Stunt Dummies step into the breach whenever we as humans feel like we couldn't handle that situation on our own, they suffer and measure our pain, just in case. In Kathleen Ruiz' explorational game they also suffer our mental and ...Read More
Oh, how all the beautiful things in life fade away eventually! How all the struggle is in vain! Things I Never Did is Scott Warren's take on the baroque subject of vanitas, compiled in a short platform game. You start ...Read More
Navigating a maze in search of shiny treasures is one of the archetypical joys of computer gaming. You avoid monstrous enemies, bag the gold and run. But little did you know how much such an operation can cost - when ...Read More
What a mean fellow! Took the radio controlled toy cars away from the kids and broke them. And then replaced them with rocking horses. And then glitched the whole nice game that once was Re-Volt so it is not even ...Read More
Click stairs and move. The 16th floor is a goal. Cooperate by oneself?
You couldn't put the message behing Cursor x10 any clearer. You are a cursor, and you must help your fellow cursors, which all become your alter egos within ...Read More
Pragaras is hell. The game start by teaching you how to inflate a balloon and ends with a poem about a nuclear explosion. In Lithuanian. Oh, and pragaras means hell in Lithuanian, too. Your avantagarde character and you are sent ...Read More
I am a big fan of simple games that are bloated with overly complex theoretical constructs to make them special in a certain way. I like to see video games as a means of transporting intricate social or cultural issues. ...Read More
Your first decision: jump or run. You can't do both. You can not Jump&Run. Genre convention #1 deconstructed along the way, 30 years of continuous jumping and running, gone at a single blow. Molleindustria's Paolo Pedercini manages to break the ...Read More
Surveillance. The lovechild of technology and restrictive governments. The key to social order and stability. The title of Martin Le Chevallier's game Vigilance 1.0 already suggests that in 2001, there was much more to come. While in his game you ...Read More
Some years ago, the New York Stock Exchange finally installed a defibrillator. The heart attack rate had become 60 percent higher than the national American average. Good for those dealing in Hewlett-Packard stock: They had recently bought Heartstream Inc., a ...Read More