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Gone Fishin' indie bundle now live with seven indie games
Indie Royale's latest gaming bundle is now live, and features seven indie games. Labeled the "Gone Fishin' Bundle," the pack will be available for the next full week, and includes Seamless Entertainment's SOL: Exodus, All Zombies Must Die! by Doublesix Games, and Squids, the colorful RPG from TheGameBakers.VectorGeddon and Cubemen from 3 Sprockets are also included in the the bundle, alongside two platforming games by Magiko Gaming: Platformance: Temple Death and Platformance: Castle Pain. Each game in the bundle is available for PC, and some are on the Steam and Desura platforms. Check out the trailer for the entire bundle above, and head over to Indie Royale to buy it.
Napoleon: Total War free this weekend on Steam, SOL: Exodus only $5 today
Steam has a pair of deals worth checking out right now for Napoleon: Total War and SOL: Exodus. First up, Napoleon: Total War is free to play from now until Sunday at 1PM Pacific time. If you like what you play, the game is currently half-off for $10, which is a lot of strategy for something so little -- much like Napoleon.Also half-off today only is SOL: Exodus. The indie flight sim may not by the grandest space adventure ever digitized, but for $5 there's plenty of value in playing a genre we haven't seen much of in the last ten years.%Gallery-145245%
SOL: Exodus flying to all digital distribution systems, European retail this summer
Space combat invigorater SOL: Exodus is heading to European boxed retail this summer and all digital distribution systems shortly. Developer Seamless struck a deal with publisher Iceberg Interactive to the bring the game to physical shelves in the UK , Ireland, Scandinavia, Benelux and other territories beginning June 22."SOL has definitely been a labor of love for us, and we can't wait to hear from fans and players from around the world." Seamless Studio Director Dan Magaha said, "As a small indie developer working in the town where Wing Commander was born, it's been an enormous honor to build our homage to the classic space games we loved when we were young, and we hope that passion comes through in the quality of our work."SOL: Exodus launched on Steam earlier this year and, for whatever hiccups it may have as an indie project (many smoothed since launch), it's still totally worth it for $10.%Gallery-145245%
RealD tech heightens 3D programming on Unreal Engine 3
Epic is broadening Unreal Engine 3's stereoscopic 3D capabilities, with RealD technology now available to any users in Epic's paid licensing program and to users of the Unreal Development Kit, the free version of the Unreal Engine 3 toolkit. The RealD update is included in today's May 2012 UDK Beta download.RealD allows developers to render PC and console games in stereoscopic 3D, with camera separation and 3D depth effects rendered in real-time, among other features. The first Unreal Engine 3 title to use RealD is Seamless Entertainment's SOL: Exodus, which received an update on Steam today to include 3D effects.Unreal Engine 3 first received stereoscopic 3D capabilities in 2010 with TriOviz. TriOviz was used in Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, Arkham City, Thor: God of Thunder and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.RealD is used in many other high-profile 3D endeavors, including films such as The Avengers, and the forthcoming titles Prometheus and The Amazing Spider-Man.
SOL: Exodus demo available now, update soon
SOL: Exodus, the $10 downloadable title that honorably brings the space combat sim into this generation, now has a demo available for test pilots. The demo covers the full prologue mission, which includes the basic tutorial and sets the stage for the "escape the solar system before it blows up" campaign.Seamless Entertainment is also working on another update for the game, which will be available in the coming weeks. Version 1.12 adds mission checkpoints, difficulty levels, cockpit view, collision damage and "virtual joystick control."So, go ahead and try out the demo, and consider supporting this genre that desperately screams in the vacuum of space to return.
SOL: Exodus attempts space combat genre reignition Jan. 25
Evoking the legacy of the Wing Commander and FreeSpace series, Seamless Entertainment's SOL: Exodus is an indie game that seeks to re-energize the space combat sim genre. Powered by Unreal Engine 3, the game grabbed our attention late last year, and is now set to launch January 25 on Steam."SOL: Exodus is a chance for gamers to get back to some real fun in a genre that's lost its luster in recent years," said creative director Chris Stockman. "We want to revive space combat games. People today want epic games and tense, action-packed experiences and we believe we've done that with SOL: Exodus. The game has huge battles and in some cases you are fighting against very large capital ships, which you can take down on your own. It's a blast in so many different ways."SOL features an eight-mission story that covers the first half of a campaign to rescue refugees fleeing the impending supernova. Standing in the players way is a fundamentalist faction of humanity that believes those not consumed in the explosion are damned to an even hotter place.The game will launch at $9.99, with players making it to Titan (a moon of Saturn) in the first installment. DLC in the coming months will head to "Jupiter, Mars, Earth and the final battles closer to the Sun." Hmm, isn't that the opposite direction of a supernova exodus? Then again, SOL: Facing Disaster Head-on doesn't have the same ring.Update: Now with trailer.%Gallery-145245%
See SOL: Exodus' space battles in gameplay video
Now that we've got adventure games fairly well resuscitated (yes, we're taking all the credit) our next target is the space shooter. And no, we don't mean guys from different planets shooting at each other (that's already roughly 74 percent of the market). We want to get behind the throttle of our own ship, fly in any direction we please and, perhaps most importantly, make much larger capital ships explode by shooting exposed vents. SOL: Exodus, a downloadable space shooter coming to PC and (maybe) consoles from Seamless Entertainment, is doing its part to help us realize the dream. We got a look during PAX, and were hugely relieved to finally find a space sim that's not mired in the past. For starters, there's the "slide" mechanic, which lets you shoot in any direction and immediately redirect your ship without having to fight momentum or an unwieldy turning radius. Purists may complain, but it made the ship feel responsive in a way that most modern gamers would likely expect. SOL: Exodus also features a bit more interactivity than we're used to from the genre, such as the ability to hack into enemy defenses to help turn the tide of a seemingly hopeless fight. Here's hoping that Seamless' baby can be a similar turning point in our struggle to bring back the space opera.
