Microsoft announced the top winners in the Dream.Build.Play 2o11 Challenge, and the fantastic platformer, Blocks That Matter, ran away with the the Grand Prize. It was selected from a pool of more than 250 entrants developed from 27 countries using Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio 4.0, and developer Swing Swing Submarine will net $40,000 for their efforts.
Bit Cultures writer Conner plays through his Steam library in alphabetical order, writes a brief summary of his experience on each game, and then gives them his own personal rating. Here's week 10 of Steam A to Z. This week - BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Blocks That Matter, BloodRayne: Betrayal, and Borderlands.
Swing Swing Submarine has shared that Tetrobot and Co., "a sort of (spiritual) sequel of Blocks That Matter" will release in early 2013 on Windows, Mac, Linux, and various touch devices.
BNR: There's a ton of great deals thanks to the Because We May sale- so many that it's overwhelming. Here's a selection of some games that are definitely awesome.
its nice when large companies help indie developers imo.