Video Game Review

The final Game of the Page is a bit shorter than expected — Phoenix Heavy is a game jam physics puzzle game created by Extrone, a solo indie developer making Unreal games in India. Players will join a space expedition, getting a crashcourse on rocket science before attempting to warp across the cosmos.

Game demos used to be a thing of the past, or at least that’s what it feels like. Getting to try a small portion of a game before making a purchase has always been a pro-consumer strategy, but these days it seems to be relegated to only smaller indie titles…

More Smol Games — iZBOT is a pixel platformer created by Ruxar, a one-man indie team composed of Daniel Spruce of Australia. Players will live in a post-organic world, where robots thrive and live peacefully. Unfortunately, some organics are still around and threaten this peace. …

Monday Monday Monday — Rasternauts is a sidescrolling action-adventure created by mostlyfictional, aka Liam McGuigan. Players will select one of the many scientists that are working on teleportation technology, only to find themselves stuck in an alternate universe where everything has been vectorized. While there are technically three games within this title, the gameplay…

I’ve talked about Joseph Anderson before and if you ever want to talk about game design at all I think it would be a disservice to not look at his work. He is someone who cares about video games on every level and gives each game he reviews the same…

I think the decline of playing games for “fun” began sometime around the time polygons became the norm and we no longer returned for repetitive gains, repetitive rewards to see who could stack the highest number on top of a pedestal. Sure, while a lot of the 8 and 16-bit…

Multiplayer Shenanigans — Pyramidal Break is a multiplayer game created by Dinamic Creates, an indie studio in Mexico. Players select one of three warriors from ancient civilizations to battle for supremacy of the platform, all in the name of shoving the other one off.