This Game Jam Is About Bringing To Life A Computer’s Weirdest Ideas

Orteil42, creator of Cookie Clicker, has a toy on his website that generates random game concepts like “A tycoon game where you stop breathing if you don’t hug chores.” Now, there’s a game jam to make those games real. Insanity Jam is set up around the idea of one-person teams making games based on the…

Seven Types of People You Don’t Want To Watch TV With

Watching TV can be a great communal experience, a thing you love doing with friends and family…or it can suck, depending on the type of person you do it with. Hopefully the people you watch TV with are nothing like the folks in this comic by Dorkly, though. You can check out more great Dorkly…

A Gauntlet For Our Modern Era

I love playing Gauntlet, but sometimes you want something faster, leaner and more aggressive. Indie hopeful The Hero Trap hopes to fill that void. Nikita Mikros (One of the dudes behind the fantastic local multiplayer game Killer Queen) and Smashworx are trying to kickstart The Hero Trap, a multiplayer, dungeon roguelike in the vein of…

Seven Minutes of Uncomfortably Close Calls

And there is only one thing we say to Death: ‘Not today’. ‘Close-call’ videos—the ones where someone narrowly avoids a disaster of some kind—may induce anxiety, but that’s exactly what makes them so thrilling to watch. Uniformedia has compiled some of the best close calls in the last year, and you can watch them all…

Trippy game gets trippy, interactive trailer. Metrico—which charmed the heck out of me when I saw it at PAX Prime last year—offers a small glimpse at the gameplay and design sensibilities inside its infographic, puzzle-heavy world. There’s a bit more about the upcoming Vita release at the official PlayStation blog

Nice, Card Hunter is getting a tablet version. Blue Manchu’s terrific tactics RPG/deck-building game Card Hunter always seemed suited to tablet devices, and now, it’s finally happening. The tablet version will be a free-to-play app, similar to the browser-based original. The release date is still TBD.

You want a game set in a New York City analogue to be made by actual New Yorkers, don’t you? Then go lend your efforts to the final few hours of the Kickstarter campaign for Treachery in Beatdown City. The latest development video captures a bit of how Shawn Alexander Allen and his colleagues are…

Hyper Light Drifter Is the Latest Stylish Indie Heading to PS4 and Vita

It’s getting so that you can’t keep track of them all. Fez, Galak-Z, Pavilion… those are just a few of the buzzed-about games (or proven successes in the case of Fez) that are announced as coming to PlayStation platforms over the few months. Now, Hyper Light Drifter—the sharp-looking action RPG being made by Heart Machine—joins…

Sony 7.1 Headset, PC Pre-Orders, PSN Update For Real This Time [Deals]

The Sony 7.1 Wireless Headset was a surprise top 5 contender in our Best Gaming Headset vote, and today you can grab a refurb. model for just $50- an easy impulse price point. And yes, it does work with the Playstation 4. [Groupon] Dark Souls II Collector’s Edition [PS3] | Back in stock Dark Knight…

Bravely Default‘s Success Is Good News For JRPG Fans

Nintendo announced last night that Bravely Default, the excellent role-playing game released last month for 3DS, sold over 200,000 copies in three weeks in the United States. Sales numbers can sometimes be misleading or difficult to properly contextualize, and while that’d be peanuts for an AAA console game, it’s a great number for a handheld…