The ability to slow down time, or even stop it, whenever you please. When you are still, time is still. In a first person shooter this sounds pretty freaking advantageous if you ask me. The ability to just halt to strategize your movements and avoid…
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Campaign Postmortem: Blackmore By Brad Jones [divider] [dropcap]E[/dropcap]arlier this year, iQiOi Co. launched a Kickstarter for Blackmore (or Blackmore’s Bane), a steampunk adventure game that intended to take full advantage of a development team made up of industry veterans from both America and Japan. The…
Jasmine Greene Discusses Once Upon a Runner By Julie Morley [divider] Once Upon a Runner is a side-scrolling mobile runner adventure created by SaltyPepper Games. Currently in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign attempting to raise $5K for Once Upon a Runner, lead designer Jasmine Greene…
Harmonix is known for some of the most popular and influential music oriented games out there, like the original Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Central. But Amplitude is the game that paved the way for music games all the way back in the early…
OMORI – A World Beyond These Walls By Julie Morley [divider] Welcome to White Space. He has spent his days stuck inside a white room for as long as he can possibly remember. There’s no information about how Omori got stuck in there, all we…
Most horror games made these days follow the same formula, and although it’s a formula that works most of the time, it’s also one that’s beginning to get a bit stale with some gamers seeking a bit of variety. These games are first or third…
Hanakai Studios Puts The World At Your Finger Tips In Prodigy By Peter Nolan-Smith [divider] Players interact with their games through buttons, joysticks and the occasional light gun. The controller and keyboard has more or less stayed the same since the early days of the…
Kickstarter Turns 5 – The First 5 Kickstarter Games By Greg Micek [divider] Did you know that it’s been exactly 5 years since Kickstarter launched? That’s 5 years of video game projects spanning every genre, platform, and quality level. We thought it appropriate to take…
Adam Jeffcoat Discusses The Breakout By Greg Micek [divider] Cliqist : We have seen so many “Reformed Thief turned Air Force Capitan turned Prisoner in WW2 escapes prison” games. What makes The Breakout different? Adam Jeffcoat : Haha I am embarrassed to admit I…
What Makes A Game… Fun? By Nathaniel Liles [divider] We live in a time that many believe to be “lacking that retro charm”, and many people are convinced that games simply are not as good as they used to be. I’m not quite convinced yet,…
Joe Williams Discusses Serpent in the Staglands By Greg Micek [divider] Joe Williams, of the husband and wife team at Whalenought Studios, recently took some time from his schedule to talk to us. We didn’t waste time talking about the weather or the Cubs’ unfortunate…
Wasteland 2 – Early Access Review By Mitchell “Moe” Long [divider] In 1988, an inventive game called “Wasteland” oozed into computers. Fast forward to 2014, and “Wasteland 2” has graced computers after a long respite. Such a lengthy wait between titles is almost unheard of,…
Campaign Postmortem: Wasteland 2 By Brad Jones (Click here for our Early Access review of Wasteland 2 the game.) [divider] [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen the Kickstarter for Wasteland 2 began, it seemed to many that the lofty funding goal of $900,000 to make a sequel to a…
Rehearsals and Returns Reviewed By Nathaniel Liles I can’t say I’ve always been a fan of “art games” because it seems that these days the definition of “art” is “random, vaguely topical non sequiturs assembled without connection or reason to make someone think there’s meaning…
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…
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…