First post of the 2009! The biggest, and greatest news so far is that Crayon Physics Delux will be released on Jan 7th, and those who pre-ordered will get it on the 4th, yay!

Big Crayon Colored News
- CPD to be released on January 7th.

2D Boy Interview Part 1 and 2
- Part 2 is actually here.

Happy new year from Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel
- A 1.33GB free download.

Comic Market 75 Day 3
- First-hand experience of a doujin game maker at Comiket 75.

2ch ownership transferred to Packet Monster Inc.
- Just because 2ch is huge.

It's almost the end of the year, meaning tons of end-of-the-year lists and special holiday sales are around the corner! Before we go on, though, I'd like to do a bit self-promotion by reminding ye all that Tsuki-kan has received a major overhaul in terms of content, check it out!

IndieGames: Best Freeware Arcade Games 2008
IndieGames: Best Browser Arcade Games 2008
IndieGames: Freeware Games by cactus 2008
IndieGames: Freeware Games by Jesse Venbrux 2008
- Check here for more updates.

the bonte games: 2008 top 10 web games

Wolfire Giving out Free Copies (Serial Numbers) of Lugaru

Lexaloffle Holiday Special :: All games $5 off!

Venture Arctic is free until the New Year

Steam Holiday Sale (Indie Games Edition)
- And finally a round-up of of indie games on sale on Steam. Phew!

World of Goo's 90% Piracy Rate
- Very interesting read...shame of those who dare to pirate our beloved World of Goo!

Crayon Physics Deluxe out in January 2009 or Even Next Week
- According to the official release date here, and a forum post here.

IGF Mobile Announces Judges For 2008 Competition

Finally done with school for now...one more semester and it's Graduate School time! *sigh I'm getting old* Oh and happy birthday to me =D Anyway, judging by the number of "Best of 2008" lists popping up everywhere like mushrooms...you can sort of tell we're getting close to the end of 2008, or is it the other way around?

2008 Game of the Year Awards
- Keeping checking this link for updates.

Free Indie of the Year 2008
- A video report from Bytejacker on the "Top 10 Indie Game of 2008" as voted by "you".

Top 10 Indie Video Games for the Holidays
- Yay, World of Goo is #1.

EnvComp: An IF Environment Competition
- I think IF stands for "Interactive Fiction"...more info on the competition here.

A present from the D-Pad crew
- A preview of Owl Boy, a game that I thought for sure was gonna enter this year's IGF (I still haven't managed to find it on the IGF entrant list).

2008 Game Developers Choice Awards Opens Nominations
- This is really just a press release...

Aquaria on Steam for $16, Behind the Scenes
- How about a non-Steam version for $16? kthxbye!

ZUN on Touhou and derivative works
- Worth reading if you're a Touhou fan.

Tried to upgrade the site to Drupal 6, realized how much work I needed to put on remaking the theme as well as various other stuff...no way I have time for these things, upgrade pushed back indefinitely...

15 Indie Games for the Holidays
- Pretty good list, makes for a good Christmas wishlist.

al|together 2008 translation festival
- And life is good.

Melty Blood Release Flurry
- Yikes, sensory overload.

Black Friday Sale - Get Cortex Command for $9!
- This weekend only!

428 gets perfect score on Famitsu
- Famitsu and GameSpot sitting under a tree...

Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of Nov. 28th
- Trying to break into the industry, this might be your chance.

Sakura-Con 2008: Hiroki Kikuta
- An interview with Hiroki Kikuta, best known for composing game music for games such as Secret of Mana.

Tutorial: How to Sell Games as Shareware
- A.k.a. how to make money off of your game.

Since I just beat World of Goo (a game that should be played by all), the first part of this post will be mostly about WoG...aaargh to the Euros who get to play the extra Moon level!

World of Goo for Mac is READY
- Now even the "cool" crowd can enjoy building towers of goo!

Leaderboards, Fiction, and Fisty the Cover Model
- Think you're better than everyone else? Prove it!

World of Greenhouse
- More than one way to get WoG.

Fate/stay night English v3.1 released!
- Yayyyyy, now English fans can finally enjoy Fate/stay night the correct way (as opposed to staring at the CGs). Get an update patch here.

TIGJam:UK Reminder, and Indie Arcade Eurogamer Expo
- Expo in the U.K.

So I've been addicted to World of Goo lately...however, thanks to the great "crash" bug, all my saves and OCDs are gone, GONE! A post on the frontpage or a notification of an updated download would have been nice...ARGH!

Immortal Defense Version 1.1 Released
- Tons of new levels, lots of bugs fixed, a new level editor, as well as a preview of their upcoming game Saturated Dreamer. This is (was) a great day for tower defense fans.

2008 UA Winners Announced
- And the winner is a game for Mac...

Konjak's New Game
- From the creator of the awesome Noitu Love 2.

TIGSource Interviews Matthias Nagler
- "The first person to produce an 8 simultanous player SNES game (N-Warp Daisakusen)."

IndieGames' IndieNews October 19th
- A link-post to a link-post, segmentation fault!

Game Patch back online
- More translated VN in the future?

So much for regular updates...

Demake Compo: Results!
- My predictions sucked.

TIGCompo: Commonplace Book
- Beings: Oct 17, End: Oct 31. Surely such a short time frame will affect the quality/quantity of the games submitted? (Update: The end date has been changed to November 27th due to popular demand, what did I tell ya?)

Aso Taro Starring in an Eroge
- No matter how you look at it, Aso looks like a bad guy in that game...

TGS: Sense Of Wonder Night Showcases Indie Innovation
- I should just stop working on my SoWN post.

Kongregate Labs Launched
- Teach yourself Flash!

Mother 3 Translation Released
- If you know what Mother 3 is, then get very excited.

Unity Awards 2008 Audience Award Voting Begins
- The award will be announced on October 24th.

Knytt Online World: Sneak Peak
- More Knytt is always good.

TIGJam: UK
- TIGSource and Beatnik Games joins forces.

2009 IGF Announces Full Judge List, Reminds On Deadline
- Do you know who they are?

I'm still alive, just very busy (not that anyone cares anyway, though).

Crayon Physics Deluxe is Being Worked On
- And it'll cost you $20.

100 Game Maker Games in 10 Minutes
- The full list of games can be found here.

50 MMF Games in 10 Minutes
- Um...a very original idea...not.

IF Comp 2008 Entries Available for Download
- A whopping 65MB.

Korea’s online mmo eroge D.A.T.E online
- Cyber sex anyone?

Inside A North Korean Arcade
- Be glad you're not living in North Korea.

Maybe it's the end of summer, new posts on many indie game blogs have slowed down...

IGN Independent's Day 1
- A new feature from IGN, all about indie games.

IGN Independent's Day 2
- And this one's focused on Multiwinia.

Game Developer - Gesundheit! Postmortem
- A cool behind-the-scene look at the yet-to-be-finished game.

Sense of Wonder Night 2008 Finalists Announced
- Expect a full post on this sometime soon.

Game Development: Construct, musagi, protoshop
- A useful round-up of game development tools.

Well, real life is too busy, ugh.

World of Goo has gone gold
- About time! Woot!

Interviews: Cactus, Jonathan Blow, Moonpod, Tarn Adams
- IndieGames Blog links to tons of interviews.

Retro Remakes 2008 Competition
- Yet another competition.

Machinarium Preview
- A nice preview of the upcoming point-and-click game from the creator of Samorost.

Chunsoft x Type-moon = 428
- Anything TM is good news.

Eroge production
- A very interesting look into the industry of eroge.