Why are you driving?
A calm voice drools out of the radio: “And that was Pinky’s Dream by David Lynch.” It’s just past two in the morning, the sky is a byzantium purple above the highway, and the radio host starts telling me about the ...
The Oregon Trail was many people’s first video game, and they spent their time sitting in an elementary school classroom and hoping they didn’t break a wagon wheel or die from dysentery. What’s the one thing it was missing? Space. Cue Orion Trail, ...
In the rampant world of action-adventure games, Itch.io recently released a game developed by nine bright and wide-eyed student developers from the University of Pompeu Fabra. Coming straight from Spanish grounds, the students, or as they like to ...
Insomniac Games has continued ‘The Schmelling Incident’ - the catastrophic cosmic event in Seedling - and released Strangelets. Seedling was their 2018 AR (Augmented Reality) game, which is essentially the backdrop for their newest and final Indie ...
Murders. They could be funnier, if only the right detective was on the case. This is where Rumpus Animation’s Bertram Fiddle comes in, using sharp wit, various Victorian clockwork machines, and the help of his one-eyed assistant, Gavin, to solve a ...
Shield Break Studios (an indie conglomeration filled with veterans of Blizzard Entertainment, Riot Games, Activision, NCSoft, and Certain Affinity) just released the debut trailer for their very first game as a team, titled Bierzerkers, full of ...
Bombservice’s skills have only increased with each new entry in the Momodora series. An action platformer in the vein of games like Cave Story, the series is now entering its fourth iteration, tentatively called Momodora IV. With such leaps forward ...
For the most part, Xbox Live Indie Games have been defined more by their quantity than their quality. Of course, the openness of Microsoft’s indie storefront is what makes it admirable, but it has nonetheless resulted in all manner of games ...
Game jams and competitions spawn a lot of unique titles, born from a combination of complete freedom and a complete lack of time, and Mickaël knows this all too well. He is the developer behind GUILT, a short 2-D mix of stealth and horror, in which ...
1. Aaru – from the Egyptian meaning ‘reeds’; the Fields of Aaru, an Egyptian heavenly paradise where Osiris ruled
2. Awakening – an act of waking from sleep; an act or moment of becoming suddenly aware of something
You are ...
Elliot Quest is about a boy who’s been possessed by a demon, but you might have to do a little legwork to learn that. The game doesn’t do a whole lot of talking, letting gameplay take first priority while it hints at the longer story within. When ...
A wild IGM appeared!
Today I get to make a really exciting announcement that I’ve been wanting to blurt out for a while: IGM and hitbox (stylized with a lowercase “h”) have come to a partnership arrangement to help springboard indie ...
