Author : Steve Gill
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For nearly 30 years I’ve been enthralled by the magic and escapism of video games. From the highly-pixelated 2D graphics and simple but addictive gaming concepts of the 8-bit era to the sophisticated multiplayer 3D worlds of the modern gaming system, I’ve always loved gaming. These days I'm a massive fan of indie games, but I still find time to play classic Amiga and PC games via emulation and read about video game history.
Well, it wouldn’t quite be Elite: Dangerous without at least some confusion or delay regarding upcoming content, especially with a slightly ambiguous statement like “landing...
Life in the Old Dog Yet? Alien Swarm Expansion Coming to Steam
by Steve Gill
Yo! Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen, because the virtually-forgotten freeware game Alien Swarm is finally about to see some much-needed reinvigoration. Though, unsurprisingly...
Explore a Beautiful Yet Hostile Alien World in Anew: The Distant Light
by Steve Gill
I do very much have a soft spot for games with unique or interesting art styles, so I was immediately wowed by the visuals in...
Indie Freebies: V.H.S: Video.Horror.Story, Cigarettes and Minute of Rage
by Steve Gill
Always short of a few bob and looking for something a bit different, each week I scour the internet for fun, interesting or just plain...
Sunless Skies Rockets onto Kickstarter
by Steve Gill
Ahoy there, Zee Captains! Sunless Skies, Failbetter Games’ successor to the critically-acclaimed and joyously-bizarre Sunless Sea, is now seeking funding over on Kickstarter. Like its...
Memoranda Review
by Steve Gill
Mizuka is a young woman who keeps forgetting her name. She hasn’t slept for 17 days – the invisible old sailor living next to her...
Indie Freebies: CAYNE and Color Wave
by Steve Gill
Always short of a few bob and looking for something a bit different, each week I scour the internet for fun, interesting or just plain...
Enter the Gungeon Resupplied With Free Update
by Steve Gill
Gungeoneers, rejoice! It looks like the fast-paced guntastic puntastic bullet-hell dungeon-crawling dodge-rolling roguelike Enter the Gungeon just got a little bit bigger. Launched earlier today,...
Pixel Art Academy: Learn Art Through a Social Adventure Game
by Steve Gill
When I were a young ‘un, video games and pixel art were pretty much one and the same. Aside from some fairly primitive 3D, the...
Hardboiled Cyberpunk Adventure Neofeud Coming Soon
by Steve Gill
I’m not sure what compels me towards dystopian fiction and hardboiled detectives, maybe it’s because I’m a jaded, miserable git who thinks the world is...
Little Bug Now Lighting Up Fig
by Steve Gill
Back in May 2016 I covered a rather polished proof-of-concept demo for a puzzle platformer called Little Bug. I’m now glad to see that it’s...
Indie Freebies: Raft, Helping Hand and AFK
by Steve Gill
Always short of a few bob and looking for something a bit different, each week I scour the internet for fun, interesting or just plain...
Tropical Bash Free Update Crash Lands onto Killing Floor 2
by Steve Gill
Bringing with it some much-needed sea, sun and sand for its light and warmth-starved survivors, the Tropical Bash free update officially crash landed onto Killing...
Sign of the Times: The Pedestrian Now on Kickstarter
by Steve Gill
I rather liked the short demo of The Pedestrian, which I covered back when I was still opening my advent calendar and savouring a little...
The Dark Beauty of Rain World Revealed on Imgur
by Steve Gill
Like its strange and wondrous inhabitants do to escape the long spells of “bone-crushingly intense rains”, Rain World seems to have been in something of...
Demo Coming and Definite Release Date for Constructor HD
by Steve Gill
System 3’s remake of the classic 1997 house-building simulation Constructor has been subject to more than a few delays, now running a year behind schedule,...
Indie Freebies: Prime Mover and Others
by Steve Gill
Always short of a few bob and looking for something a bit different, each week I scour the internet for fun, interesting or just plain...
Shed Some Light on Night Lights’ 2D Puzzles
by Steve Gill
The background to Night Lights’ mysterious night-time world of murky forests, city rooftops, otherworldly ruins and vast underground caverns is not yet clear. Nor indeed...

