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Digikhel has announced its first iOS game – a deep space mining arcade game titled Orion’s Gold. The game is set in a distant future, where all of Earth’s natural resources are depleted and humans must venture to the dangerous Orion’s Belt to mine for precious metals. Gameplay involves mining …

Nautilus Mobile’s Real Cricket 14 will release on 31st March for Android, followed by an iOS release on 20th April. Real Cricket 14 features a unique hand-drawn 2D art style that took Nautilus artists over six months to perfect. However, despite being a mobile game with 2D visuals, it aims …

Creature Box Studio’s first game, Space Runner, is out now for Android devices. Space Runner is a 2D endless game, where the player must navigate a space ship through asteroids using swipe controls, while at the same time destroying asteroids by tapping them. Creature Box is Indore-basedAnshul Soni’s one-man start-up …

Pyrodactyl has released a new tease trailer for its crowd-funded adventure role-playing game, Unrest. Unrest is based in and around the fictional city of Bhimra, which finds itself in turmoil amid a leadership change after the assassination of the ruling royal family. The game focuses heavily on narrative and conversation, …

Zombies Indie House has snapped up an honourable mention award at the Tizen App Challenge for its game, ‘Meanwhile, In A Parallel Universe’, and a handsome $40,000 cheque to go with it. Over $4 million in cash prizes were up for grabs in the Tizen App Challenge across nine game …

Rolocule Games has been nominated for the Edison Award for its Rolomotion motion-control gaming technology. The Edison Award recognises the most innovative products, services and business leaders, with nominations based on the concept, value, delivery and impact of each innovation. Past recipients of the award have included the likes of …

Mech Mocha co-founder Arpita Kapoor has received the Most Prominent Female Indie award at Casual Connect Europe’ Indie Prize. The award caps off an eventful week for the indie start-up, which also announced its latest round of funding, and its acceptance into the Chartboost Universitymentorship program. Mech Mocha recently concluded …

Indie start-up Mech Mocha has been selected for the Chartboost University, a US-based education program for budding game developers. The all-expenses-paid scholarship will give Mech Mocha the opportunity to learn from top mobile game developers through one-on-one mentoring sessions and lectures. Mech Mocha is the brainchild of IIITM Gwalior alumni …

It was on this very day a year ago that Gameloft unceremoniously shut down its Hyderabad studio, leaving over 200 developers jobless overnight. Amid the outpouring of support from the game development community, a handful of developers saw the dire situation as the perfect opportunity to start out on their …

Toki Tori developer Two Tribes had reduced its staff down to the studio’s original founders, officially shutting down the 13 year old studio and letting go of eight staff members in the process. The Netherlands-based developer explained in a blog post that a fresh start was necessary, as the old …