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 where you, instead of playing a gun blazing hero, sit at a desk and [...]

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 including Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest as part of the package. Score! I thought [...]

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 controller. So, what took so long?
 
I suspect Microsoft was waiting to release Darwinia plus [...]

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 like it. In the game players guide the evolving fractal life forms to safety and [...]

 
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 Vista version also supports the Xbox 360 controller and has three new levels: Jailbreak, Stronghold and [...]

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 Live like Crystal Quest and Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. Four of the games are actually [...]

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 to mind. However, each year there are some great games that fail to grab the [...]

 
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 macabre to merry Christmas where you help Santa deliver presents instead of guiding nuclear missiles. [...]

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 the world or is large scale thermonuclear war something that you guys consider perennially interesting?
 
Chris [...]

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) in their finely honed RTS Defcon.  As the commander-in-chief of your choice of one of [...]