SXSW Gaming Award Winners
Game of the Year Award The Last of Us from Naughty Dog Excellence in Gameplay Award Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons from 505 Studios Excellence in Art Award Bioshock Infinite from the newly-closed...
View ArticleSouth By Southwest Gaming Expo
South by Southwest is almost a month of interactive, film and music shows, held annually in Austin, Texas. The festival is known for emerging music, launches of innovative tech startups, professional...
View ArticleGobliiins Trilogy Review
Developed in the nineties by French developer Coktel Vision, the Gobliiins adventure games were already a trio of niche oddities. Now the trilogy’s made it to Android and, with its bizarre art, strange...
View ArticleMines of Mars
Imitation is extremely common in game development, especially in the burgeoning realm of phone and tablet entertainment. It only took a minute or two of playing Mines of Mars to realize it was in many...
View ArticleBroken Sword 5: Serpent’s Curse – Episode 1 Review
Kickstarter has become the place for old folks to spend their money recapturing gaming’s glory days. Well, I was around for those days and there were good things, but also bad. The goal should be to...
View ArticleSpider Webz Review
Spider Webz could have been fun with a few tweaks to the game. It takes the concept of Cut The Rope and subverts it in an interesting way, but it’s not programmed well enough for success. Spider Webz...
View ArticleNoir Syndrome Review
The resurgence of noir in gaming is something to be excited about. Even for those of us who haven’t scoured eBay looking for replica Maltese Falcons, or who only have second-hand nostalgia about Bogie...
View ArticleMonument Valley Review
Simple controls, a sparse narrative, economical sound design, and graphics based around basic geometric shapes make Monument Valley the new poster child for minimalist indie gaming. Developer ustwo...
View ArticleVVVVVV Review
You may know Terry Cavanagh from a little game that frustrated you to insanity called Super Hexagon. Before that, Cavanagh made a platformer called VVVVVV. It wasn’t quite as streamlined as its...
View ArticleNotable New Release: Retaliate
Roman I XVI’s new scrolling shooter Retaliate blast onto the Play Store earlier this week, and has already garnered some pretty positive feedback. Retaliate is a retro style shooter for Android with a...
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