Oct

31

Indiefest: Osmos and AI War

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Another day, another couple of indie titles that may pique your curiosity!
Osmos [link], released a few months ago by Hemisphere Games, is something I failed miserably to mention at the time. Continuing the trend of ambient chillout games with which you can switch your brain off for a while, this one features a nifty absorb [...]

Oct

30

Indiefest: Machinarium and Eufloria

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There’ve been a lot of good indie productions released this month (and in previous months when I’ve been slacking), so it’s probably time to catch up with a few…
First, from Amanita Design, comes Machinarium [link]. The winner of this year’s IGF Excellence in Visual Art award has been a long time in the works but [...]

Oct

20

Just My Tuppence: Mondo Medicals

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This isn’t going to be a hugely long read, folks, because… well… this game isn’t hugely long. But at the suggestion of Madamluna through Twitter last week, I could hardly refuse to at least give it a try!
Mondo Medicals [link, about halfway down the page] is a game from prolific Swedish developer Cactus. [...]

Oct

18

Play Zolyx in your browser

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It seems like a few of you who’ve stumbled across the site were looking for a way to play Zolyx, the classic Commodore 64 Qix clone, in your browser. Well, look no more! It’s taken long enough to get around to setting it up, but you can now do so on this ‘ere subpage:
Play Zolyx [...]

Oct

13

All Steamed up for Torchlight

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To continue with a similar theme…

Runic Games just announced that their hotly-anticipated action RPG Torchlight [link] will be available on Steam from the first day of release (October 27th). Previously you’d have had to wait an extra month if you wanted to buy the game this way, but there’s no need for [...]

Oct

13

An XLent mod for Diablo II

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Followers of my random outbursts on Twitter might be aware that I’ve been playing the Median XL [link] mod for Diablo II lately. Personally I blame my reacquaintance with the action RPG king on the growing hype around the release of Torchlight [link] later this month, but that’s another story that I’ll save for another [...]

Oct

10

Just My Tuppence: 5 Days a Stranger

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Amongst the many game genres I admit to not being a massive fan of, point-and-click adventures rank right up there with bullet hell shooters (ugh) and beat ‘em ups (bleh). However, earlier in the year, a work colleague badgered me into playing a little ol’ game called Broken Sword – and to my pleasant surprise, [...]

Oct

8

Mind the gap

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Gaps are dangerous and can cause terrible accidents. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an actual physical gap, e.g. the one between the platform and the tube train, or a more immaterial gap between, e.g., blog posts.
Here is a handy illustration of gapspace that you may wish to carry with you in order to safeguard your [...]