Kickstarter Game of the Week: Maelstrom

Strategic gameplay doesn’t have to mean slow. Most naval combat games take a turn-based, tactical approach to combat. Developer Gunpowder Games wanted to do...

Planet Nomads Delays Early Access Launch At Zero Hour, Gives Backers Beta

The day before launching Planet Nomads on Steam Early Access, its developers made an unexpected announcement. Worried that the project’s current early build would garner unfavorable...
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Haque Brings Atari-era Nostalgia to Kickstarter

It's become something of a cliché in games journalism to describe a project's art style as 'retro', but if ever there were a game...
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Why Lone Survivor is the Best Indie Horror Game [Video]

Halloween is a time to enjoy all of the spooky things in life. Ghosts, ghouls goblins...and other things beginning with a G. One of...

A Closer Look At Stealth Shooter Red Awakening

In my opinion, Red Awakening is one of the more interesting video game campaigns to have shown up on Kickstarter this month. Maybe because...
Four abstract geometric characters on a gray floor with a dark blue sky.

Dariusz Jagielski Discusses Virus Sim, Computer Virus Simulator

Dariusz G. Jagielski continues to work toward playfully adding to the vast number of simulator games out there with his first project, Computer Virus Simulator. Hopefully...
Go! Go! Democratic People's Republic of Korea!

Go! Go! Democratic People’s Republic of Korea! Sounds Offensive But is It?

When it comes to visual novels, you've got topics that run the gamut from sexy to serious to funny to downright weird. But there...

Dropsy’s Dad Asks For Help Busting Cyber Criminals in Hypnospace Outlaw

Last year I fell in love with Dropsy, a tale about a clown that just wants to make friends. Well, Jay Tholen is back...

Guns, Gore & Cannoli is Gangsters vs. Zombies

  Sometimes, all you want out of a video game is a roaring good time. This is particularly true when it comes to action games...

Writer Geoffroy Vincens Discusses Bending Reality in Across the Grooves 

After creating Along the Edge and Seers Isle, French developer Nova-box has another narrative game in development—Across the Grooves.  Similar to Along the Edge and...

Yooka-Laylee ‘Green and Purple’ Hopes to Patch Over the Brown Smear

Yooka-Laylee is the biggest disappointment in Kickstarter history. There might be worse games the crowdfunding platform has churned out, in fact, there have been....

Play God With Your Friend’s Sleep Cycle in Win or Snooze

I have no problem admitting that I'm a bit of a gamer score whore.  Get me a game on the Xbone and the first...

From Great Horrors, Heroes Arise in Armello

Australian game programming collective League of Geeks has started work on Armello, a digital board game that hopes to truly bring the fun and...
Alien Isolation from Sega and The Creative assembly is a horror suspense game and it's our non crowdfunded game of the month. We compare the original Alien movie to Alien Isolation.

Alien Isolation vs. Alien

Alien Isolation vs. Alien by Suzanne Verras The moment Ellen Ripley discovers the alien in the escape shuttle is when you quiver with fear. She is...
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What We Know About Sci-fi/Mystery Visual Novel Root Double

Root Double is probably not a name that a lot of gamers would have recognised before Sekai Project launched a Kickstarter to bring it...
Stasis is a Kickstarter 2D isometric horror adventure game that's like Aliens meets Sanitarium.

Stasis Boldly Goes Where Man is Not Meant to Go

The future comes in many varieties. We have the vast uptopian galaxy spanning federations. We have the dark and depressing post apocalyptic wastelands of...