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Just look at this game. Look at it. Game Atelier is back and looking for help to make a sequel to the original Flying Hamster and it looks phenomenal. It’s cute, it’s crisp, it’s clean, it’s well designed, but will it be good? Only time…
In the last few years, we’ve seen… Just… So many damn zombie games to the point where any game featuring zombies is immediately dismissed as “been there done that”. Many games rebrand their zombies by making the fungus or aliens, but not ZeroByte’s Dead Years….
Sometimes you’re having one of those days where nothing goes right. Your car breaks down. You get into a fight with a loved one. Your boss yells at you. You get stuck in line at your coffee joint of choice. It could be anything. Now,…
Inside the G.E.R. Laboratories: First Contact Another View of Paradise Lost: First Contact “The greatest finding of all time.” The leech in the lab coat was approaching my tube, alongside him an unfamiliar face. “A new form of Photosynthetic life.” he points towards in my…
As hard as it may be to believe, not all games on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are platformers, roguelikes, dating sims, or Oculus Rift enabled. Some of the games are a bit more straightforward, like CasinoRPG from GoldFire Studios. Funded on Kickstarter in early 2013 for…
Escape Hatch Entertainment has announced some release dates for their “rebellious stepchild of Wing Commander, X-wing, and Freespace 2” space shooter, Starlight Inception. Given that it’s been exactly two years since the Kickstarter launched it’s understandable if people are anxious to get their hands on…
Red Meat Games have announced that episode 1 of Steel & Steam is complete and ready for purchase. The game is described as a JRPG fantasy steampunk adventure, with gameplay and graphics that harkens back to the classic sprite-based RPGs on the Genesis and SNES. …
There’s Bloom Enough for the Both of Us By Brad Jones [divider] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he arduous development of Studio Fawn’s Bloom has met yet another hurdle in the form of a similarly titled project by students on a game design program at the University of Southern California….
By now you’ve at least heard of the Chaos Reborn Kickstarter campaign. It was put together by famed designed Julian Gollop – of X-Com and Laser Squad fame to name but two of his classics – to bring the world an updated version of his…
Bass roppin’ Shootn’ By Julie Morley [divider] To be frank, Dubstep was not a genre I particularly favor. In the recent years, it has risen to popularity quite strongly and it seems just about everyone I know is knowledgeable of Dubstep. But there is something…
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s a bit of a niche, but there’s a huge audience for train simulation games, and the ground-breaking Trainz: A New Era, currently being developed by N3V Games and successfully funded in December, has just released some info regarding when exactly their game will take…
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]urvival horror, to its long-time friends, is dying off as jump scares and cheap imagery garner all the attention, and many gamers who grew up with Resident Evil or Silent Hill mourn the loss of properly built tension and fear. Now, a few modern-day exceptions…
[divider] Necromancer: Adapt or Die… Again. By Charlotte “Charlie” Humphries Necromancer is giving you the chance to control your own legion of the undead. You have successfully ensured that the zombie apocalypse has happened; now you must defend yourself from the good guys. So throw…
By David Lins [divider] In the old days, video games were tough. This isn’t because developers wanted you to hate them, or to feel challenged: it was because games were pretty expensive, and in order to ensure that parents would actually buy games for their…
I have a strange relationship with retro games; I love them, and I hate them. I love them because they bring me back to my childhood; long summer days in Orange County with the windows open, a pile of snacks, and Red Baron, Wing Commander,…