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Spaceteam 9 Apr 2013 | 12:42 am
Spaceteam is a crazy, highly creative little game that has more of the feel of a party game than a digital one. Like FTL, it's a kind of spaceship command sim, but the games could not be more unlike e...
Strike of the Eagle 26 Mar 2013 | 05:30 am
Strike of the Eagle (Sote) is a modern war boardgame, incorporating many contemporary game mechanics such as hidden orders, fog-of-war, diceless combat, and a card-driven system. As with many card-dri...
Hotline Miami 24 Mar 2013 | 11:10 pm
Hotline Miami is a brutally difficult, brutally violent, top-down brawler and shooter. With retro, 90s-style graphics, it has something of a feel of a Sega Genesis game -- not a SNES one; Nintendo wou...
Kentucky Route Zero 24 Mar 2013 | 09:07 pm
Kentucky Route Zero is a beautiful visual novel with something of the timeless, surreal feel of Southern Gothic fiction, though without the elaborate language of Faulkner. The graphics are simple yet...
Uncertainty in Games 7 Mar 2013 | 07:15 pm
In crunch mode at work, which is why there haven't been updates here for some time. However, as of tomorrow, The MIT Press releases my book, Uncertainty in Games. There are a lot of books that attem...
Bowling Solitaire 15 Jan 2013 | 08:38 am
Solitaire, also known as Patience overseas, is a class of puzzle games played with a standard French 52 card deck. The most popular is Klondike Solitaire because it is bundled with every version of Wi...
Modern Art-Modart 19 Dec 2012 | 10:06 am
Modart is a fanware implementation of Modern Art, one of the best Reiner Knizia's auction games. Each player is an art broker and speculator, buying paintings low to sell high. It has been published i...
Cantrip 17 Dec 2012 | 01:40 am
Cantrip is a game from a student team at DADIU, the Danish National Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment. Implemented in Unity, its models are textured with hand-drawn, cross-hatched illustrat...
War of the Human Tanks 12 Dec 2012 | 03:05 pm
War of the Human Tanks is a very strange Japanese title, localized into English by Fruitbat Factory, a company that specializes in doing so. Its gameplay is somewhat Advance Wars-like, though unlike ...
Zendo 12 Dec 2012 | 04:08 am
Zendo is an inductive reasoning game by Kory Heath. Heath reworked Eluesis, a game designed to play with a standard 52-card deck by Robert Abott. Eluesis was first published in Scientific American, Ju...