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Braintonik has announced the release of Strimko a puzzle game that is trying to be as popular or more popular than Sudoku. The game has some stiff competition to be better than Sudoku, but it is good to have a goal. Strimko uses the same concepts as Sudoku, but adds another dimension called streams. The streams [...] Continue reading

Big Head Games has announced the release of Revs! for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The game brings old school racing to new devices. Old school racing games are the good old ones with 8 bit graphics, such as Super Sprint and R.C Pro-Am. Players have the option to play the Championship and attempt to conquer eight different [...] Continue reading

What a year to be indie. We've had tons of amazing games come out within the past 365 days; I'm sure we all have our favorites. Mr. "Meat Boy" McMillen compiled his top ten Flash games, and the fine gentlemen at IndieGames.com made a list of their own. I humbly suggest that Tim and Michael had a couple glaring omissions in their list, but this could be attributed to the strength of the titles that came out this year. The following are nothing more than personal preference, I actually encourage you to discuss your own favorites. Without further ado, here's my top five.

5. -- Captain Successor
Modular Lego construction, Asteroids shump-ness, and real-time player-generated content... all in one title? Throw on top of all this an open-ended Roguelike progression system and you have a game that is mathematically proven to be awesome. And for you that haven't made the upgrade from Forever yet, you really are missing out. My ramming spike monstrosity (with bubble shields, natch) could totally kick your ship's ass.

4. -- RunMan: Race Around the World
This game is just really, really, fun. If we didn't have the stiff competition of the two platformers below this would have been an easy game of the year. Screw Sonic -- how 'bout that banjo music?

3. -- Home
This game moved me. The gameplay brought a tear to my eye, all the while having assests that would be at home on an Atari title. Forget Rohrer-what's-his-name, Stephen Lavelle is the king of the art game. Check here sometime next week for further proof.

2. -- VVVVVV
This is one place where Tim, Michael, and I agree on. I love this game and it's still only in beta. If it weren't for a couple of 4chan dicks said beta would still be available, but the wait is indeed worth it. I mean every word of my review. I wish I could have grown up playing it, so I could have fond memories of the game right now.

1. -- Mother effing Spelunky
This game changed the way I view the medium. This is the future. Derek Yu opened the Pandora's Box of procedural generation for real-time games and there isn't any going back. I've played for countless hours and hundreds of playthroughs and I still can't get enough. I've felt the joy of exploring a world Metroid-style, blowing up giant spiders with a shotgun straight from Doom, and feared for my life in a dark jungle level infested with ghouls -- all in one playthrough. This is by far my favorite game of the year, and it's high up there on my all-time list. It makes you excited about the future of our medium, doesn't it?

(Honorable mentions should go to both Doom, the Roguelike and the iPhone's Hook Champ for devouring a good deal of my time this year as well.)

Gourmania is a casual game for the PC that Alawar has ported to the iPhone/iPod Touch. The game combines two popular genres of casual games, hidden object games and restaurant business simulation games. Players have to stir, chop, shake and bake their way to a great restaurant. Players start out slow with owning a small cafe, [...] Continue reading

PopCap Games has announced a free to play flash version of Plants vs Zombies. The game is only available on PopCap’s website. Now players can experience the game that has had the greatest opening success so far. In case you are not familiar with Plants vs Zombies, it is a tower defense type game, where players [...] Continue reading

Pocket Fish is a relaxing game for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The game makes it easy to own a fish tank, no cleaning necessary.  Granted, in this fish tank you have multiple fish, but can only see one fish at a time, so it may not be a great substitute for a fish tank. The game, [...] Continue reading

Go Home Ball is a physics type game written in flash. The goal of the game is to get the ball home, as the name implies. The ball is lost in the forest and it needs to get home. The challenge is there are gaping holes in the ball’s path. Players are given sticks and other [...] Continue reading