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MumboJumbo to put Braid on the retail!

Braid is an indie game that is very good. Yeah, an indie game that isn’t pretentious! Go figure right?

Anyhow, casual indie game publisher and developer MumboJumbo is going to publish the game for the PC and will be distributed nationwide to retailers. Congrats Braid and the Jonathan Blow that developed the game.

“Braid is a really exceptional game that is highly polished and fits in well with our premium casual games lineup for 2010,” said Mark Cottam, CEO of MumboJumbo. “We’re excited to bring Braid to the retail market, and we feel that MumboJumbo can really help round out the game’s reach.”

Plus the game is only going to cost $20 so if you haven’t picked it up on one of the many online distributors out there, you can get it now and experience the amazing platforming puzzler that will make you wanna blow your brain to pieces.

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Default Prime: Best of Gaming in 2009 (Bandwagon Edition)

We at Default Prime do not jump on bandwagons, we create them. Instead of creating a bandwagon for this one though, we decided to use the tried and true outline when creating the best of gaming for 2009. Not a lot of surprises, but we covered a lot of the genres and categories so you should check them out, and chip your opinion in on the comments section. Or don’t, because if you’re opinions are different we’ll have to kill you.

Really.

Game of the Year (best overall)

Uncharted 2

Mike:  I agree, the story was relatively short but extremely cinematic and captivating and the writing was incredible on top of the gameplay, graphics, and sound.

Game of the Year for:

PS3

Uncharted 2

Wii

New Super Mario Bros.

360

Shadow Complex

PC

Dragon Age: Origins

DS

Mario & Luigi : Bowser’s Inside Story

PSP

SuperMario290: Half-Minute Hero

Suburban_Hell: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona

Indie

Trials HD

Action Adventure

Assassin’s Creed 2

First Person Shooter

Modern Warfare 2

Third Person Shoter

Red Faction: Guerrilla

Puzzle

Scribblenauts

Casual

Wii Sports Resort

Action

Batman Arkham Asylum

Sports

NHL 10

RPG

Dragon Age: Origins

Platformer

Trine

Strategy

The Sims 3

Cooperative

Left 4 Dead 2

Creative

Borderlands

Racing

Forza Motorsport 3

And that concludes our best games of 2009 list. Will there be a worst games of 2009 list? You better fucking believe it.

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Pet a Cow With no Clothes on in Every Day the Same Dream

Now I’m not a big art or indie gamer, but when I saw the post on Destructoid about a drudge-tastic game that’s short, pretentious, and has multiple endings. This is Every Day the Same Dream developed by Molleindustria. So I played it.

The game is very simple and is all based around one man that is going through the same things every day in life. It’s your “job” to free him this monotonous curse, helping him with the “5 steps to become a new person”.

The graphics and music are very well done, with the music matching the dull and seemingly color-less game and the actions that you take within the game. As I was saying, the game has many different endings that you can explore, the first of which being meeting a homeless person when you’re supposed to be going to work, and he takes you to a graveyard. There are 4 others to explore, and I gurantee that you’d have to be pretty sharp to figure out the last one, because it took me a while to figure it out.

That being said, it’s very art-gamey, and it just has that sort of feel to it. And there’s no real…outcome more or less to the choices or decisions that you make within the game. Everything is just focused upon exploring the different story branches. Plus once you get to the ending, you’ll feel like you just wasted 15 minutes, because it makes no sense and is not gratifying in any way. Oh well, I guess I give it an A for effort but more could have been done with the narrative and story but other than that it was a good play.

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Exclusive Farmlands Sowing Secrets Screenshots

Our friend Greg Chudecke over at Caffeinated Games has provided us some with some exclusive screenshots of their upcoming independent game Farmlands Sowing Secrets. You can see more details about the game and how it plays at our post previously here.

Below are screenshots of 3 of the levels out of the game, including the Forrest, Graveyard, and Lava level. Here’s a little bit of information about all of these:

Forrest level: Harvesting lumber by planting crops on trees and selling it at the hardware store is the way to go in this level.

Graveyard Level: Wells in this level which increase the value of your farms if you connect to them

Lava Level: Wells and a Gold mine. The gold mine gives you gold every turn if you connect your farms to it using crops.

The game looks great and I am more than excited to play it. There is currently no release date, but we’ll be sure to keep you updated with the latest media and news about the game.

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Caffeinated Games enters Farmlands Sowing Secrets into the IGF

Our friends at indie developer Caffeinated Games have just announced that they will be entering their latest game, Farmlands Sowing Secrets into the Independent Games Festival. Above is a little “trailer” video for the game.

What the game pretty much is, is a board and card game. You wander around the board where you will build farms and crops, which will increase the value of your farms. It’s kind of like Monopoly where if another player lands on your farm they must pay you a certain toll. To win, the player must have the highest total value of all of their stuff when the timer runs out, or reach a certain number of assets before the timer runs out.

You can check out more information and details at the game’s official site, and you can check out their official IGF entry page here.

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Hand-Drawn Mario & Luigi

These are some pretty awesome realistic-style Mario & Luigi pictures.  It kind of makes Mario look like a mobster and Luigi look like a drug addict, but it just looks awesome and must have taken a really long time to do this.  Both of these shown above were drawn by Anthony Jones.

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World of Goo Dev: DRM is Unnecessary

Ron Carmel, co-founder of 2D Boy, the independent company that made the infamous World of Goo, shared strong advice to fellow indie developers about involvement of publishers and DRM.

“The most important thing to ask yourself is why you need publishers,” Carmel said.

After dealing with publishers and contracts for months, Camel learned this simple little fact:

“Our conclusion with publishers is… don’t do it,” Carmel said.

“Go with digital distribution,” Carmel said. “You don’t need publishers for this.”

With XBLA, WiiWare, Steam, and PSN, digital distribution allows indie devs to get their product to gamers.

Carmel also went on saying that DRM is a waste of time, and for devs not to worry about their game getting cracked or leaked across the internet.

Link

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Super Obama World – Play it Now!

Okay, I know what your going to say, this is terribly racist, but it’s not. Super Obama World is a Super Mario Bros. mod that stars our new president elect Obama. Play through the icey levels, collect American Flags, and avoid those republicans running around. Also, if you like the enough, you can buy “Super Obama World” parphanelia, such as shirts adn sweatshirts. Click the link below and be taken to a place that you probably never wanted to go to.

Play Super Obama World Here