Digital distribution services like Xbox Live Arcade and Steam have enabled the indie games community to blossom in the last few years, enabling small teams and hand crafted titles to achieve attention and success on a scale like never before. Here are our top 5 indie game developers to watch out for in 2012. 1) Jonathan Blow: Braid, The Witness Jonathan and his game Braid has been characterized as epitomising the best of what the Indiegames scene can produce: A product that is highly original, low budget, and dripping with creativity and enthralling gameplay. It is litle wonder that Braid has gone...

Call of Duty just got more life-like. The U.S. Army has teamed up with CTA Digital to produce branded handheld rifle controllers, plus other gear just for gamers, for a variety of platforms. The peripherals are available for PlayStation 3 and Move, Wii, Xbox and Kinect, and Xbox 360. Licensing fees the U.S. Army collects through sales will go toward U.S. Army Morale, Welfare and Recreation programs. Check out the video above to learn...

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- Indie Platformer Super Meat Boy Jumps Past 1 Million Sales As TechCrunch’s resident Super Meat Boy fanboy, I feel like it’s my duty to pass on the good news: Team Meat’s rage-tastic, “Just five more tries. Seriously. Maybe Six.”-inducing twitch platformer has officially cruised through its 1 millionth sale. The official word comes from Team Meat’s twitter account, where they reveal that they passed the 1 million mark sometime last month (presumably thanks to a holiday spike and sales of Humble Indie Bundle...

It seems like every single year is “the year of gaming,” if only because the genre keeps getting bigger and bigger. Everyone thought 2006 was going to be the high water mark with the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii all battling for supremacy. Then 2009 upped the ante with a rush of top-tier, high-selling games. In all the console-focused frenzy, few people expected mobile and social gaming to be so dominant. The Nintendo DS (and its iterations) is the best selling system of all time and smartphones became tiny-powerhouses thanks to intuitive games such as Angry Birds, Cut the Rope and...