Dungeon crawlers with roguelike elements are basically everywhere right now, both on PC and consoles. As such, you’ve got to do something special to get people to pay attention. Kraden’s Crypt attempts to break out of the pack with a few differences. For one, it…
Extrasolar is an incredibly unique video game that launched earlier this year. It is a web-based experience where players remotely control a rover on an alien planet, taking pictures as you go. The goal is to document interesting land formations and even any forms of plant…
Why do characters always steal items in video games? Is there some sort of “finder’s keepers” rule in effect in all these digital worlds? Well, it seems that Treasure Bird in Dreamland makes stealing a plot point. As a crow, you must rob from the…
It’s hard to believe that there was a time before fancy games existed on smartphones and other mobile devices but it was definitely the case! More recently, a whole host of addictive, fun, and even complex titles have shown up – but most are single…
Back in my day, if a player wanted an interesting learning experience from video games they’d play something like The Oregon Trail or Math Blasters. Times have changed a lot since then it seems. Now there are upcoming titles like DAVinCI Flight which teach components of…
It’s weird to look back at gaming’s history and see how genres have ebbed and flowed in popularity. During the 90s it seemed like action/puzzle hybrids were the “in” thing. Although some games remained in Japan, such as Tetris Battle Gaiden, popular series such as…
The Death to Spies PC series began in 2007. Two years later, the stealth game saw a sequel with Death to Spies: Moment of Truth. For a while it seemed that was the end as years passed without a new entry. Death to Spies 3…
Serenity and Diana Discuss Gender and Sexuality in Queen At Arms with Marcus Estrada [divider] Queen At Arms is an upcoming visual novel that was successfully funded not long after going live on Kickstarter. It seems that what genre fans were looking for was a…
Veteran Japanese Gave Dev IndieGogo Campaign Draws Suspicions by Ahmad Khan [divider] X-tactics, by Tokyo based Gamkin, is an “Episodic Urban Tactical RPG by veterans of Square-Enix, Capcom and SEGA. With co-op and location-based treasure hunting” according to its IndieGogo page. The creators of the…
Post Apocalyptic Eastern Bloc Adventure Comedy in Paradigm by Marcus Estrada [divider] Adventure games have proved time and time again that they are far from dead. With that said, outside of a few standouts in the past few years, it doesn’t feel like the…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…
First – Prev – Next – Last Stay tuned every Sunday for a new edition of Under Development! [divider] [author image=”http://cliqist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/julie.jpg” ]Julie Morley is a freelance writer and comic artist from Spring, Texas. She attended the Academy of Art University for two years, studying Animation and Illustration. Whilst here, she learned…
Welcome to our weekly feature, “Question Of The Week.” As you can tell from that entirely original title each week we pose a question to our panel and they chime in with their opinions. No one sees one another’s responses until the story is posted,…
Hear ye, hear ye, extra, extra, or… Something like that. It’s news time. Time for the news. The time specifically set aside for you to read the news. That time. And what a great time it is! This Sunday, I’ll be telling the stranger-than-fiction tales…
There are many resources and workshops out there to get children more involved with both game design and the wonders of programming, but there are very few games that challenge them to program as they play a game. Jaxi: The Robot, created by game developer and…
Retro graphics never fail to win over the hearts of gamers but Creepy Castle introduces a modern twist that could set it apart in the RPG adventure genre. Creepy Castle includes several playable scenarios – each with a different (and mighty adventurous) protagonist, evil doer…