Sometimes you just have to sit back and be thankful for indie devs. With the cost of game development as high as it is now, most of the cool new ideas aren’t coming from the big publisher houses anymore. Leave it to ACE Team (creators of Zeno Clash) to come up with something as wacky, original, and...

Game: Magicka Publisher: Paradox Interactive Developer: Arrowhead Game Studios Genre: Action Adventure Price: $9.99 Verdict: A clever take on spell casting during a journey of laughter and occasional frustration. Pros: Fresh and fun spell casting, lots of fun with friends. Very affordable. Cons: Steep...

An unfortunate side effect of living in the Internet age is the fact that games can be released broken with the expectation of mass-patching post-launch. This can happen with smaller studios like Stardock in the case of Elemental: War of Magic or even to bigger AAA games like Obsidian Entertainment’s...

Indie developer Rascal Haven has put forth another effort on the Xbox Live Indie Games named Star Dash. This new title has the player taking the role of their own Avatar in a mad dash to collect stars for points while racing against the clock and the screen itself to complete each of the 100...

Spurred on by an influx of titles from Microsoft’s 2010 ‘Summer of Arcade’ initiative, August saw record breaking sales of 17.5 million dollars for downloadable titles on the Xbox Live Arcade. In a time when games and their budgets represent huge holes impeding the progress of...

So, taking inspiration from the great write up by freelance artist/journalist/awesometastic Becky Lang on the current state of indie aesthetics, I thought I’d do a bit of the same for video game covers, but more in reference to old video game boxart that could be indie album covers… so not...

Game: LIMBO (XBLA) Publisher: Xbox Live Arcade Developer: Playdead Genre: Platform Puzzle Price: 1200 Microsoft Points Verdict: Incredible atmosphere, brilliant physics, simplicity at its best Pros: Exudes character, challenging puzzles, satisfying ragdoll animation Cons: May not be for everyone. In...

Xbox Live fans have a new puzzler to stretch their mental agility.  An intriguing mix of puzzle solving, adventuring, and strategy, BlindGiRl puts the player in the shoes of a girl lost in a world of darkness, where the unknown lurks around every corner. According to the developer, GLPeas, “BlindGiRl...

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is a game that I have been enchanted with from the outset. Everything from the character design to the art style seem fully realized in a way that most games, especially downloadable indie games, often lack. Alongside the game mechanics that find a man obsessed with...

Announced today as a cooperative of successful indie game developers, Indie Fund is a new project that looks to foster the growth of the emerging indie games market by providing an additional revenue stream to budding game designers. The financial backers of Indie Fund read like a who’s who of the...