In our modern, indie- and mobile-friendly games market, the term “old school” gets bandied about frequently, the label haphazardly applied to any phone or PC game with 8-bit character art or a chiptune soundtrack. But the recent dungeon crawler Legend of Grimrock from newcomers Almost Human Games actually earns its right to wear the title… Continue reading Dual Review: Legend of Grimrock
Author: Kyle Mann
Gaming enthusiast and writer for Press X Or Die. I game on my PC, as well as my Nintendo consoles and handhelds.
Review: Solar 2
Think back to when you used to play Grand Theft Auto 2 until the wee morning hours: did you, in the midst of the intense bloodshed and reckless sidewalk surfing, ever think to your past self, “Self, this game would transcend to true greatness, if and only if it were set in space, and I… Continue reading Review: Solar 2
Review: Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
Hey, how’d you like to jet around futuristic industrial compounds, bombarding enemy photon tanks, laser turrets, and fortified bases in a hover tank? Sound fun? Well, it is. Read on for our full review.
Take a Musical Detour
Indie strategy game Detour is out on Steam, and it’s pretty fun. We will, however, reserve definitive judgment for our full review coming soon; in the meantime, the soundtrack has been made available for free.
Friday Freeloader: Super Crate Box
This week’s Friday Freeloader thinks inside the box. I would like to assure you that today’s featured game, Super Crate Box, is of much higher caliber than that awful pun, for which I would like to sincerely apologize.
Interview: Final Form Games Talks Jamestown, Hoagies
Final Form Games is a small startup indie development studio that recently released Jamestown, an insanely fun pixelart shmup, on the PC platform. We got a chance to ask them their thoughts on the game, the industry in general, and of course, sandwiches.
Review: gShift
In the vein of recent perspective-shifting games such as VVVVVV and And Yet It Moves, gShift tries its hand, and mostly succeeds, at creating an engaging platformer with a unique twist. I like it. I like it a lot.
Half-Life 3 Wishlist
Or is it Episode 3? Does it matter at this point? Frankly, they could call it Half-Life 3: Blue Shift 2: Barney’s Fight For Worker’s Comp for all I care, as long as we get the game before the end of the decade. What do we want to see in the third full-length (presumably) installment… Continue reading Half-Life 3 Wishlist
Friday Freeloader Roundup
There are too many free games this week for us to focus on just one, so we’ll do an old-fashioned roundup for your perusal.
Retrospective: TIE Fighter
My favorite flight sim features zero flyable airplanes, no actual historical battles, and has no realistic physics or damage modeling. In fact, it’s set in space in a fictional universe with implausible science, such as lasers that don’t hit their targets at the speed of light, and swords made of energy beams that arbitrarily stop… Continue reading Retrospective: TIE Fighter
Winners: Steel Storm
Twitter followers Revitalize1, Joey_Wilson82, and CentauriaNx, congratulations! You get to drink from the fire hose! Oh, and you also win a Steam copy of Steel Storm: Burning Retribution!
The Addictive Nature of Angry Birds
Angry Birds is unquestionably one of the most popular recent games, being ported to every platform imaginable after its initial release on iOS in 2009. But why is it so addicting?
Giveaway: Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
We’ve got three Steam codes for indie top-down shooter Steel Storm: Burning Retribution, and we are just itching to give them away. Help us scratch that itch by entering our Twitter contest. Read on for full details.
Review: Fortix 2
Based on the same basic rules as classic arcade game Qix, Fortix 2 attempts to modernize the cobweb-covered formula, adding elements and bits and pieces and extending the premise to cover the length of the campaign, but ultimately comes up short on several bases.
Interview: Kot-In-Action Talks Steel Storm
We caught up with Alexander Zubov and Clay Cameron from chock-full-of-syllables indie developer Kot-in-Action Creative Artel, which recently released top-down shooter Steel Storm: Burning Retribution on their e-shoppe, Steam, Desura, and Ubuntu Software Center.