Why Canabalt is King
Don’t let Kanye into his Zone
Yeah, this is definitely one to play when you get into work.
What You Playing… Brandon Williamson?
Hot Shot: High Vaultage
Hot Shot: Brick Force
First you and your Lego-ish chums run around building a violent playpen, and then you run amok inside it while bearing arms. It isn’t so much about digging your own grave, as designing your own cutesy-pie mausoleum…
Hot Shot: Hero Generations
Cheap joke about it being a bit like an night on the town in Southend etc.
Anyway, it's brilliant and smart and here's why you should care.
Triple Town creator on the birth of a Facebook classic
We spoke to creator David Edery to find out what makes Triple Town different.
Record Tripping coming to iOS
When Lewis Carroll wrote Alice’s Adventure In Wonderland he was generally pleased with his work, but perhaps had the nagging feeling that the novel lacked a little something.
Close to 150 years later, indie developer Bell Brothers (which is comprised entirely of twins Dan and John Bell) put their finger on exactly what was missing.
Well, to be more precise, they put your finger on exactly what was missing: the ability to scratch, fast-forward and rewind the narrative in the style of a vinyl DJ.
Their game, Record Tripping, takes the disc abusing mechanics of record scratching and... read more
Who Ate All The Cakes?
PopCap, creator of some of Hookshot’s ultimate favourite digital games – Peggle, Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled – is to close down its culinary Facebook title Baking Life (we like to think a Baking Life is what criminals move onto after retiring from a Thug Life) at the end of the month.
This is bad news for two reasons. For one, where the hell does Christian go to bake his “I’m So Sorry” repent-a-cakes every time he does something for which an apology is utterly unnecessary (to be clear: Christian is a beautiful man outside and in, but he... read more
Midas beckons you to enter its web of sin. Please go in.
Goldfinger was the man, the man with a Midas touch. A spider’s touch. (Trombone. Trombone.) Now, though, you too can turn a lady to gold! You don’t even need paint. Just a lovely, sad, free and fiercely clever online puzzle game called Midas.
Your mission? Why, to touch the hand of your beloved. The problem? Everything you touch turns to gold – from the ground you walk on, to the blocks overhead, to the pretty lady you’re in love with. Thankfully, however, a quick dabble in a block of blue will nullify your golden touch – at least until the... read more
Independent Game Festival finalists announced – it’s indie heaven, really
Want to get into indie games but don't know where to start? Well, problem solved – here is where to start. The organisers of the 14th annual Independent Games Festival have announced the finalists in this year's awards event.
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Cut The Rope Now Playable In Browser
Russian studio ZeptoLab’s Cut The Rope fast established itself in 2010 as one of iOS gaming’s big hitters.
The cutesy physics puzzler may not have Angry Birds’ cultural penetration, but it’s remained at the top of Apple’s download charts for a huge length of time now, attention that has resulted in a collaboration with Microsoft to bring the game to browsers for free this week.
Launched yesterday at cuttherope.ie, the game has been developed in HTML5 with the purpose of showing off Internet Explorer 9′s support for the tech.
“In bringing Cut the Rope to a new platform,... read more
