Spate’s Unusual Mechanic
Eric Provan’s Spate, a 2.5d platformer set in a phenomenal surrealist steampunk world where a spate of rain continues to flood a world forced to resort to steam technology, is…
Shadowrun Returns Gameplay Footage Released
Washington-based indie studio Harebrained Schemes has released footage from its upcoming 2D turn-based RPG title Shadowrun Returns, the first look at gameplay since its initial Kickstarter campaign in April 2012,…
Review+Interview: Banner Saga Factions
The Banner Saga is a mature tactics game brought to us by Stoic Studio, an indie group comprised of ex-BioWare veterans. The game trilogy got some major attention earlier last…
‘SEGA Company of Heroes 2’ release date pushed
Sorry to disappoint anyone who has been waiting patiently, but SEGA has announced the official release date for Company of Heroes 2 has been pushed to June 25th, 2013. Company of…
Review: Kentucky Route Zero (Act I)
We’ve all been there, right? It’s getting late. You’re driving down a lonely stretch of countryside, trying to find that one road that isn’t on the map. The deeper you…
Review of Anodyne
The pure ambiance is the star of the game that I played this week, Anodyne, by indie game creators Sean Hogan and Jonathon Kittaka. In this Zelda-clone you play…
Review: The Bridge
There are not many games that capture an atmosphere and play to its strengths in the way that The Bridge does. The hand-drawn world is fairly evocative of M.C. Escher’s…
Super House of Dead Ninjas Steam Release
Finding your way down through the 180 floors of the newly released Steam version of Super House of Dead Ninjas is a challenge of skill and reflex. It is…
Nintendo sued over 3d patent
Former Sony employee and inventor Sejiro Tomita is suing Nintendo of America and Nintendo Company (Nintendo Japan) over what he calls a patent violation. Tomita owns a patent for a…
The Future of e-Sports: Boom or Bust?
The last 3 years have seen e-sports rise from a dying industry, to an incredibly lucrative form of entertainment. Since the release of Starcraft 2 in the summer of 2010…
In-Depth Review of Proteus with Developer Interview
This week I bit off a little chunk of what indie games are all about in the form of a game known as Proteus. It has been labeled as a…
Bientot l’ete Review
Connection. A simple word that defines human interaction. The emotions that go along with such an act are perhaps what we are all searching for at some point in…