A gracious ConglomCo of indie developers have just kicked off the Humble Indie Bundle initiative, a pay-what-you-want campaign that gets you five award-winning games in exchange for a donation with… Read the rest of the article: World of Goo, Aquaria devs announce pay-anything charity game bundle

With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition — curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor — once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The… Read the rest of the article: Famicase Gallery: 2010's best imaginary 8-bit games

Above, artist Liselore Goedhart's unbelievably adorable illustration of the basic elements of all games, itself part of a card game meant to help designers "bring new characters and game ideas… Read the rest of the article: The elements of videogames, illustrated

It's been well over a year since the release of the original D-Pad Hero — the homebrewed 8-bit Nintendo take on Guitar Hero with lo-bit versions of Daft Punk, Guns… Read the rest of the article: 8-bit PSA: D-Pad Hero 2 set for May 16th release

Sometimes all you need is 74 seconds to convince the world that they'll want your game, as Sweden's Southend have just proved with their debut trailer for upcoming Xbox Live… Read the rest of the article: ilomilo: Southend's gorgeous storybook platformer for Xbox Live

Though it lacks the lyrical high weirdness and therefore probably the punch of the original Katamari Damacy soundtracks, the new 34-track collection of Noby Noby Boy's instrumental background music —… Read the rest of the article: Listen: Noby Noby Boy soundtrack hits iTunes

Well spotted by Joystiq as it was leaked courtesy the ESRB (as are so many game announcements these days) — and later confirmed by relatively unheard-of developer Sabarasa themselves —… Read the rest of the article: Jason Rohrer's art/game essentials headed to Nintendo DS

Your new favorite IP-infringing time-killer: Super Mario Crossover, which lets you tackle SMB as a range of 8-bit heroes: Mega Man, Link, Samus, Castlevania's Simon, Contra's Bill, or, for the… Read the rest of the article: Super Mario Crossover: the 8-bit retro mashup game

Alongside Kometen, another upcoming iPhone game featuring heavily on the radar is The Incident, from Panic designer Neven Mrgan and programmer Matt 'Big Bucket' Comi. Still heavily in development, The… Read the rest of the article: The Incident: a game of 8-bit cataclysm

Following a semi-depressing seasonal lull in truly outstanding iPhone games, it appears that the indie dev community is starting to make a springtime comeback. Case in point: Kometen, the first… Read the rest of the article: Kometen: the debut iPhone game from Blueberry Garden dev

Inspired by an early Superbrothers animation and Rohrer's own memento mori game Passage, animator Simon Cottee created Rule, a life-to-death tale of an unnamed king composed, painted, and animated entirely… Read the rest of the article: Video: Rule, fairy tale cartoon created in Sleep Is Death

Nintendo today confirmed that it will indeed be bringing the downloadable face-tracking DSi game above — which drummed up quite a bit of buzz when I first featured it here… Read the rest of the article: Looksley's Line Up: DSi Motion Tracking Game Coming to U.S.

As their way of saying thanks to their biggest feline fan, Keita Takahashi and the Noby Noby Boy team have put together an iPad wallpaper that makes Iggy a part… Read the rest of the article: Noby Noby team pay tribute to Iggy the iPad Cat

Sure, Achewood and xkcd have joked about it, but it took the sadism of Sam Hughes to make Hatetris — a one-off Tetris clone that spits out the statistically worst… Read the rest of the article: Hatetris: the meanest Tetris clone you've ever played

Someday, maybe, by some manner of communal Herculean effort, we will find a way to take the peerlessly rich/complex but almost entirely unapproachable game Dwarf Fortress and match it with… Read the rest of the article: Bronzemurder v. Oggez Rashas: a beautifully illustrated Dwarf Fortress tale

In other free-form gaming developments, Farbs — the mind behind local favorite 'Game To Get', Captain Forever — has officially unveiled PlayPen, a community site that harnesses the scale and… Read the rest of the article: PlayPen: an open-ended adventure game made of Wiki

Even though Jason Rohrer's mediated-multiplayer storytelling engine Sleep is Death — first featured here on Boing Boing — has only been in the hands of early buyers for just over… Read the rest of the article: SIDTube: Watch Sleep Is Death stories, play online

Not a half-step away from yesterday's Dwarf Fortress mega-construction — but somehow with a much darker core — TheImperar's over-meticulously constructed Sim City 3000 island paradise/hell is "inspired by the… Read the rest of the article: God game: SimCity urban planning taken to terrifying extreme

Superbrothers takes a surprising turn and remasters his upcoming iPhone adventure Sword & Sworcery EP with "detailed surfacing, complex lighting & credible 3D". (Actually, obviously, a wicked lovingly modeled and… Read the rest of the article: Superbrothers' Sword & Sworcery EP goes full HD

With tropes as, err.. 'timeless' as the 16-bit games that inspired it, Studio Joho's Dan the Man animation — its moral seemingly somewhere along the lines of 'don't waste your… Read the rest of the article: 99 16-bit problems: Studio Joho animation on the post-princess epilogue