🌴💀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...

marimomag.com 

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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

🏎️💨 Pang Man Part 35: Review: Mario Kart VR 🏎️💨 #MarioKart

Pang Man Part 35: Review: Mario Kart VR  

Sometimes you read about a game released in Japan and you wish you could jump on a plane right then and there, just to go play it. For me that game was Mario Kart VR.  I love Mario Kart and the chance to experience it in the Virtual World was something unmissable.

🕵️‍♀️Review: Lamplight City "Welcome to New Bretagne" 🕵️‍♂️ @GrundislavGames #IndieGame #GameDev @BrittRecluseuk

Developer: Grundislav Games

System Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Rating: Ice Cool

Following on from my earlier preview of Lamplight City a month ago, whilst I was completely ensconced in its steamy, conversation-driven detective ways, I was concerned if the depth and immersion could be kept up for the full length of the game and it turns out yes, it can. Good.

⛳️ Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun - Episode 2: Jack Nicklaus Golf - 1992 - ACCOLADE - SNES ⛳️ #Retrogaming #Golf

 ⛳️"Golf has never been so much fun tees off again this week with a dose of Jack Nicklaus Golf on the SNES" ⛳️

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🔫 Review: Star Traders: Frontiers "One of the deepest, most complex experiences I’ve had since AD&D 2nd edition" 🛸 @TreseBrothers @DarkBlueMonkey #GameDev #IndieGame

Star Traders: Frontiers 

Review By DarkBlueMonkey

Like many, I’ve recently found myself turning away from the high-price Triple-A games towards the indie scene for my fix of truly novel gaming. As a long-time fan of the space trading and 4X genre, I’m always on the lookout for really innovative takes on a traditional formula. 

If I’m to get into a game, it needs to have a certain amount of depth in which to immerse my imagination, and it has to be said that few studios do depth like the two-man team of Cory and Andrew Trese.

🏐 Road To Ballhalla - Ten Minute Taster - PS4 - "Ballhalla invites you to grab your balls and get down some holes" 🏐 #GameDev #IndieGame

🎮"Ballhalla invites you to grab your balls and get down some holes" 🎮

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🧙‍♂️ Ten Minute Taster: Mooseman - PS4 "Come Walk With The Mooseman" 🧙‍♂️ #IndieGame #GameDev

🎮 "Come Take A Walk With The Mooseman Through An Alternate Reality. 

There are weird things afoot in the forest..." 🎮

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🚙🚗 Review: Chiki Chiki Boxy Racers "A budget racer fun for large groups in small doses" 🚗🚙 #GameDev #IndieGame

Developer: Pocket

Platform Reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Top-down arcade racers have always been a great genre for parties, most gamers in their thirties and forties will have memories of booting open the arcade doors and strutting  straight over to the triple steering-wheel sporting ‘Iron Man’ Ivan Stewart’s Super Off Road or huddling around a CRT TV hooked up to a Mega Drive, listening to the booming midi drum beats that heralded the arrival of Codemasters’ Micro Machines and there’s probably not an Amiga owner in the world without a copy of Acid Software’s Super Skidmarks in their game stack. 

⛳️ Golf Has Never Been So Much Fun - Episode 1: Hole In One Golf - 1991 - HAL - SNES ⛳️ #Retrogaming #SNES

⛳️"Golf has never been so much fun tees off with a classic SNES Golf Game - Hole In One Golf." ⛳️
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🎴New Game Trailer: Collective "players create and vote on all the cards which get into the final version of the game"🎴

Collective is the Community Created Card Game.

Collective is the first card game to open up its development process to the game’s players. Players can create any card they want with the Card Editor and submit it to the Subreddit, /r/collectivecg. Each week, the top 10 posts are added to the game.

🎤 Wordburglar is Back with another Retro Rhyming Laid Back Rap Groove! 🎤 @Wordburglar

Wordburglar is back with another retro rhyming laid back rap groove!

We covered his NARC HI-SCORE video in August 2017 and now Wordburglar has just released his 6th album of retro, old-school rap entitled "Rhyme Your Business" 

🐢🐢 Pang Man Part 34: Cool Collectibles, The Pokémon Terrarium 🐢🐢 #Pokemon

Last month I went to a retro gaming exhibition in London called Play Expo.

It was a pretty cool event, there were loads of pinball machines, retro consoles, retro arcades (Afterburner, Time Crisis 2, Daytona etc) and even a DeLorean from Back the Future (which you could have a photo with!)

Apart from getting a chance to relive old memories, I was excited to purchase a few gaming collectibles.  

As usual I ended up spending more than my budget but nethertheless I was extremely happy with what I ended up with.

🎧 The LS25 eSports Stereo Gaming Headset is defintely a good looker! 🎧 @LucidSoundAudio

LucidSound^® announced today that they'll be shipping their LS25 eSports Stereo Gaming Headset within Europe. 

Originally Developed to appeal to the eSports community and competitive PC gamers, the LS25 focuses on the features that provide superior performance during tournament play.

The LS25 is compatible with Xbox One, PS4^™, Nintendo^® Switch^™, Mobile and PSVR^™

🌻🔥🌻 Pang Man Part 33: Cool Collectibles, Super Mario Fire Flower 🌻🔥🌻 #Retrogaming #SuperMarioBros

I am rubbish at swimming. If you ask me to go for a run, I can happily keep going for a solid 30 minutes at a reasonable pace. My swimming however sucks. After one length I am exhausted and I stretch in desperation when I get towards the end of the pool. Pretty embarrassing all round.

But anyhow on the odd occasion that I do go to the pool, I console myself knowing that the reception area has a decent selection of free magazines to read.

One of the free magazines that caught my eye is called Shortlist and one particular issue had a photo of a Mario fire flower in a plant pot!

🚜🚛 Preview: TerraTech 🚜🚛 #GameDev #IndieGame

Terratech is an open-world vehicular construction and combat game from Payload Studios, a colourful and surprisingly accessible game that plays out as a mix of Hard truck Apocalypse and digital Meccano.

🧠 Struggling To Perform In Front Of A Crowd - "My video games performance anxiety…" 🧠

Okay so I struggle to play video games in front of others. An activity that is pretty much second nature to me becomes an anxious experience when I’m in a public place with people I don’t necessarily know.

If I’m playing a game with someone in a local co-op scenario then I’m fine e.g. Pro Evo Soccer Co-Op is one of my fave things to do ever (you gotta love a 4 player co op game on PES!)

If I turn the tables slightly and then go head to head, I invariably crumble…

Why is this the case?

⚽️ Episode 28: Dino Dini's Soccer - 1993- Dino Dini - SNES Football Games Were Shite ⚽️ #Retrogaming #SNES #GamersUnite

🎮 "Dino Dini's awesome GOAL! gets the console treatment with a rename and a bit of a polish up. This can't be a tu*rd right?" 🎮

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