If games like Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Splatoon are any indication, this generation of shooters is going to be a whacky one. Sony just fleshed out its newest entry in this emerging category of insane-looking projectile simulators with a trailer for VizionEck, a monochromatic shooter I do not understand… » 7/11/14 3:30pm Yesterday 3:30pm

Catlateral Damage has evolved into a fairly accurate simulation of your stereotypical asshole cat. Perdictably, though, it no longer has the "genre" to itself. » 7/10/14 10:00pm Thursday 10:00pm

Creating a video game and releasing it to the world is an incredibly complicated process. But why should I even try to explain the nuances of modern software development with last-gen mechanisms like "words" when we have these amazing things called GIFs now? » 7/10/14 5:30pm Thursday 5:30pm

Though its Kickstarter didn't perform all too well, indie parkour game Lemma is still alive and in active development, as evidenced by its new (and quite good-looking) trailer. In a comment on YouTube, Lemma's lead developer gave an optimistic release date estimate of January on PC. » 7/10/14 4:00am Thursday 4:00am

Suggested reading: Michael McMaster's thoughts on Mountain. "It's not aspiring to anything greater. It's iconography. This is fine." » 7/09/14 9:29pm Wednesday 9:29pm

This is Ashen. It's "an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home". It looks awesome. » 7/08/14 10:00pm Tuesday 10:00pm

Indie developer Stéphanie Rancourt emailed me the other day with a proposal. She wanted to see if I was interested in the space game she was working on. Little did she know it was about as much my thing as a video game can get. » 7/08/14 8:00pm Tuesday 8:00pm

Broforce is one of the best games of 2014. It's now a little better, a little Broier, after a weekend update added two new Bros and some other stuff. » 7/06/14 11:00pm Sunday 11:00pm

Oh boy! Multiplayer shooter NeoTokyo, the classic Half-Life 2 mod that you'd be forgiven for thinking disappeared a long time ago, has just been released on Steam following a lengthy Greenlight campaign. Meaning, hopefully, a whole new crowd of people get to experience one of the slickest mods ever made. » 7/06/14 8:30pm Sunday 8:30pm

While the world (and financial backers) anxiously await the release of Rock Simulator, developers VAMflax have stolen a little thunder by releasing a rival game that's already playable. » 7/06/14 7:30pm Sunday 7:30pm

The magical time-traveling metroidvania, Timespinner, has managed to reach its Kickstarter goal. It is currently working towards two stretch goals, a PlayStation 4 port and a PS Vita port, for which it needs to collect an additional $13,000 and $23,000, respectively, in about three weeks. » 7/03/14 4:20am 7/03/14 4:20am

UK-based mobile developer Neo_UK is trying its hand at PC game making with Congo, a co-op survival horror game set in Central Africa. It looks quite promising and sports some pretty neat lighting and particle effects. The trailer's above, and you can find out more over at the game's Steam Greenlight and Indie DB pages. » 7/02/14 6:30am 7/02/14 6:30am

When I was 12 I didn't like school much — who did? But if someone told me I didn't have to go to school and could use the spare time to do whatever I wanted? I'd probably just spend it trying to break my speed records on Super Punch Out!! I tell you what I wouldn't have done: worked my ass off to create a critically… » 7/01/14 11:55pm 7/01/14 11:55pm

It's hard to take your eyes off those magical floating tire tracks. » 7/01/14 9:00am 7/01/14 9:00am

If you'd asked my teenage self what I wanted the classic SWAT series to look like in 2014, I'd have first asked that it still actually be around in 2014. Since it's not, though, Due Process - an indie multiplayer shooter - is getting pretty close. » 6/30/14 8:00pm 6/30/14 8:00pm

To most folks, Rock Simulator 2014 is an internet joke. To some, though, it's an opportunity to throw some cash at the way of the game's "development team". » 6/29/14 8:52pm 6/29/14 8:52pm

Indie developers are always on the lookout for people to give them feedback, so it's not uncommon for them to release a public alpha. All the better for you! » 6/27/14 2:30pm 6/27/14 2:30pm

The Journey Down is one of the best-looking games around, thanks to its exquisite hand-crafted visuals. The first chapter of the point-and-click adventure has been available for ages, but the second chapter is finally on the way, and it looks great. » 6/26/14 10:30pm 6/26/14 10:30pm

If you didn't like the way things were panning out in survival sim/trouserless apocalypse Rust, that's cool. The developers are chucking it in the bin and starting over. » 6/26/14 7:52pm 6/26/14 7:52pm

This is Timespinner, the next big PC indie platformer (I'd say metroidvania, but people don't like that word). It's being developed by Lunar Ray Games, a studio headed by an ex-Bungie employee, and it looks quite excellent. » 6/26/14 5:30am 6/26/14 5:30am