Limbo

Well, you know, that game, Limbo, the one that was nominated for the Technical Excellence and Visual Art awards in this year's IGF. Its mailing-list just sent out the first announcement.

The announcement is included below, but for those of you too lazy to read it, it basically says that Limbo will be released this summer... on XBLA!

What's this!? Well, guess those of us without a XBox are going to get stuck with nothing... Well, hopefully Limbo will pull a Braid and come out with a PC release later on, or else this will be a very, very sad day :(

As if every other website hasn't already reported this to death, the finalists for the 2010 IGF main competition have been revealed.

There were some expected winners, as well as a few surprises. Quite a few people seem unhappy with the fact that VVVVVVV didn't make it... maybe it's a sign that Ciellus needs to be finished? Hah!

Another interesting read is the IGF judging process, check it out, it's neat.

Now, for the very few who saw this here first, below are the finalists in no particular order:

Sometimes I think I need to change the slogan (speaking of which, do we even have one?) of this site to "Bringing you news from yesteryear" or "Making old news new again!" Whatever, entrants to the 2010 IGF has been announced, seems like this year we have a record number of 300+ entries...

More entries is always a good thing, but that also means there are more games to comb through to find the real gems. One thing I seem to notice though, is that it's becoming harder to tell the "favorites" that will likely make it into the final round, either the overall quality has risen, or there are no blockbuster titles like World of Goo or Everyday Shooter, which at the time were expected to at least make the finalists.

Nonetheless, here are some of the titles that caught my attention as I went through the list of entries...