What’s in a Name?
If I said, ‘Let’s go play this sweet new MOBA1‘, would you know what I meant? What about if I said ASG2 instead of MOBA? Still nothing? Well how about DotA-clone3? You see, game genres are a confusing...
View ArticleWant to win some awesome gamer gear from JINX.com?
Wait whot? Free loot? Yep, that’s right – Mana Pool has teamed up with J!NX, who were so awesome as to provide us with $150 worth of gift vouchers for their geek shop. Their clothing store is packed...
View ArticleInterview with Six Shooter Games on Sprocket Junkie
We caught up with Dave Loyd, co-founder of Six Shooter Games, which he formed together with Dwayne Knight and Jonathan Hagewood. Dave is a programmer by training, but like most developers in a...
View ArticleGolden Joystick Awards 2011 Winners – Part 1
For those unaware, The Golden Joystick Awards are pretty much the Oscars for the video games. So which games claimed the top prizes this year? Read on and find out! Best downloadable game Winner:...
View ArticleGolden Joystick Awards 2011 Winners – Part 2
For those unaware, The Golden Joystick Awards are pretty much the Oscars for the video games. So which games claimed the top prizes this year? Read on in this 2nd and final part of the article. You can...
View ArticleDragonica Starter Pack Giveaway!
That’s right – Mana Pool is giving away 20 Dragonica Starter Packs and 20 Dragonica Advanced Packs to up to 40 lucky winners. And all you have to do to have a chance at getting your hands on one of...
View ArticleThe Solitary Path, and Finding Your Own Way
“The worth of single-player comes in the form of narrative. As with any good novel, or a finely crafted film. It is the equivalent to literature. While multiplayer is an ill-informed argument. It has...
View ArticleEndless Space – Imperium Aeterna Mod
We’ve put quite a number of hours into Endless Space here in the team at Mana Pool and during this we’ve ran into plenty of things we’d like to tweak or see done in a slightly different way. The...
View ArticleIs Kickstarter Heaven for Indie Games Developers?
Kickstarter, the US crowd-source funding website, has been opened up to UK projects for the first time. With the government considering tax breaks for one of the UK’s fastest-growing industries...
View ArticleWhat has digital distribution done to the gaming industry?
Steam, Origin, the App Store, Gamers’ Gate – it’s hard to think of a gaming world where these titans of digital distribution weren’t there to ease gamers away from the trusty CD-ROM. In this article,...
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