👾 Review: Pixel Ripped 1989 "a feast for your ears, eyes and it seriously scratches your nostalgia gaming itch" 👾 #PSVR #IndieGame

Pixel Ripped 1989 is a feast for your ears, eyes and it seriously scratches your nostalgia gaming itch like no other gaming experience I’ve had on PSVR.

🌴💀Review: Green Hell "When I think of “green hell”, the first thing that springs to mind is the back garden"💀🌳 #GameDev #EarlyAccess #IndieGame @gazchap

Green Hell (Early Access)

Developer: Creepy Jar 

Platform: PC - Steam

Review by: Gareth ‘GazChap’ Griffiths

When I think of “green hell”, the first thing that springs to mind is the back garden at my house, in which there is a surprisingly large variety of flora and fauna, kept vaguely in check by the efforts of my ever-suffering wife and the frankly unexpected level of teamwork exhibited by our six cats.

🐭 Game Title: Molecats "a very unique game with a serious challenge just waiting to be scratched away at" 🐭 #GameDev #Indiegame

Game Title: Molecats

Developer:  Vidroid

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Rating: Ice Cool

Molecats is a game that will definitely divide people, underneath the fun, cuddly and cutesy exterior beats the heart of a lion when it comes to the sheer challenge factor on offer from new studio Vidroids.

🎮🎄 Comfort Is Key: Gamer's Christmas List Ideas 🎄🎮

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Sometimes you just want to hang out at home in your free time and do some serious gaming. Whether you’re stuck into FIFA or feel the need to complete your Final Fantasy journey; you’ll want a comfortable environment so that you can relax and concentrate on what’s important (the screen and your control pad). 

There’s no better time to start thinking about enhancing each game experience; with Christmas around the corner, there’s an array of things to add to your wishlist. The following are some ideas for those who want to set up a gaming haven, where you can sit down, switch off from real life for a while, and get stuck into what their free time has to offer.

🎙️ 5 Video Game Related Podcasts That I Love 🎙️

Podcasts have become a massive part of my video games world.

As I run Games Freezer I feel the need to stay up to date on all things Retro, Indie, and Current Gaming.

The best way to do that for me is using my commute time wisely by tuning into my favourite Podcasts from the world of Technology & Gaming.

🎒 Is this the ultimate Retro Gaming Backpack? 🎒 #PixelArt

"Pix allows you to choose or create your own digital art and display it"

🔄 Review: Windjammers (Switch) "is it awesome? Heck, it’s not even up for discus-sion" 🔄 #Retrogaming #WindJammers

Game Title: Windjammers

Developer: DotEmu (Original – Data East)

Platform Reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Rating: Ice Cool

Data East’s (I can’t type that without hearing the voice-over) 1994 future-sport title Windjammers is one held in high regards by gamers who remember its original release.

💣 Review: 8 Bit Armies "War Has Never Been So much Fun!" 💣 #IndieGame #GameDev

8-Bit Armies has been lovingly created by Petroglyph and is the first game in their 8-Bit styled Real Time Strategy series.

🧔 Interview: Bearded Giant Games "Dark Blue Monkey Chats with Bearded Giant Games About Taking the Plunge into the Unknown" 🧔 #GameDev @DarkBlueMonkey

Dark Blue Monkey chats with Constantine Bacioiu (aka Zapakitul) of Bearded Giant Games about taking the plunge into the unknown.

⚔️ Review: Hero of the Kingdom 3 "A casual game for casual people" ⚔️ #IndieGame #GameDev

Game Title: Hero of the Kingdom 3

Developer: Lonely Troops

Platform Reviewed: (PC) Steam

I haven’t played the two previous games in the series but from what I can gather this is more of the same. 

The Hero of the Kingdom series seems to be geared more towards causal players as the game has the faintest whiff of a story about it but the real focus here appears to be grinding and passing time, two factors that make me feel that this would be more at home on a tablet or phone than a PC.

🚀 Review: Elea - Episode 1 "A flawed futuristic adventure" 🚀 #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Elea (Episode 1)

Developer: Kyodai

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Elea casts you as the titular protagonist who, having lost contact with her husband, Ethan, when his craft ‘The Pilgrimage’ landed on a distant planet, thirteen years later signs up for a follow-up voyage in order to find out what happened to the original crew.

🌄 Review: Seers Isle "An interactive novel with a westernised, Celtic bent" 🌄 #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Seers Isle

Developer: Nova-Box

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Seers Isle follows the story of a group of travellers attempting to work their way to the top of a mysterious island in order to gain the assistance of the strange beings that reside there to aid them in their various personal predicaments. 

💰🎮💰 How To Earn Money From Your Gaming Passion 💰🎮💰

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In pre-internet days, gaming was something we did to kick back and relax at the end of a busy day. From playing Monty Mole on our Commodores to playing Sonic on our Megadrives, we spent our hard-earned cash on games that would entertain us.

Then the internet arrived, and gaming changed forever. It allowed us to become more social, giving us the opportunity to play games online with people from around the world.

It gave us the opportunity to play downloadable games, allowing us to play games almost instantly (unless you were on dial-up), instead of having to trek to the High Street games store for something to play. And the internet gave us the opportunity to do something many obsessive gamers have always dreamed of: the ability to make money from gaming!

🔫 Review: Phantom Doctrine “XCOM Meets The Cold War??” 🔫 @gazchap #GameDev #IndieGame

Phantom Doctrine

Developer: Creative Forge

Platform: PC - Steam

Review by: Gareth ‘GazChap’ Griffiths

As I’m sure many people reading this can relate to, I’ve always had a fascination with spy thrillers, no doubt started by watching one too many Bond movies as a kid and marvelling at how 007 manages to save the world time and again while wisecracking, raising eyebrows and bedding every woman that walks within 15 metres of him.

🌼🌻 Review: The Gardens Between "A Time-Bending Tale of Two Filled with Heart" 🌻🌼 #GameDev #IndieGame @TheVoxelAgents

Game Title: The Gardens Between

Developer: The Voxel Agents

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Rating: Ice Cool

I must admit that I was subtly blown away by The Gardens Between, its genius crept upon me over the couple of hours that I spent in the world of Arina and Frendt, the two protagonists in this wonderful wordless puzzle adventure from The Voxel Agents.

💣 Review: 99Floors "A $5000 prize is up for grabs…but is it worth it?" 💣 #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: 99Floors

Developer: Luke Powell

Platform Reviewed: PC (Download)

Procedurally generated games all have the same question hanging over them, ‘is the procedural generation there to cover up the fact that there was no time to design levels individually?’ 

It’s something that doesn’t really gel with me, I’ve had some good times with games that utilised procedural-generation as a main feature such as Nongunz and Last Encounter but for the most part my experience has been pretty negative and sadly, 99Floors suffers from the usual pitfalls of this particular design quirk.

🌊 Narcosis - Ten Minute Taster - "Under The Sea!" 🌊 #GameDev #IndieGame

🌊 "Deep beneath the sea amongst the killer king crabs,

no one can hear you scream!" 🌊

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🚀👽 Review: Destination Primus Vita - Episode 1: Austin "In space, no one can hear you search" 🚀👽 #IndieGame #GameDev

Developer: Epsilon Games

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Epsilon Games’ first title, Destination Primus Vita, is set primarily in a virtual simulation. As each crew member ‘sleeps’ on their lengthy voyage, the on-board AI, Nim, creates a custom-made simulation for each crew member in order to keep them stimulated during their stasis and generate situations which not only aid their mission against a malevolent alien race called ‘Shatters’ but also work through specific neuroses and personal politics that the AI feels may affect their overall mission. 

🎞️ Marimo - A Beautiful Magazine About Animation & Beyond 🎨 @MarimoMag #Animation #Kickstarter

We love beautiful looking things and Marimo is beautiful...

You need this magazine in your life immediately...

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🧙‍♀️ Review: Azure Reflections for Nintendo Switch "pleasingly tough yet slightly limited pixie blasting bullet hell" 🧙‍♀️ #IndieGame #GameDev

A pleasingly tough yet slightly limited pixie blasting bullet hell title finds its way to Nintendo’s hybrid console