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Nuclear Launch Detected On The DS

By Spencer . April 20, 2009 . 11:10am

Indie developer Introversion is leaping on to consoles with Darwina+ on Xbox Live Arcade and, if some intrepid publisher picks it up, Defcon on the Nintendo DS in Q3 2009. The game has a detached look at at global armageddon…

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Darwinia + Multiwinia = XLA rumor confirmation

By Spencer . March 25, 2008 . 7:55pm

Instead of leaving Darwinia for the Xbox 360 as an unconfirmed rumor, Introversion sent out an e-mail blast confirming Darwinia will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade in “early autumn.” The title is actually called Darwinia+ because they will be…

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Darwinia evolves Xbox Live Arcade edition

By Spencer . March 24, 2008 . 5:13pm

It’s been long rumored, but according to the ESRB rating we will see Darwinia on the Xbox 360, probably as an Xbox Live Arcade game. Introversion already released Darwinia for PCs and configured it to work with an Xbox 360…

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Introversion’s next project: Multiwinia

By Spencer . February 27, 2007 . 5:28am

If you’re familiar with Introversion’s works you probably have a good guess of what Multiwinia is. Multiwinia is a multiplayer of Darwinia, which was just re-relased on Vista. Darwinia is a hard game to describe because there is nothing else…

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Details on Darwinia for Vista

By Spencer . February 1, 2007 . 6:36am

  Introversion updated Darwinia with some new features for the Windows Vista release. Darwinia for Vista uses Direct 3D instead of Open GL, which allows enhanced visual effects like the reflective water in the screenshot above and better explosions. The…

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The casual games of Windows Vista

By Spencer . January 28, 2007 . 2:40pm

Windows Vista is coming out real soon and Microsoft isn’t forgetting about gamers. In their new MSN games channel they have a hodgepodge selection for causal gamers to start out with. Some of the games you’ve seen before over Xbox…

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Underappreciated games of 2006

By Spencer . December 31, 2006 . 5:30pm

This year there were plenty of awesome (triple A titles if you must) on the marketplace. Gears of War, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII and New Super Mario Bros. immediately come…

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Nuclear War game changed into support for Santa

By Spencer . December 14, 2006 . 11:06am

  DEFCON is one of those disturbingly dark games. Its tagline “everyone dies” is fairly accurate because that’s exactly what happens when you’re controlling a nuclear war from a remote PC. In the spirit of the holidays, one gamer turned the…

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Chris Delay talks about designing DEFCON: Everybody dies

By Trevor Fehrman . October 27, 2006 . 1:13pm

Trevor: First I’d like to offer congratulations on another excellent title.  What was the inspiration for DEFCON?  Was there a conscious effort to tap into any collective fears your audience might have with regards to the current political state of…

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DEFCON: Everybody Dies

By Trevor Fehrman . October 13, 2006 . 1:36pm

The still nascent IGA’s were rightfully kind to indie developers Introversion with their cult masterpiece Darwinia, and now the underdogs from the U.K. are back to put the fear of God into you (with merely a few hundred nuclear ICBMs)…