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Punk and Indie Games

By Matthew Gallant ⋅ May 20, 2009 ⋅ 19 comments

By the mid 1970’s, Rock & Roll sounded nothing like the energetic blues-inspired pop songs after which the genre was named. The soundscape was now made up of concept albums, rock operas, synthesizers and 30 minute ballads. The music was elaborate and pretentious, carefully constructed by trained musicians and backed by symphony orchestras.
Then a bunch [...]

What should games cost?

By Joe Tortuga ⋅ April 27, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Recently, Amazon.com purchased one of the larger game portals, Reflexive Arcade.  As part of the integration, Amazon chose to lower the prices on all the casual arcade games to $9.99.  This angered publishers , causing PopCap and others to pull their games from the portal.
Jeff Tunnel (founder of Garage Games, and currently at Push Button [...]

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