you haven't already, and to say thanks for the nearly $700,000 raised so… Read the rest of the article: Humble Indie Bundle adds Samorost 2, teases source code release

With a protracted legal battle that saw it repeatedly pulled and returned to the App Store apparently now slowly drawing to a close (thanks to the help of big dog… Read the rest of the article: Mobigame's Edge returns to the App Store

For everyone that thought Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman's surprise hit Canabalt [iTunes link] was, uh, too easy (those windows!), he's just upped the ante with his Typing Tutor Edition, a new… Read the rest of the article: Canabalt goes Mavis Beacon with Typing Tutor Edition