Best of Eurogamer: Special Effect
The 1001-Up.com team attended the Eurogamer Expo 2013 last week and had a great time, but what did we enjoy the most? First up is Kimmy with her choice: Special Effect. When we came back from the...
View Article1001 Previews: World 1-1
Last week we were made aware of a brand new Kickstarter project happening right now. It’s not a new indie game like we usually promote, but something quite different: documentary World 1-1 by Jeanette...
View ArticleHomesick in copyright dispute
Homesick by Lucky Pause was one of the very first games we backed on Kickstarter, back in February 2013. We recently received an update from the team and it sounds as if not all is going according to...
View ArticleLight for The Long Dark
In September we became backers for the atmospheric The Long Dark, a first-person post-disaster survival simulation from Canadian developer Hinterland Studios. The Kickstarter project has now completed...
View ArticleEden Star building a destiny
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been writing about and championing an amazing new game we saw at the Eurogamer Expo 2013 called Eden Star. When we met Flix Interactive, the team behind the title...
View ArticleWorld 1-1 needs your support
Last month 1001-Up.com was fortunate enough get some of Jeanette Garcia and Daryl Rodriguez’s time to talk about their unique Kickstarter campaign, a video game documentary called World 1-1....
View ArticleHomesick is ok – music to our ears
Last month we wrote about how the developers of Homesick, one of the first games we ever backed on Kickstarter, were sadly caught up in a copyright dispute over the use of music in their promotional...
View ArticleObduction has abducted us
As Myst celebrates its twentieth anniversary, creator Cyan announced last month that they are creating a new, first-person adventure that harkens back to the spirit of the classic adventure game. The...
View ArticleAmong the Sleep pushed back
Earlier this year we reported on the success of an original Kickstarter project we’d backed called Among the Sleep. This amazing title was due for release in December this year but it seems as if...
View Article1001 Previews: Stasis
We recently received an email about the Kickstarter campaign for Stasis, an isometric science-fiction adventure game. We have to admit that we hadn’t heard about the title before this – but since...
View Article1001 Previews: Playing With Fear
As regular readers will know, we’ve recently been playing a number of horror games alongside John Heatz, Kevin from The Mental Attic and V from The Verbal Spew Review and scaring ourselves silly. So...
View Article1001 Previews: COIN Impact: Operation Thunderhead
In the current market, when someone mentions the words ‘war game’ it’s only natural to think of big-name epic titles like Call of Duty and Battlefield where you can engage in realistic combat and...
View ArticleKickstarter Round-Up – part one
As our readers already know, we have a S-up-port section here at 1001-Up.com dedicated to impressive Kickstarter projects that have grabbed our attention. We’ve already seen one project come to...
View ArticleSecond time lucky for Contradiction
At the end of last year, Tim Follin kindly answered our questions about his Kickstarter campaign for Contradiction. This week we received sad news that the campaign failed to reach its target; but is...
View ArticleKickstarter round-up – part two
Following on from part one of our look at the Kickstarter projects that have caught our attention so far, we’ll now continue with the second and final part. The following projects are listed in our...
View Article1001 Previews: Aderyn’s Cradle
Update at 07:03, 05 February 2014: We’ve received word that Mojo Game Studios have changed the name of their title to ‘Aderyn’s Cradle’, out of respect for Flying Cafe’s Cradle. Doesn’t make their...
View ArticleBeatdown on Kickstarter
The era of the arcade brawler game such as Streets of Rage is all but dead and gone, which is a shame because they were extremely fun to play. Never fear though as one man called Shawn Alexander Allen...
View ArticleFuture is bright for LAST LIFE
Last week I received an email about a new Kickstarter campaign for LAST LIFE, sci-fi noir adventure game by Sam Farmer. After seeing the gorgeous polygons in the promotional video, I couldn’t help...
View ArticleStasis not standing still
In November we became Kickstarter backers for The Brotherhood’s isometric science-fiction adventure Stasis and scored an interview with developer Chris Bischoff. We’ve now received the press release...
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