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They Bleed Pixels gets an official trailer, summer release date

Sppoky Squid has released the debut trailer for the upcoming They Bleed Pixels, a game I’ve personally been waiting for to make its appearance on Xbox Live Indie Games since before I first got a chance to play a beta version at TCAF this year. The “fast-paced, gothic lo-fi, platforming beat’em up” is due to appear on the Xbox sometime this summer.

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Minecraft hits 500,000 in sales prior to Hallowe’en update

[ED Note: Minecraft has now racked up over 1,000,000 sales.] Minecraft, the indie sandbox game from Markus “Notch” Persson, has racked up 500,000 units sold as of about an hour ago, according to the real time counter on the top of the Minecraft home page.  As of this writing it’s sitting at 500431. Though the game was first released back in July of 2009, the game, which is still in alpha stage, has seen a surge of popularity in the gaming community since late summer of this year. Minecraft is…

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The Hand Eye Society wants your game on a cabinet

With the success of TOJam, and of the Hand Eye Society’s Torontron arcade cabinet chalk full of indie games from local developers, it’s only a small surprise that they’re making more cabinets, and they’ve put out a call for more games to fill them up.  More specifically, there will be 3 cabinets with different control schemes, and they want to highlight some of the best of the Toronto indie scene in high traffic areas like the TIFF Bell Lightbox and the offices of the OMDC. The cabinets in question will…

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Indie Fund wants to help bring your game to market

The Indie Fund has been established by seven notable indie game developers, including (but not limited to) Braid creator Johnathan Blow, Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler of World Of Goo fame as well as thatgamecompany co-founder Kellee Santiago.  Their goal is to help the funding of independent game development by support projects financially.  If you have a game at the prototype stage, and a video to go along with it, you can apply for funding right now. They’re certainly not looking to fund multi-million dollar Halo or Grand Theft Auto…

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