Sentences with phrase «first indie hit»

At first glance, this seems like a dramatic departure from developer Giant Sparrow's, first indie hit Unfinished Swan.

And just like Gone Home, Fullbright Studio's first indie hit, Tacoma is clearly a narrative - focused game, but you can expect an engaging and fascinating story.

Not exact matches

Other welcome nominations went to Cynthia Nixon and Christopher Abbott as mother and son in «James White,» indie horror hit «It Follows» for best first film and best director, Brie Larson for «Room,» and Bel Powley for «The Diary of A Teenage Girl.»

Pirates of the Caribbean is the first film ever released under the Walt Disney Pictures brand to receive higher than a PG rating (the film is rated PG - 13), and the team assembled to make the film is a virtual Who's who of hot properties: Director Gore Verbinski had a huge hit last year with the spook fest The Ring, Writers Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott were the writing team behind Shrek, Actor Johnny Depp is so extremely selective in his roles no one would ever imagine he'd do a Disney film, Orlando Bloom is fresh off the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Geoffrey Rush has at least one Academy Award under his belt, and Keira Knightley has become a hot property after her performance in the run away indie hit Bend It Like Beckham.

Director: Allison Anders: She's been commercial (directing episodes of the first season of Sex In The City - though no one knew at the time it would be the hit it is) to a total indie freak (even with the upcoming Things Behind The Sun).

The first quarter of the year is a good time to sneak festival hits into theaters and Hello, My Name is Doris fits the indie bill perfectly.

But Yacht Club Games — the team behind the hit indie title Shovel Knight — is the first third - party company to launch its own figure under Nintendo's amiibo brand, and the studio opened up about its experience producing the Shovel Knight amiibo.

Directing tandem Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead first hit the indie movie scene when their feature film debut Resolution took the genre by storm, delivering a skin - crawling psychological haunter that still has people talking.

Alex Garland won the first - time director honor in 2016 for the indie sci - fi hit «Ex Machina.»

And that makes the «Hunger Games» film vulnerable to a newcomer like «Creed,» which reteams writer - director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan — who first worked together on the critically acclaimed low - budget 2013 indie hit «Fruitvale Station» — and brings them together with Rocky Balboa himself, Sylvester Stallone.

Zach Braff's first feature film as a director, Garden State, was a surprise indie crossover hit upon its release in 2004.

After appearing in such indie darlings as «Safety Not Guaranteed,» «Drinking Buddies «and «The Pretty One,» as well as the hit FOX sitcom, «New Girl,» Johnson is a memorable addition to the first installment of the Dark Universe, the shared universe of the rebooted versions of the original Universal Monsters.

Indie horror hit Cry of Fear was among the first batch of titles to be greenlit by the Steam community, and...

Wish I Was Here is Zach Braff's second film as director - his first was the modest 2004 indie hit Garden State - and while it overreaches itself at times, it's a warm, engaging and winningly sincere comic drama.

Kevin Smith is currently in the midst of shooting his indie horror flick Red State (he released the mysterious first photo via Twitter), but earlier this year he had also been talking a lot about his proposed hockey movie Hit Somebody.

Earlier this year, White's script for Beatriz at Dinner was a hit at Sundance and was one of the best indie movies of the first half of the year.

Neon has launched a new red band trailer for the indie comedy I, Tonya, which was a huge hit at the Toronto Film Festival where it first premiered.

Some of the biggest indie authors first got their start in trad pub, while others never sent out a single query letter before hitting it big.

When the electronic revolution started to hit books and a few authors discovered how really simple it was to indie publish, lots of talk started about how writers could get rich by just indie publishing their first or second book, and a few writers actually did.

Although indie bookstores took a hit during the first decade of the 21st century, 2017 gave rise to increased bookstore sales as well as an increase in the number of indie bookstores opening up and holding their own.

Macklemore is the first indie group (an artist or group without the backing of a major record label) in nearly two decades to top the Billboard charts with «Thrift Shop» and «Can't Hold Us»; another hit, «Same Love» celebrates same - sex marriage, becoming a standard protest / civil rights anthem.

For our first season we'll be hitting big ticket topics such as a commentary on the current publishing landscape, how to optimize your book metadata for sales, how to sell your book to indie bookstores, ebooks vs. print books, and how much it costs to self - publish.

A slew of posts have hit the blogsphere following more of the anti-Amazon campaign coming out of the NY traditional media (which reached orgiastic levels this weekend with a Patterson ad and a NYT hatchet job), and volleyed by Amazon calling on indie authors to email Hachette's CEO in an emailed missive I first suspected might be a practical joke.

Back when they first offered the ability to give books away for free for a few days, tons of indie books from unknown authors would hit the top of Amazons list and knock off well known authors whose books were being purchased for $ $.

Xbox Live Arcade helped ease the issue, but the marketplace still needed that first, ground - shaking indie hit.

When I first started dating my girlfriend in high school, Xbox Live Arcade provided a great platform for the first big indie hits, which is how I found out about Castle Crashers.

For indie studio Roll7, it's a scary prospect: the first game with online multiplayer, first game hitting three platforms at once, and their first game buil...

When I first played Square Off on my HTC HD7, I thought to myself «finally Xbox Live Indie Games has really hit WP7 ′.

Polygon's Ben Kuchera will moderate a fireside talk between Matt and Henry, who'll reveal how Crossy Road became a hit indie mobile game around the world, first on iOS and Amazon, and then with a Google Play version co-developed by Hipster Whale and Yodo1.

Inspired by first person shooter classics like Quake and Unreal Tournament, with all the fun of a buildable and destructible environment, DownGate is the new multiplayer deathmatch shooter from Gristmill Studios, makers of hit indie builder XenoMiner.

Psyonix's indie smash hit is making its way to Switch next week, as the soccer car mashup marks its first appearance on a Nintendo platform.

Inside, the spiritual successor to the 2010 indie hit Limbo, premiered at the show, bearing many of the same visual and design traits that made the first game so distinctive.

We have seen various games change their mechanics for sequels, Fallout 1 and 2 were isometric top - down RPGs which become 1st person Action - RPGs, Resident evil went through many stages before becoming first - person in Resident Evil 7, Zelda went from top - down to side - scrolling then back to top - down before hitting 3d... Fear Effect was originally a 3d third - person stealth - action puzzle game yet Fear Effect Sedna has been presented as a fixed - angle top - down isometric twin - stick shooter style which focuses on stealth, action, puzzles and tactics — that is a lot of characteristics and quite ambitious for a small indie game studio.

What does an indie team do after its first big hit?

Developed by a chilean group that goes by the name of ACE team and published by Atlus, the first game was an indie hit for its unique take on first - person action.

So if you didn't have anything to do with your three day weekend this President's Day, maybe you can stay in and catch up on some online games or try the stellar indie hit Rocket League out for the first time.

Liverpool, UK — 3rd November 2014: Award winning indie developer and publisher Playrise Digital are proud to announce that hit micro combat racer, «Table Top Racing» is now fully compatible with all Android TV and Android 5.0 Lollipop devices for the first time!

These announcements included the reveal of a Shovel Knight amiibo figure from Yacht Club Games that unlocks exclusive features for the hit game on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, making it the first indie game to support amiibo technology.

When it first launched, Microsoft promised that the Xbox One would bring players a veritable feast of indie titles and it's certainly delivered on this with hits such as Cuphead and Ori and The Blind Forest delighting players the world over.

In a video posted to YouTube the creative directors of the time travelling indie hit revealed the fact that production on the next Life Is Strange game began about the time the boxed version of the first game was released.

It has been a year since it was first announced but now it finally has a release date — World to the West, the successor to 2013's indie hit Teslagrad, is launching May 5th on PS4, Xbox One, Wii U and PC.

This talk explores these questions through the experience of Lisa Brown, a veteran game designer who has built AAA spaces for first and third - person 3D games, and more recently helped ship the 2D indie hit, «Hyper Light Drifter».

SteamWorld Dig — After its positive reception on Nintendo 3DS, indie hit SteamWorld Dig is making its way to Wii U for the first time.

Last generation its Xbox Live Arcade lead the charge into this brave new world of small - budget indie titles and saw a number of breakout hits including Geometry Wars 2, Braid, and Fez released first or exclusively on its platform.

Wii U Download Software * SteamWorld Dig, Image & Form — TBC After its positive reception on Nintendo 3DS, indie hit SteamWorld Dig is making its way to Wii U for the first time.

Developer Failbetter's indie hit Sunless Sea has received its first major expansion today — Zubmariner.