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Kick off the long weekend with free Reprisal

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Have any plans for the long, Memorial Day weekend? Perhaps you should go and enjoy a free, indie game. A game, say, like Reprisal. See, right now Electrolyte and Last17′s Reprisal, a Populous-style, civilization simulation, is a Steam Greenlight candidate. It hasn’t gotten the go-ahead to get onto Steam yet, but the developers think giving more »

Google’s latest surprise is Google Image Breakout

google image breakout

Do yourself a favor right now. Google “Atari Breakout” and then select “Images.” Actually, let me save you the trouble. Click this link right now. You can thank me later.

Pay what you want for The Humble Double Fine Bundle

Double Fine

Let’s face it, there have been plenty of opportunities to purchase games from Double Fine at a fraction of their regular price. But just in case you missed it every single time, The Humble Double Fine Bundle is here for you. For the next couple weeks, you can pay what you want for at least more »

GamerTell Review: Anodyne for PC

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Title: Anodyne Price: $9.99 System: PC Release Date: March 22, 2013 Publisher (Developer): Analgesic Productions LLC. (Analgesic Productions LLC.) ESRB Rating: Not Rated Anodyne. It’s a strange name to give a game, but it reflects exactly what this game intends to offer. From independent game designers, Sean Hogan and Jonathan Kittaka, Anodyne is takes a more »

Minecraft – Pocket Edition sells 10 million copies

Minecraft - Pocket Edition

Minecraft developer Mojang have been celebrating after selling the 10 millionth copy of Minecraft – Pocket Edition. About a month ago, Mojang jumped for joy over the 10 millionth sale of the PC version of Minecraft as well as congratulating Mojang founder Markus “Notch” Persson for reaching 2nd place in Time magazine’s TIME 100 Poll.

Review: Bionic Heart 2 for PC

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Title: Bionic Heart 2 Price: $19.99 ($24.99 for bonus content) Systems: Windows, Mac, Linux Release Date: April 14, 2013 Publisher (Developer): Winter Wolves (Winter Wolves) ESRB Rating: N/A It can be difficult to make a visual novel work. It’s mostly because it’s a pretty niche genre. Part of the reason is the fact that it is kind of a more »

Spicy Horse debuts a card combat game called Hell Invaders

Hell Invaders

Spicy Horse Games, the developers behind Akaneiro: Demon Hunters, just revealed its next project. It’s currently called Hell Invaders, and it’s a card combat game with a real-time strategy twist. It’s going to be released this fall for PC, Mac, Linux and tablets. One of the things that will make Hell Invaders different from the more »

Minecraft 1.6 to contain horses, carpets, leashes and more

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Mojang have released a preview version of the highly anticipated Minecraft 1.6 update known amongst the community as the “Mob Update”. Released under the title Snapshot 13w16a, the preview allows players to test some of the new items and animals that will appear in the update, reporting bugs to Mojang as they find them. The contents of Snapshot 13w16a have have more »

Pet Society, The Sims Social and SimCity Social Facebook games closing

pet society facebook games

More Facebook games are shutting down. This is normally no big deal, except EA is doing it and Pet Society is among the closures. Pet Society is the only one of many Facebook games activated on my account that I still play daily. Most importantly, I’ve been playing it for four years!

Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition retail version has been delayed

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The disc-based version of Mojang’s hit XBLA title Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition has been delayed until June 4th. The announcement was made via a recent tweet by Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb who briefly explained that extra time would be needed to include “the very latest content”.   What this extra content actually is, nobody knows. However it’s very more »