Author: Sean Flint

Slow Down, Bull: First Impressions

*To be clear, this is not a full review, it is just a quick rundown of my first impressions after completing the first three worlds of the game* For those who don’t know, Slow Down, Bull is Insomniac’s first ever PC release. The game was created as more of a design experiment by designer Lisa ...

Categories: ARTICLES, PC

Tags: bull, charity, first impressions, indie, Insomniac Games, new release, PC, slow down, slow down bull, starlight children's foundation

Releases for the Week of April 19-25, 2015

As we all know, keeping up with new releases can be a full-time job, and it’s really easy to miss games that have been on our radars for months. This weekly releases series aims to compile a short and simple list of the major releases of each week. There are some great games on the ...

Categories: ARTICLES, NEWS, PC, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One

Tags: 3DS, Games, new, new releases, PC, PS3, PS4, releases, Xbox 360, Xbox One

Steam Greenlight Spotlight: Garbage Day

Today’s Greenlight standout is Garbage Day, an open world sandbox game where you control a man who is stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque timeloop, meaning that he lives the same day over and over. The first thing that came to my mind upon seeing this idea is that there are no consequences for actions. No ...

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Tags: garbage day, greenlight spotlight, indie, Open World, PC, preview, sandbox, steam greenlight

Steam Greenlight Spotlight: Shop Keep

Today’s Greenlight spotlight focuses on Shop Keep, a tycoon-style game by Strange Fire that puts you in the shoes of a shop keep in a fantasy adventure environment. While this is not a completely new idea, see Recettear, it definitely takes that concept and puts a nice personal spin on it. Shop Keep differs most ...

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Tags: greenlight spotlight, indie, management, RPG, shop keep, steam greenlight, tycoon

Ultimate Chicken Horse: Anger Your Friends

Ultimate Chicken Horse, by Clever Endeavor Games, was a game recently introduced to me by the developers via Twitter. While I had heard of the game prior to the mention, I had not spent much time researching what the game was actually about. In a nutshell, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a platformer that lets the ...

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Tags: indie, kickstarter, level design, local multiplayer, Multiplayer, platformer, ultimate chicken horse

Steam Greenlight Spotlight: Mute Crimson+

https://youtu.be/3WU5ynjQ-Gg Today’s Greenlight picks were looking a bit grim, so I was very happy to come across a game that I found quite interesting. Mute Crimson is a game that had an unsuccessful run on Greenlight in its initial debut, but is now giving it another go and hoping to make it through. The allure ...

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Tags: greenlight spotlight, indie, mute crimson, ninja, PC, platforming, preview, steam greenlight

Steam Greenlight Spotlight: Trench

Today’s Greenlight spotlight is on Trench, an underwater 2.5D shooter developed by Howling Hamster Games. Trench caught my eye because it’s neat visuals and the idea of a shooting game based around a submarine. I’ve always been a fan of underwater environments in games, and there aren’t many games that choose it as their overall ...

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Tags: greenlight spotlight, PC, preview, steam greenlight, trench