Zoom – warped minimalist platforming
I must confess, I know very little about Wanderlands, the teeny American developer behind such minimalist puzzle treats as Impasse and Midas. However, Donlan insisted that someone had to write about Zoom, the studio's latest browser game, and I am too frightened of him not to do what he requires, lest he release one of his mad cats at me.
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Minecraft: They mostly come at night
There are reasons to be afraid of the dark. On my first night I’d strayed too far. I’d built my cabin far away from the woods, and I was busy foraging while night began to fall. The world began to darken, but I thought a few more excavated trunks wouldn’t hurt...
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Hot shot: Chasing Aurora
Prepare yourself for prettiness, okay? Chasing Aurora is a new project by Broken Rules, and it's an "explorative 2D aerial action game about the dream of flight." That's good to know, actually, since the title makes it sound like a lightly comic novel of sexual awakenings on the hippy trail in Northern California. Yuck.
Hot Shot: Papo & Yo
Parkin takes a look at Minority's forthcoming PSN title. Papo & Yo, a game which explores the vivid imagination of a young boy growing up in South America, potentially with affecting results.
Minecraft Leg
Yeah, we're all playing Minecraft at the moment. But which one of us is hardcore enough to actually injure themselves while playing Minecraft, eh?
It's Chris.
Read on to discover why he's like a grossly over-evolved duck.
Wolfenstein 3D: free and in a browser? Mein Gott im Himmel!
Greetings lunchtime audience. Get ready to mainline some nostalgia. Not only is Wolfenstein 3D playable in a browser, coyly placed behind little but an age-gate, but the lovely people at the Zenimax/Bethesda/id conglomerate have unlocked all the levels.
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Interview: POP: Methodology Experiment One’s Robert Lach
Art-house music game POP: Methodology Experiment One launches today for PC and Mac.
Hookshot Inc. caught up with its Chicago-based creator Robert Lach to find out more.
Rovio to follow Angry Birds with… complex machines?
Those guys at Rovio, who had a modest cult hit with Angry Birds, have released a teaser video on YouTube, boasting about one billion downloads for their pig squashing physics game.
But it also hints at what's coming next. Clue: it's not Angry Birds 2: Revenge of the Pigs
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Outernauts – it’s Space Pokemon! (we think)
"Have you ever dreamed of a career in cosmic exploration?" asks the teaser video to Insomniac's newly announced Facebook game. "Shyeah!" no doubt comes the reply from the internet. And thus starts the intrigue and excitement surrounding this fresh project from the studio responsible for Ratchet and Clank and the Resistance series.
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Epic Astro Story and love for Kairosoft
I've played the same game four times now. I've developed various games with erotically charged titles in Game Dev Story. I've led a cartoon race team to victory in Grand Prix Story, and I've even not-quite understood the Japanese cultural significance of Hot Springs Story.
Right now, however, I'm charged with the success of Planet Bum - home to intergalactic space gadabouts like James Turk and Jean Vicard.
Hot Shot: Ballistic Special Edition
Radiangames' latest, a Special Edition version of Luke Schneider's Xbox Indie Game hit, Ballistic, hits iOS this week.
Hookshot Inc. takes a quick look at the latest in the developer's string of excellent twin stick shooters.
Gone Home – a new adventure in more ways than one
A couple of weeks ago, three ex-members of the Bioshock development team announced that they had left to set up a new studio, The Fullbright Company, and hinted at an ambitious project. Today, the chaps have posted a little more info on their blog, and it looks to be an eerie adventure set in a deserted suburb – although the two key inspirations suggest something very different indeed.
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