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There’s nothing more frightening than sitting alone in the dark, in a hole, with nothing more than a torch, a pick axe, and a rudimentary sword. When the screeches joined in with the zombie moans and groans outside, I considered just leaving them be. I mean, I had a 2 x2 area dug out where [...]
I started playing Minecraft with the assumption that it would be digitized lego blocks. How wrong I was. While many people describe the game in this manner, there is an underlying game mode that many people seem to forget to mention when talking about the game. Survival. I’m not talking your typical survival horror run [...]
So you played the game and put your Let’s Play up on YouTube, but just how well do you know indie games? We’re hosting a massive contest this week to celebrate our return to regularly scheduled programming and as such, we’re giving you a taste of the show now, instead of having to wait for [...]
Slash of Temple of the Roguelike fame has issued an open call for beta testers for his new roguelike, Expedition: The New World. Expedition puts you in the shoes of an explorer being funded by the Spanish crown to journey to the New World. You’ll need to prepare for your journey by hiring a crew, [...]
I wish I could say I was one of those people who is not fazed by scary games or movies. Don’t get me wrong, when they’re done properly I love them immensely for the thrills and chills they provide. I’ve never been in the camp that refuses to partake of the horror genre, but when [...]
Frozen Synapse is a new indie tactical strategy game being developed by Mode 7 Games. If you’re familiar with games like X-COM and Jagged Alliance, the game plays similarly but in a multiplayer setting, where each player is attempting to out-maneuver the other with a twist; once the orders are given, they are executed simultaneously for [...]
Locomalito is a self described homebrew game developer with a bedroom as a headquarters and a pixel skull as a flag. Nevertheless, he has developed quite a few titles that are worthy of your attention, especially if you love the shoot ‘em up genre. I contacted Locomalito (he prefers to use this name as opposed [...]
Well, maybe not exactly. Earlier this year, Tim Denee posted a few illustrations of one of the battle reports generated by his dwarf fort called Bronzemurder on the NZFortress forums. Dwarf Fortress is pretty infamous for its steep learning curve and inaccessible ASCII graphics, but Tim has reminded me very much the reason why I [...]
Ludum Dare is a fast paced video game design competition in which entrants are given 48 hours and a theme to come up with a game. The competition has been around since 2002 and the latest had the design theme “enemies as weapons.” There were over 213 entries and while it’s impossible to go through [...]
#05 – ADVENTURE!
This week is all about adventure games, with the girls exploring Erin...
XBLIG: Get to the back of the dash
November 1st marked a monumental day for the Xbox 360. The dashboard...
#06 – IndiE3
With E3 over now the two girls take a look at some...
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