In the third of his pieces from the Toronto independent development scene, Ryan Hamann meets Dames Make Games. In early August, 2015, I had the chance to travel to Toronto for the annual convention of […]
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The Static Speaks My Name
What if I told you that a free, 10 minute long horror game delivers on BioShock’s medium-defining twist even more memorably than the revered Irrational game? NB: Contains some spoilers. We recommend playing through The […]
Gang Beasts Quick Rinse – Doughboys, Jelly Babies or Morphs?
Darren Gargette talks over pre-recorded multiplayer games of Gang Beasts – a ridiculously funny physics-based drunken brawler (?!) We dunno. It’s off the hook either way. Windows PC Pre-Alpha version 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.3. Probably. If you like […]
Motor Rock Quick Rinse – Rock n’ Roll Racing too
“Who brakes in Rock n’ Roll Racing?” Darren Gargette burns up the circuits in Motor Rock, an indie ‘tribute’ to 1993 16-bit isometric racer Rock n’ Roll Racing available – for now at least – […]
Electronic Super Joy Quick Rinse – Lady sex noises
“Ooh la-laaa!” Darren Gargette plays the in-your-face 2D platformer formerly known as Techno Ninja: Electronic Super Joy. This is the Windows version of the game which is also available for Linux and Mac OS X […]
Ethan: Meteor Hunter (not so) Quick Rinse – parts one to four
Darren Gargette takes on tricky puzzle/platformer Ethan: Meteor Hunter from Seaven Studios for PC and PS3. In the first of four videos Darren kills the game and then puzzles his way out of many levels […]
Thomas Was Alone – Be there or be square
“We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers” Darren Gargette gets into shapes and squares up to give us a Quick Rinse of Mike Bithell’s indie puzzle platformer Thomas Was […]
Proteus: A musical amble through retro wonderlands
If there’s one thing we have plenty of in games right now, it’s everything associated with violence. Violence, swearing, punching people in the mouth and staving their heads in with the butt of an AK-47. […]
The Basement Collection: What’s underneath Edmund McMillen’s headspace?
Watch in horror as Darren Gargette fails to grasp the basics human reproduction in Ed McMillen‘s Coil, and several other games which make up The Basement Collection.
La-Mulana: Darren G Wants to be Indy, is more like Mutt
Another helping of punishing dungeon-delving in an updated La-Mulana Darren Gargette decides that Spelunky wasn’t challenging enough for his tastes so immediately dives into the 2012 remake of GR3 Project’s La-Mulana; another 2D Indiana Jones […]
Super Mario Bros + Portal = Mari0
What do you get if you cross the original Super Mario Bros. with Portal? The answer – Mari0 – and a somewhat confused Darren Gargette, is what! Interested? Then why don’t you check out the […]
Spelunky
Darren G. confronts Derek Yu’s formidable Rogue-like Spelunky Rewind to 2008 and you’ll see the same baby-faced Darren as you would now but one as yet without the mental scars caused by becoming a Spelunky […]