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# Running out of real lives, your Valentine’s Indie Day plans, and a Dark Horse Witcher surprise?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/running-out-real-lives-your-valentines-indie-day-plans-and-dark-horse-witcher-surprise/
- Published: 2013-10-07T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:10:59.000Z
- Description: Welcome to the working week.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, cheat sheet, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Happy Monday! And what better way to start off the week than pondering the age-old question: What if, when we died in a videogame, we *really died*? [New Scientist has you covered.](http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24325-buttonmasher-the-rise-of-consequences-in-video-games.html?full=true&ref=killscreen.com)

Don’t call *Metrico* a puzzle-platformer. This PS Vita exclusive is [a case study in how Sony is winning over promising indies to their platforms.](http://www.edge-online.com/features/how-infographic-obsessed-indie-puzzler-metrico-found-a-home-on-playstation-vita/?ref=killscreen.com)

And then there’s GungHo’s *[Puzzle and Dragons Z](http://tinycartridge.com/post/62992909675/puzzle-dragons-z-looks-great-and-you-only-have?ref=killscreen.com)*[, a smartphone transplant onto Nintendo 3DS](http://tinycartridge.com/post/62992909675/puzzle-dragons-z-looks-great-and-you-only-have?ref=killscreen.com) that hopes to latch onto its massive success in the East with a crazy concept: Buying the entire game all at once.

Blendo Games’ *Quadrilateral Cowboy* took home the Grand Jury prize at this weekend’s IndieCade in Culver City, CA. Nothing like a 56K modem to remind you of the finer things in life.

So IndieCade is over. Sadface. Time to think about IndieCade East! Make your plans: [February 14-16, 2014, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens NY.](http://www.indiecade.com/east/?ref=killscreen.com)

Even Japan is jumping into the indie scene, with last spring’s BitSummit and now [NicoNico’s IndieGame Fest, sponsored by Japan’s equivalent to YouTube.](http://indiegames.com/2013/10/400%5Ffree%5Fjapanese%5Findie%5Fgames%5F.html?ref=killscreen.com)

Fans of CD Projekt RED’s *The Witcher* series and Dark Horse Comics will be pleased to know [the two are collaborating on… something.](http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/10/03/witcher-2-developer-and-dark-horse-comics-tease-collaboration/?ref=killscreen.com) We wont’ know what until October 11th and the plans are revealed during New York Comic Con. But we can safely say: It will be dark.

*Jump on it!*