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Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves Reflex Review: Planning Makes Perfect

04/12/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Reflex, Reviews

I may not look it, but I’m a red-blooded American man through and through. I like beer, burgers and fighting mythological creatures with traps and lumberjack related skill sets. That’s why when I first saw Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves on Steam Greenlight, I showed extreme excitement with both my facial expressions and my private areas. After spending a good chunk of time with Sang-Froid, I’m quite pleased with it but it’s definitely a title that caters to a pretty specific [...]

Tiny Barbarian DX Interview with Michael Stearns – The Cursed Checkpoint #129

12/07/2012
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by Ethan Moses in: Podcasts, The Cursed Checkpoint

Tiny Barbarian DX is an action platformer made with a serving of retro gaming respect and a dollop of Conan the Barbarian. Ethan Moses speaks with creator Michael Stearns about the game, indie game development, and his views on Kickstarter/Greenlight. The Cursed Checkpoint is a topical video game podcast focused on discussions and interviews about a single video game, genre, news headline, or industry story. It features a rotating cast of up to 3 members of the Horrible Night writing staff [...]

Broforce Interview with Evan Greenwood – The Cursed Checkpoint #126

09/28/2012
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by Ethan Moses in: Podcasts, The Cursed Checkpoint

The prototype for Broforce was pretty much a calling for our brothusiast, Ethan. He joins Free Lives’ Creative Director, Evan Greenwood, to discuss the game, the true definition of bro, how to survive the flying sharks of South Africa, and more. The Cursed Checkpoint is a topical video game podcast focused on discussions and interviews about a single video game, genre, news headline, or industry story. It features a rotating cast of up to 3 members of the Horrible Night [...]

The First Approved Games for Steam Greenlight

09/12/2012
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by Brandon Coppernoll in: Headlines, News

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce Greenlight’s first graduating class. Queue band for Pomp and Circumstance. Each game will be released independently and many are in different stages of the process with Valve. You can expect to see all ten of these games released over the coming months. “The Steam community rallied around these titles and made them the clear choice for the first set of titles to launch out of Greenlight,” said Anna Sweet of Valve. “Since launch, hundreds of titles [...]

Steam Greenlight Initiates $100 Submittal Donation

09/06/2012
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by Justin Lacey in: Headlines, News

Steam Greenlight launched last week to combat Valve’s growing problem of getting games approved games for Steam. Steam Greenlight is a crowdsourcing solution that allows Steam members to vote up/down game submissions to the service. Upon logging into the service for the first day, we noticed a few issues. My first scan of the submissions immediately brought me nightmares of the current Xbox Indie Games Library and Josh Lee had his own issues with the approval system; it requires too [...]

Backlog Commandos – The Horrible Show Live #317

09/05/2012
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by Horrible JDevL in: Podcasts, The Horrible Show

The video game backlog is always there, always daunting, sometimes mocking, never flinching, but often spectacular. Justin, Cole, and Josh discuss techniques for navigating their backlog, their greatest discoveries, and games they wish had stayed buried. The Horrible Show – Join the editorial staff of HorribleNight.com as they discuss a variety of entertainment-focused video game topics. This show was recorded live on Twitch.tv/HorribleNight. Live podcasts are featured monthly. View the archived video. Thanks to Twitch User Verdian_ and Twitter User [...]

Horrible Newswire: Celebrate While There is Still Time

PAX Prime always signals the end of the summer gaming drought for me. The final hype before the big push into the major release months. Hats off to Konami for making its presence known this year, but MGS updates seem about as interesting as Final Fantasy updates these days. We wrapped up our monthly look at Death in Games and Cole cautions everyone to never let one review make up your mind for you. Last Week’s Headlines The World Ends With [...]

Horrible Newswire: It’s Getting Humid in Here

Steam wanted all of the attention apparently as it stole all of the conversation this week. First with a big change, and then with the sale that everyone loves/hates. It was announcement week on Horrible Night with two events kicking off, but we also found time to offer plenty of advice. Last Week’s Headlines Valve opens up Steam’s game approval system with Steam Greenlight Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs delayed to 2013 Be warned. The Steam Summer Sale is upon [...]

The Tetris Connection – The Horrible Show Live #313

07/11/2012
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by Horrible JDevL in: Podcasts, The Horrible Show

Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters is coming to Indianapolis and Justin, Cole and Josh have Tetris on the brain. From classic NES Tetris to today’s versions the cast discusses the influence that Tetris has had on them and their other favorite puzzle games. The Horrible Show – Join the editorial staff of HorribleNight.com as they discuss a variety of entertainment-focused video game topics. This show was recorded live on Twitch.tv/HorribleNight. Live podcasts are featured monthly. View the archived video. [...]