The shocking truth behind Super Hexagon creator’s score scam
Hookshot Inc. carries out its most ambitious and rigorous investigation yet, into the dark mind of Terry Cavanagh, creator of VVVVVV and Super Hexagon, a man who will stop at nothing to cheat his customers out of glory.
Ubisoft Digital Day – une conversation Parisienne
Last week, Christian and I attended the Ubisoft Digital Day in Paris, sampling several of the publisher's forthcoming mobile and downloadable titles. For some reason, we decided to present our findings as a dialogue. Blame Paris.
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Game of the week! Qrth-Phyl
Okay, so Game of the Week isn't actually a regular thing, but I thought I needed to fire it up today because Qrth-Phyl is out.
Qrth-Phyl? What's that?
Super Hexagon: The joys of waiting
I was looking in a shop window earlier today and it made me think about looking in shop windows. I'm not about to launch into the first bars of The High Street's Dying (and Isn't It Sad?), but I thought I might riff for a few horribly muso moments on Hey! What Happened to Waiting? I'll have my back turned to the audience throughout, obv.
The Hookshot bundle watch
This week's look at the indie bundles that will turn your hard-earned cash into armfuls of digital games* (*actual digital games do not fill arms)
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On the download #7 – Hero Academy
On The Download is Hookshot Inc's official comic strip, drawn by friend of the site Timothy WInchester.
For this special back to school edition: Hero Academy.
Modern Classics (sort of): Snake
Time for some history righting. Over the past few years laurels have been placed on the brow of many and varied games and platforms for spreading the lure of gaming to the casual and mass market. Angry Birds, Words With Friends, Draw Something.... but what about the gem that kickstarted mobile gaming? What about Snake on the Nokia 6110 handset?
Voyager: the way you make me felt
Voyager is an endless flyer (although, technically, it's not endless) created from bits of sheep (the wool, not the squidgy stuff).
Hookshot Inc. takes a stop-motion look.
Year Walk: Sweden’s interactive answer to the Wicker Man?
The makers of Bumpy Road have turned to horror and mythology with their latest title, Year Walk, a mysterious first-person adventure set in the snowy woods of Sweden
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Play for play’s sake
Games - video or otherwise - offer one of the most effective means of learning.
But Parkin wonders if there's another kind of play available to humans too, a more honest, more pointless pursuit: play for play's sake.
Granny Smith: Your elder and better
You can't help but think the makers of Granny Smith could've jazzed up their game name a little. Grannies? Grannies aren't cool, while my memories of the popularity of various members of the Munch Bunch suggest that apples aren't down with the kids (in 1987) either.
Super TIME Force – ingenious game mechanic, funny trailer
Just a quick 'heads up' as they say in gaming parlance, about the new trailer for Super TIME Force, which is funny and reminds us what a great game mechanic this thing has got on it.
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