🏎️💥🏎️ Accident | EARLY ACCESS | Review | PC | "It’s nice to be making situations safer and administering first aid." 🏎️💥🏎️ @PixelHunted @games_glob #IndieGames #GameDev

You’re pootling down the road and realise something is wrong up ahead. There’s been an accident: cars turned into jagged balls of metal and glass, fuel dripping ominously onto the asphalt, the pained groans of those cut to ribbons… and ominous silences from other vehicles. 

Nobody else is around - time to step up the plate and save some lives. 

But how? Where do you even begin?

💣 My 13 Favourite Video Games Weapons 💣 #Retrogaming

A few days ago I decided to compile a list of my personal favourite video games weapons from over the years. 

These are the weapons that have stuck with me over the course of decades of gaming. 

They either have a special place in my heart or they are just damned cool.

Either way I've come up with 13 beauties, so let me know what your favourites are...

♌️♈️♋️♓️♊️ This is the Zodiac Speaking | Review | PS4 | "In short, I was in the zone" ♌️♈️♋️♓️♊️ #zodiacthegame @zodiac_the_game #IndieGames #GameDev

Game Title: This is the Zodiac Speaking

Platform Reviewed: PS4

Rating: 5/10

A cool idea based on real-life crimes marred by esoteric implementation and some relatively serious technical issues.

In a happy coincidence, I had watched David Fincher’s 2007 slow-burn thriller Zodiac only weeks before receiving This is the Zodiac Speaking for review and, having a close friend harbouring dark obsessions with serial murderers, I was already acquainted with the heinous, unsolved crimes that plagued California in the ‘70s. 

In short, I was in the zone.

⚽️ Players Worth The Investment In FIFA 21 ⚽️

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FIFA is a gaming series which has been around since 1993 and every year since has brought out a new edition improving graphics, mechanics, and updating teams. 

FIFA 21 is the latest addition to this legendary roster - bringing Volta Football back with improvements after FIFA 20, and also bringing with it Ultimate team once again that features 100 iconic players. 

✈️ Airplane Mode | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Join Me On A Flight To Nowhere!" ✈️ @hosoji #GameDev #IndieGame

Airplane Mode is a game where you play as a window seat passenger for the real-time duration of a long-haul commercial flight across the Atlantic.

Airplane Mode's gameplay explores the airline travel experience down to every last detail—from the design of your seat and the seatback in front of you to the contents of your carry-on bag and smartphone hard drive to the behaviours of cabin crew and other passengers.

The circumstances of your flight will change every time you play. Simply put, Airplane Mode is the most realistic flight simulation ever created. Sit back, relax, and enjoy.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/931310/Airplane_Mode/

🥏 Disc Room | PC | Ten minute Taster | "7 Deadly Discs!" 🥏 @devolverdigital #GameDev IndieGame

Are you ready to get sliced in half? 

In Disc Room The year is 2089 and a giant disc has appeared in orbit of Jupiter. 

Step into the oversized space suit of a brave scientist and explore this sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229580/Disc_Room/

🕵️ Gamedec | Preview | ‘cyberpunk’, ‘combat-free’ ‘isometric’ 🕵️ @GamedecTheGame #IndieGames #GameDev

Anshar Studios’ Gamedec was completely unknown to me until I stumbled across it on a press release. After reading briefly about it, some keywords stood out; ‘cyberpunk’, ‘combat-free’ ‘isometric’ all terms that ruffle my hair and feed me good bourbon.

🚀 Elite Dangerous Horizons | Ten Minute Taster | PC | My Space Driving Test 🚀

Elite Dangerous is continually evolving, adding new features, narrative and in-game content with each new season. Elite Dangerous is in ongoing development, with a number of free and premium game updates available to expand the core Elite Dangerous experience.

🚀 Space Crew | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "CHARGE THE HYPER DRIVE!" 🚀 @CurveDigital #GameDev #IndieGames

 

Space Crew is the brand new strategic simulation game, boldly taking you where no one has gone before!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1176710/Space_Crew/

💥 Necromunda: Underhive Wars | Review | PS4 | "The World is A Dark Place" 💥 @NecromundaUW #IndieGames #GameDev

The world is a dark place.  As winter creeps in (the clocks have just gone back meaning it’s pitch black by 2pm), I am drawn to darker games. No Animal Crossing escapism for me. No, it’s dungeon crawling and shadowy places all the way. And you get plenty of that in Rogue Factor’s Necromunda: Underhive Wars. 

☁️ Cloudpunk | Review | PS4 | "Never before have I been so sad whilst holding a controller" ☁️ @ionlands #IndieGames #GameDev

Developer: ION Lands

Platform Reviewed: PS4 

Rating:  5/10 (MELTING)

This is not the review I wanted to write. 

Upon booting up Cloudpunk, ION Lands’ voxel-tastic cyberpunk delivery simulator, despite some clear technical issues, I was HOOKED. 

Sadly, eight hours into the game, the issues won out and I was forced to give up entirely. I can genuinely say that this would have featured in my end of year selection but in its current state, it’s a hard one to recommend and instead currently stands as one of the most infuriating gaming moments of the year for me.

🕶️🎰 VR and How it is Impacting Online Slots 🎰🕶️

Over the years the online slot industry has proven itself to be incredibly adept at using new technology to make its games even more popular amongst the gamblers of the world, and it has got to the point where the online slot industry dwarfs any other part of the overall gambling market in 2020. There are far more people gambling online, for example, and the vast majority of those are doing so on the range of excellent modern online slots available today. 

Playing slots like Centurion by Inspired Gaming can make it seem as though the market has reached the end of its development, as these games really are just that good. But here’s the thing: the slots industry has never been one to sit still, and ever since Charles D. Fey’s day it has constantly sought to be as innovative as possible. The most exciting new development in the field has got to be VR in regard to online slots, a new piece of technology that could flip the entire industry on its head. But what is VR, and how is it impacting online slots at www.wizardslots.com? Read ahead to find out! 

🎮 Gioteck Controllers Review| WX-4 and JC-20 🎮 @GioteckArmy

Gioteck WX-4 Wired (2.5m cable) / Wireless & JC-20 

Gaming controllers are expensive (I look at YOU Nintendo Joy-Cons) and it’s always good to have a solid replacement available at a decent price. 

Gioteck’s WX-4 range caters for PC, PS3 and Switch whilst the JC-20’s are their version of the Nintendo Joy-Cons. 

Here, I’ll be taking a look at how they rate as replacements for the inevitable Joy-Con issues or simply an addition to your accessory collection for multiplayer action.

🚀 Jets N Guns 2 | Review | Nintendo Switch | "A Tooled-Up Shooter That Shines in Co-Op" 🚀 @rakeingrass #IndieGames #GameDev

Game Title: Jets N Guns 2

Platform Reviewed: Switch

Rating: 9/10 (ICE COOL)

Jets N Guns 2 Developer Rake In Grass has delivered unto us one of the finest side-scrolling shooters ever made.

*sigh* I suppose I’d better say more.

🕵️ Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders | Review | Nintendo Switch | "A moustache-twirling fun adventure" 🕵️ @Microids_off #IndieGames #GameDev

Game Title: Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders

Platform Reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Rating: 7/10 (Melting)

Originally released on PC in 2016 and now ported to Switch, the ABC Murders are based on the book of the same name and follows the plot relatively closely, with some elements removed for pacing purposes.

Set in England during 1935, the game sees the Belgian detective in his London home with a close associate, Hastings. Receiving a mysterious letter from someone identifying themselves as ‘A.B.C’, Poirot heads to Andover to find out more about these alphabetical atrocities.

🏝️💥 Game Title: Crysis Remastered | Review | PS4 | "A seminal title that still holds up" 💥🏝️ @Crysis #CrysisRemastered

Game Title: Crysis Remastered

Platform Reviewed: PS4

Rating: 7/10 (Melting)

Although I didn’t play much Crysis when it came out (due to a mix of always having under-powered PCs and a personal gaming void during 2007-2009) I’m acutely aware of the impact that it had and so I leapt at the chance to cover it, in remastered form.

⚔️ 9th Dawn 3: Shadow of Erthil | Review | Nintendo Switch | "An epic adventure in which you slaughter thousands and loot them ALL" ⚔️ @Valorware #GameDev #IndieGames

Game Title: 9th Dawn 3: Shadow of Erthil

Platform Reviewed: Switch

Rating: 7/10 (Melting)

Having never played any previous games in the series and admittedly a being little put off by the games mobile roots, it was a gameplay video on YouTube that really drew me into the grandly-titled 9th Dawn 3: Shadow of Erthil. 

It struck me as a saucy mix of Diablo and Gauntlet, which is a fair approximation of what you will spend dozens upon dozens of hours doing. 

You WILL hack, you WILL slash.

🐵 The Survivalists | PC | Ten minute Taster | Part II | "There Be Treasure Chests!!" 🐵 @SurvivalistsT17 #IndieGames #GameDev

 
In The Survivalists The island is alive! 

Your newfound home will change with day/night cycles as you explore and uncover its secrets. 

Hunt (or be hunted by!) animals for food and an array of mythical enemies, who aren’t necessarily pleased to see you. 

Get quests from a Mysterious Stranger or find them washed up on the shore. 

Prepare to trek into a procedurally generated wilderness, with a variety of biomes, for an adventure that’s unique to every player.

🗡️ DEADSIDE | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Running & getting Gunned" 🗡️ @DeadsideGame #GameDev #IndieGame #EarlyAccess

Deadside is a multiplayer shooter with a large open world and wide-open gameplay possibilities.

🥊 Creepy Brawlers | Review | Nintendo Switch | "Undead Punch Out" 🥊 @megacatstudios #IndieGames #GameDev

Creepy Brawlers is a retro-style boxing game that takes its inspirations from the Punch-Out series on the NES and then moulds that with a B Movie horror feel.

You walk into a cinema and then wake up in a ghoulish boxing tournament with no memory of how he got there.

You’ll then be tasked with boxing your way through a horror movie-themed set of deadly opponents.

🐒🏝️ "Secrets of Monkey Island" charity event this Friday! 🐒🏝️ #RetroGaming #SecretOfMonkeyIsland

The Secret of Monkey Island turns 30 this October, and The Video Game History Foundation is celebrating by diving deep into its creation with Ron Gilbert...and the game's original source code!

🐒🏝️ The Survivalists | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Time For Some Monkey Business" 🐒🏝️ @SurvivalistsT17 #IndieGames #GameDev

 

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. 

Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea - Episode 38: "Bashed At The Bridge!" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

 

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids.

🥶 We Were Here Together | Review | XBOX | *A Co-Op Puzzler that you should definitely bring in from the cold* 🥶 @WeWereHereGame #IndieGames #GameDev

Long-time readers of my articles will know that co-op gaming really lifts me into the sky on wings of sunshine and so, when I received a couple of review codes for We Were Here Together, a first-person puzzle adventure, I instantly roped my brother in for some co-operative gold.

Game Title: We Were Here Together

Platform Reviewed: Xbox One

Rating: ICE COOL 8

🧦 Paper Beast: Folded Edition | Review | "Enter Paper Beast, which strolled into my life and promptly sent my socks flying off" 🧦 @PixelHunted #GameDev #IndieGames

Perhaps I’ve been spoiled but it takes a lot for a game to impress me. 

Gigantic, opulent open-world map? Chuck it on the pile with the rest. 

A hundred-hour epic adventure? I’ve got a life dammit. 

Incredibly complex vehicular simulation? Ah, I’ll just play more Mario Kart.

Enter Paper Beast, which strolled into my life and promptly sent my socks flying off. 

🐒🏝️ The secret(s) of Monkey Island will be revealed on Oct. 30 when The Video Game Source Project deconstructs a beloved classic 🐒🏝️ #Retrogaming

The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF), a nonprofit that brings old video games back to life by preserving, celebrating, and teaching their history, has unveiled the Video Game Source Project, an effort to save and study source code and related development materials before the stories around these games' creation are lost forever.

🧁 Undead Darlings | A Dungeon Crawler With A Difference 🧁 @SekaiGames_ #GameDev #IndieGames

We just stumbled across this dungeon crawler announcement and it has piqued our interest...

Undead Darlings * no cure for love * Available Now on Switch & PS4

Sekai Games, with developer Mr.Tired Media, present the dungeon-crawler, turn-based, combat and visual novel hybrid Undead Darlings ~no cure for love~, which is now available on Nintendo Switch™ and PS4™!

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea | Coca Cola Cup Semi Final 2nd Leg | Episode 37: "Silenzi Silences The Critics" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids. 

🍷➕🎮 Vino + Video Games 🍷➕🎮 @TNTracklists

Alex has been a long-time friend of Games Freezer. 

A rising talent in the Welsh wine scene, he has taken some time out of his busy schedule of sippin’ and spittin’ (also the names of his pet hamsters) to answer some of the most pertinent questions asked by those of us that like to combine gaming and grenache. 

🗡️ Partisans 1941 | Ten Minute Taster | PC | "Stealth Kills & Knife Throwing" 🗡️ #IndieGames #GameDev

Partisans 1941 is a real-time tactics game with stealth elements, set on the eastern front of WW II. As an army commander behind enemy lines, you gather a group of Partisans to wage guerilla warfare against the German occupants.

⚽️📓 Championship Manager 2 - Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea - Episode 36: "Drama At The Bridge" ⚽️📓 #RetroGaming #ChampionshipManager #CreatorsUnite

Championship Manager 2 has been on my list of games to play on YouTube for years now and finally, I have pulled my finger out and taken the job of Nottingham Forest Manager.

Come see how my season unfolds in these short sharp Champ Manager vids.

🦙 Alpaca Ball Allstars | PC | Ten Minute Taster | The Finest Alpaca Based Soccer Game In History! 🦙 @Salt_Castle #GameDev #IndieGames

 

Football with Alpacas! Bring the cup home in this hilarious and chaotic physics-based party game.

Play with up to 8 players in versus mode, or tackle the career mode either solo or in 2 player co-op!

Peru-ve yourself on the Picchu and win those Machus!

⌚️ These Seiko 5 Sports Street Fighter V Limited Edition Watches Are Awesome! ⌚️ #StreetFighter #WatchCollector

Introduced in 1968 and re-born in 2019, Seiko 5 Sports has offered a wide variety of mechanical watches for watch lovers for over half a century. 

Now sees the release of six new Seiko 5 Sports creations that take inspiration from Street Fighter. 

First released in 1987, it is now the leading fighting game in the esports field, played and viewed by millions worldwide. 

🦕 Philomena Schwab Interview | The Wandering Village | Stray Fawn Studio 🦕 @StrayFawnStudio @PhilomenaSchwab #IndieGames #GameDev

The Wandering Village is a brand-new city-building simulation game from Stray Fawn Studios in which the players build a settlement on the back of a giant, wandering creature!

We took some time to catch up with Philomena Schwab from Stray Fawn Studios and chat all things video games.

🤖 Eagle Knight Paradox | Kickstarter | "Side-scrolling action mecha platformer with a unique slice of life twist." 🤖 #Kickstarter @playstormstudi1 #GameDev #IndieGames

Eagle knight Paradox is an action mecha platformer where you have to protect a city from total annihilation and it's a game that has caught our eye on Kickstarter...

🎮💿 Martyn Sadler Interview – GameCycle | "A Revolution In Second Hand Games Sales?" 🎮💿 #RetroGaming @GameCycleUK

Britt caught up with all-round top bloke Martin Sadler to chat about GameCycle and all things video games...

🎧 GIOTECK REVEAL NEXT-GEN HEADSETS AND HIGH-SPEED CABLE PACK FOR GAMERS THIS CHRISTMAS 🎧

Gioteck has announced two new, British designed and engineered next-gen additions to their extensive range of affordable gaming accessories. 

Coinciding with November's console launches, the brand brings gamers incredible, value-packed headsets and premium high-speed cables, at prices accessible to all...

🗳️ Democracy 4 | PC | Review | Improve The Welfare Of Your Nation! 🗳️ @cliffski #IndieGames #GameDev #Early Access

 

Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...

🏎️ Drift 21 Gameplay | PC | EARLY ACCESS | Ten Minute Taster | Check Out The Tasty Garage Workshop! 🏎️ #GameDev #IndieGames

 

Tune your dream drift car, change parts, boost performance and show your skills on Japan's legendary EBISU circuits in 505 Games' Drift 21!

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💺🎮 3 Genius Ways To Make Your Video Gaming Experience More Comfortable and Healthier 💺🎮

When you find an immersive and captivating video game, it can be all you can do not to spend every hour of the day playing it. 

Of course, the more time you put in, the better you will get! 

Unfortunately, it is also the case, the more time you spend sitting down, repetitively using your hands and eyes, the more discomfort you can feel. 

The good news is that there are some steps you can take to make your video gaming experience more comfortable and better for you too. Read on to find out what they are.

👻 Paul Dolby Interview | Sunshine Manor - Fossil Games 👻 @Fossil_Games #IndieGames #GameDev #KickStarter

Fossil Games has just launched its Sunshine Manor Kickstarter campaign for the Prequel to Camp Sunshine and we took some time to catch up with Paul Dolby from Fossil Games to learn a bit about him and the Sunshine manor video game...

🛡️ Bad North: Jotunn Edition | Review | XBOX | "Mega-Lo-Mania in 3D?" 🛡️ #GameDev #IndieGames

This is an odd game. It's billed as a "minimalistic real-time tactics roguelite about Vikings," which just seems to be missing IN SPACE or GONE WRONG. Being a gentleman of a certain age, it reminds me a bit of Mega-Lo-Mania in 3D.

🏹 Valentina | Nintendo Switch | Review | "A Micro-Budget Title From Brazil" 🏹 #GameDev #IndieGames

Currently 89p on the Switch eShop, Valentina is very much priced correctly in term of what it offers players. 

A Brazilian platformer, Valentina tells the story (through broken English) of our titular heroine as she bows-and--arrowses (definitely a term) her way through a 2D world to destroy the encroaching Dark Empire over 40 stages of action.

😈 Lust From Beyond: Scarlet | PC | Review | "Get Ready To Clutch Those Pearls" 😈 @MGLunarium #IndieGames #GameDev

Back in 2017 I wrote a preview for a game called Lust For Darkness (I never played the finished version) which I concluded was essentially “pretty… but tame” in how it supposedly was to show the extreme lines between pleasure, fantasy and pain.

It’s effectively the Hellraiser thang (most memorably illustrated in the first movie by a man sneering at a woman’s back during love-making) and the preview version of Lust for Darkness suffered from the same issue I had with the original Hellraiser movie, it felt somewhat muted.

When someone tells me ‘I want to show you the boundaries of human endurance between pleasure and pain’ my mind goes beyond the purchasing of a risqué bronze statuette with a coquettish grin on its face and its bum out.

Lust From Beyond: Scarlet is again a preview of a final game, a sort of self-contained tech demo that exists to show off the gameplay features that will be included in the full game. Scarlet is a separate story that acts as a preamble to the tale that will be told in that final product.

🕊️🦉🦜 Feather | Review | PS4 | "Do you want to fly away (yeah, yeah yeah)?" 🕊️🦉🦜 #IndieGames #GameDev

Feather is a casual game with no enemies, puzzles or challenge beyond enjoying flying around an island as a bird, Feather entertains for a short while but the complete lack of any goal and the relatively small size of the island you explore from above quickly catches up with you. 

⚽️ Ganbare! Super Strikers | PS4 | Review | Better Than Captain Tsubasa? ⚽️ @_rese @RatalaikaGames #IndieGames #GameDev

Ganbare! Super Strikers is a mix between an anime Tactical RPG and a Soccer game. 

You need to Win matches to level up your players and also to earn new equipment that will allow your players to learn up to 35 special abilities.

These abilities will boost your players' stats or protect them against altered status effects inflicted by opposition players

In story mode, you can create your own team to take on the rival teams in Japan in a 7v7 competition which takes place over 7 matches.

If you win the Japan competition you then get the opportunity to play in the World Cup in a 11v11 tournament.

You can also play a local multiplayer mode with up to 8 players with quick match, league, and tournament modes.

🎙️ Not For Broadcast | PC | Review | "Chuck Five Nights At Freddy’s and Papers Please Into The Telepods From The Fly" 🎙️ @PixelHunted @notgamesuk #GameDev #IndieGames

Chuck Five Nights At Freddy’s and Papers Please into the telepods from The Fly and something like Not for Broadcast would squirm out of the other end. 

You are a broadcast engineer, tasked with making sure the nightly news looks professional and well-edited.

🪓 The Long Dark | PC| Ten Minute Taster | "Totally Bleak and Totally Engrossing" 🪓 @IntoTheLongDark @HinterlandGames #GameDev #IndieGames

 

Bright lights flare across the night sky. The wind rages outside the thin walls of your wooden cabin. A wolf howls in the distance. 

You look at the meagre supplies in your pack and wish for the days before the power mysteriously went out. How much longer will you survive?

Welcome to THE LONG DARK, the innovative exploration-survival experience Wired magazine calls "the pinnacle of an entire genre"

The Long Dark is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. 

There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

👁️ Witcheye | Review | Nintendo Switch | A Nintendo eShop Hidden Gem! 👁️ @devolverdigital #GameDev #IndieGames

 

Witcheye is a colourful, old-school pixel art platform adventure with a unique control system. 

You set off on an adventure as a mild-mannered witch who transforms into a flying eyeball of vengeance after a smarmy knight and wizard steal her spell ingredients. 

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🕹️ GAME LINK:🕹️ 

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/witcheye-switch

💻🎮 4 Reasons Why Online Gaming Has Risen In Popularity 💻🎮

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The UK has an estimated 20 million people who regularly play video games, with the gaming industry experiencing growth throughout its mobile, console, and PC platforms.

Online gaming is one trend in the gaming market that has fast gained popularity globally.

According to a 2013 study, there are at least 700 million online gamers, which is equivalent to nearly 45% of all users online.

Research shows that traditional online gaming has evolved to include trendy additions like Esports, virtual, and augmented reality.

These additions are slowly gaining ground in the UK online game market, and experts predict their rapid rise. Here are four such reasons that account for the increase in online gaming.