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Dr. David's Indie Spotlight: The Full Indie Summit

GameZone: "The indie side of the video game industry has managed to grow to a massive scale over the past several years. It wasn't long ago that titles such as Spelunky and Cave Story were becoming underground cult hits, and now games like Super Meat Boy and Castle Crashers are practically household names among gaming aficionados. That's why it makes sense that the indie spectrum will soon obtain even more recognition in Vancouver with the Full Indie Summit. Acting as a spiritual successor to GDC Canada, this “developer's conference on a shoestring budget” will include a number of talks from notable industry folk and even presentations from Sony and Nintendo. Suffice it to say if you're in the Vancouver area and fancy yourself an indie lover, you're going to want to check out the show."

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10 Genres That Are Missing From the Vita's Library

VGChartz;s Adam Cartwright: "For a console that can only really be seen as a commercial failure, the PlayStation Vita did extremely well for itself in terms of software – more than 1500 games are available for it and that figure is surprisingly still growing each week, despite the hardware being discontinued earlier this year and despite the rhetoric suggesting it’s only a good machine for indie 2D platformers and niche Japanese RPGs.

Unfortunately certain genres didn't receive any representation at all and act as glaring holes in the Vita’s software library. Some of these just aren’t particularly popular on consoles in general, such as city builders, which have been niche for years. It’s these genres I’m aiming to look at in this article – what they are (including examples of some modern entries in the genres), why they weren't represented on the Vita, as well as some suggestions about what alternatives are available to scratch that itch."

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Top 20 WiiWare Games (10-1)

Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "The official end of the WiiWare service may not be until early 2019 but we wanted to give everybody as much of a chance as possible to remember all of the great games that Nintendo’s first every download service brought us. Last week we counted down the first 10 games in our look at the Top 20 WiiWare games ever made, and if you haven’t had the chance yet you can check out those picks right here but now we switch our focus over to the very best that WiiWare has to offer so if you still have a Wii (or a Wii U) kicking around make sure to download these games before they are lost forever."

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Retro City Rampage Coming To Nintendo Switch

The hit 8-bit Grand Theft Auto style game is coming to Nintendo's latest platform in a couple of weeks! (Source: http://vblank.com/20170719_...

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