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Open-Source GameGadget Wants To Be The iPod Of Gaming

6:20AM November 22, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Could a little-known company from the UK swoop in and change the way we play, create, and sell games forever. Utilising a device that looks like a super-sized Game Boy Micro? Probably not, but their heart is in the right place. More »


PC

It’s Voxel Carnage In The Latest Look At Voxatron, Going Alpha Soon

9:00AM October 4, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

It’s been a while since we looked at Voxatron, the Robotron-esque shoot ‘em up with blocky, voxelated visuals. The good news? It still looks as sharp as the corner of a voxel. More »


PC

Chasing Aurora Can Be Your Origami Bird-Racing Game

12:40AM September 7, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Confession: I was faking comprehension of Chasing Aurora when I saw it at the Penny Arcade Expo. I don’t blame Clements Scot, the developer who talked me through the video demonstration you can see here. More »


PC

Cobalt Is A Terrific Surprise That Proves The Minecraft Crew Has Good Taste

3:30AM August 29, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

I booked an appointment with the game studio Mojang at the Penny Arcade Expo so that I could chat with the company’s star, Notch, about the next evolution of Minecraft. More »


PC

Minecraft Creator Teams Up With Indie Dev On Inexplicable Game

12:00AM August 19, 2011 | Brian Crecente

I’m not really sure what Cobalt is, but as of today the folks behind Minecraft are helping to make the game, so I’ll assume it’s going to be great and very, very different. More »


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Time Travel Video Game May Be A New Line Of Defence

2:00AM August 5, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

I was already interested in Dr Chris Hazard’s complex time travel war video game when he mentioned the military was interested in it as well. More »


PC

Indie Bundle Adds Five More Games If You Donate Five Bucks Or More

9:30AM August 4, 2011 | Owen Good

The Humble Indie Bundle 3 has now added five more games, and still is being offered for the super-low price of “whatever you want to pay”. Provided whatever you want to pay is more than the average donation, which is $US4.96 as of now. More »


PC

A Game Called Achron And The Theory That Games Would Be Better With Time Travel

8:00AM July 12, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

In the first mission of the upcoming computer game that Chris Hazard, PhD, has been trying to make since 1999, our hero, a man named Holloway meets himself. More »


PC

Brain Workshop Is A Brain-Training App That Might Actually Make You A Little Bit Smarter

6:00AM June 17, 2011 | Shane Watson

Windows/Mac/Linux: Though it may not look very different from other (dubiously beneficial) brain-training games, Brain Workshop is special in that there’s a growing body of evidence to suggest that it may actually succeed in making its players a little bit smarter. More »


PC

Fittingly, There Is Little Time Left To Join The Achron Beta

4:00AM May 28, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

A couple of years ago, I saw an amazing demonstration of a real-time strategy game that involved time travel. But there’s no time to talk about that now. More »