Old friends: an ode to Defence of the Ancients
This article originally appeared in issue 246 of PC Gamer. Some people think that gaming is a solitary hobby. But for me, DotA was a way to connect with my real life friends through an experience that...
View ArticleAce of Spades: hands-on with the indie cube-shooter. Just don’t mention the...
Imagine smacking a huge Jenga tower over with a shovel. That approximates the feeling of gleeful destruction you get from Ace of Spades – a brick-based first-person destroy-em-up, in which you blast...
View ArticleLong Live the Queen review
“Reader, I married the gross creepy dude to prevent a war.” This is probably how my crown princess’ diary would end. Also, she would say, “I am proficient at military strategy and swording people in...
View ArticleHypersexed Hypertext: Porpentine and the Twine text game revolution
Porpentine is a game designer, writer, and curator for freeindiegam.es. She primarily makes Twine games, which are choose your own adventure style games that are accessible, short, and welcoming. You...
View ArticleRedshirt preview: a sci-fi “disempowerement fantasy” about social networking...
“The ultimate job is to be the commander’s assistant,” says Mitu Khandaker, the developer of Redshirt. Why not the commander? “Because this whole game is a disempowerment fantasy. If you want to play...
View ArticleDead Island: Riptide review
Dead Island: Riptide, the maybe-sequel or sort-of-expansionpack to co-op zombie RPG Dead Island, shipwrecks you once again – on a new Dead Island island that looks and plays exactly the same as the...
View ArticleWill Love Tear Us Apart: a study on music, miscommunication and broken...
Gordon Calleja’s online game Will Love Tear Us Apart sets itself up against the song: each chapter is based on a verse of the morose Ian Curtis lyrics. It’s impossible to extricate the two from each...
View ArticleSilhouette: a free hunter vs. hunted horror game that will make you panic
Silhouette by Manikin Games is all black-and-white and French film-looking, but it’s no noir. It’s a free little indie game for PC and Mac that is more likely to make you hit the person sitting next...
View ArticlePostmortem: choose a victim, change a nation in this free game about politics...
In free JRPG-looking politic-em-up Postmortem you play Death, and you are on your way to a dinner party to kill someone. Your orders are to kill only one person, it doesn’t matter who; The Secretary...
View ArticleHotline Miami 2: Wrong Number hands-on
Warning: due to the content of Hotline Miami 2, this preview includes discussion of sexual violence. Last year, a top-down melee-machine of a game was released: it was neon, vibrating and crushingly...
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