Review: Mark of the Ninja
Rather than draw on corny Ninja tropes, Klei Entertainment’s latest platformer Mark of the Ninja relies on real Japanese history and earned experience in game design. Review…
Review: Intrusion 2
Intrusion 2 drops you into a world ravaged by high-tech weaponry and mechanized tyrants. Strap on your favorite guns, and bring the thunder (and a can opener).
Review: Torchlight II
From indie game developers Runic Games comes the highly anticipated sequel to their award winning dungeon crawler Torchlight. With more content, multiplayer and randomly generated outdoor levels, how does it fare?
Review: FTL: Faster Than Light
FTL: Faster Than Light is a sort of roguelike space sim successfully Kickstarted by indie developers Subset Games that has taken the indie gaming community by storm. Read the full review…
Review: Dear Esther
Dear Esther from indie developer thechineseroom is, quite simply, a sublime inspiration in experiential gameplay. It is also a game that is slippery to define because of its complexity. Read the full review…
Review: Thomas Was Alone
Thomas Was Alone by independent game developer Mike Bithell is the perfect embodiment of the power of an indie game to communicate and evoke thought and emotion. Read the full review…
Review: Galaxy on Fire 2 Full HD
A review of Galaxy on Fire 2 Full HD – the first PC port of the popular space sim from indie developer Fishlabs Entertainment GmbH. Now in Full HD and beyond! Read the full review…
Review: Home
“Home” from indie game developer Benjamin RIvers is a psychologically challenging adventure game that employs pixel art and moral quandaries to elicit a haunting interactive storytelling experience. Read the full review…
Review: Dust: An Elysian Tail
Dust: An Elysian Tail from tiny indie development team Humble Hearts for XBOX Live Arcade is a beautifully rendered, multi-layered platform that forms the near-perfect play experience that is the basis of this review…
Review: Offspring Fling
Offspring Fling! from independent game developer is an easy to pick up, difficult to master platformer offering overing a hundred levels with several interesting twists. Read the full review…
Review: Journey for PSN
With Journey, Thatgamecompany presents a short but incredibly sweet offering. Leave what you know of quest games behind and take a walk to remember…
Review: SQUIDS Wild West
The creation of indie French developer The Game Bakers, SQUIDS Wild West is the sequel to the popular role-playing game SQUIDS, which has had over one million downloads worldwide.
Review: Splice
Tired of waiting for CERN to find the God particle? Feel like messing with life at its most basic level in the search for perfection? Splice has you covered.
Review: The Adventures of Shuggy
To say that there is a glut of 2-D platformers in the indie scene is a bit of an understatement. But The Adventures of Shuggy from Smudged Cat games, stands out. Read the full review…
Review: Fez
Five years in development, huge expectation, multiple pre-release awards and a small legion of doubters later, Fez from Polytron Corp, spearheaded by Phil Fish finally arrived on the XBOX Live Arcade marketplace. Does it climb the pixel mountain and reach the dizzying heights?