📀 Zelda & Chill | Vinyl Review | Black Screen Records | "it’s all about the tunes baby, and it delivers (Ocarina of) time and time again" 📀 @blackscreenrec #VGM #Vinyl

My partner @kingdomofcarts first came across Mikel’s Zelda & Chill on Spotify a year or so ago, it popped up as a recommended listen and we were both instantly hooked.

The blend of familiar, timeless Zelda melodies with trip-hop beats is a real winner and an album we continually return to, several times a week.

🎶🎧💿 Creaks Soundtrack on Vinyl 🎶🎧💿 #Vinyl #VGM

As a fan of Amanita Design’s previous game Machinarium, I was looking forward to covering Creaks and my subsequent review (https://www.gamesfreezer.co.uk/2021/06/creaks-review-xbox-series-x-910.html) cemented them – for me - as a developer with a really unique perspective and masters of their craft, especially in terms of presentation, mood and atmosphere tied to richly-textured and yet accessible gameplay.

Before listening to the album, Lukas Kunce at Amanita Design sent me a link to a documentary put together by the man behind the Hidden Orchestra – Joe Acheson – that turned out to be not just an invaluable resource for understanding the creation of the music for the Creaks soundtrack but is also just plain awesome in terms of being a really relaxing and incredibly interesting documentary, full stop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67S-rAyku3U I urge you all to watch!

🦖 Super Sami Roll | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "A Delightful 3D Platformer That Brings A Smile To Your Face" 🦖 @SuperSamiRoll #IndieGames #GameDev

In Super Sami Roll, Sami’s on a mission to rescue his friend Vera and he needs your help! Join him in this exhilarating, colourful 3D platformer and fast roll, air-grapple, and jump to save her!

🎶💿🐿️ Mr Nutz - Wayo Records 🎶💿🐿️ @wayorecords #Vinyl #VGM

 

Mr Nutz - Wayo Records

https://www.wayorecords.com/en/vinyls/724-mr-nutz-original-soundtrack-vinyl-collector.html

Wayo Records’ previous release - a double 12-inch, gatefold presentation of the always-welcome Yuzo Koshiro’s 1990 Actraiser - has been followed up by something distinctly more cartoonish in nature, namely the well-received 1993 French 2D platformer, Mr Nutz. 

🎮 How To Take Your Online Gaming Experience To A Whole New Level 🎮

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Online gaming can be such a fun and exciting experience. There are so many different games to play, adventures to take and skills to learn, and it's so easy to get lost in a session of online gaming for hours on end.

However, simply sitting down at the same old computer to play online games in the most basic fashion possible is holding you back dramatically from being able to appreciate the full potential of each game.

You need to put time and effort into creating the best environment and atmosphere in which you can use top-quality equipment to get the most out of your online gaming session, otherwise, you're only getting half of the adventure! Thankfully, it doesn't have to be as difficult as you might expect to take your online gaming experience to a whole new level, as there are in fact just a few key tips and tricks that you can make the most of to turn your entertainment dreams into a reality in no time at all.

So, if you're interested in finding out more, then simply read on to uncover some of the handiest hacks that you can utilize today! 

📹 Night Book | Xbox Series X | Review | 7/10 | "Kannar Help But Love a Bit of FMV Gaming" 📹 @WalesInter #IndieGames #GameDev

The most recent title from Wales Interactive is Night Book, a game in which you play as a pregnant, online interpreter as she gets involved in the dealings around a sinister book written in the supposedly cursed language of Kannar.

⚔️🛡️ Guild of Darksteel | Nintendo Switch | Review | 5.5/10 | "Immortality Ain’t What it’s Cracked Up To Be" ⚔️🛡️ @DigeratiDM #GameDev #IndieGames

Guild of Darksteel has a promising and high concept setup. As a mercenary ‘cursed’ by immortality, you wearily make your way to the titular Guild of Darksteel in order to join a shady clan of immortals who use their eternal life to solve problems for others in exchange for coin, usually by stabbing things with their swords.

💹 The Invisible Hand | PC | Gameplay | Ten minute Taster | "How To Buy, Sell & Short" 💹 @PowerStruggleG #GameDev #IndieGames

The Invisible Hand - Want to get rich, quick? Welcome to FERIOS, where you’ll be empowered to pursue wealth and success as a mid-level stockbroker!

Your wildest dreams of wealth can come true… at the cost of everything else.

🧠🔖A Tale Of Synapse: The Chaos Theories | Nintendo Switch | Review | 7/10 | "Nero & Sci Best Friends Forever" 🧠🔖 @ATaleOfSynapse #IndieGames #GameDev

A Tale Of Synapse: The Chaos Theories is an abstract styled and fun puzzle platformer littered with maths-based puzzles and a distinct gameplay mechanic which can see a second player playing the role of your on-screen ally as you work through the puzzles together.

🏍️ Urban Trial Tricky Deluxe Edition | PC | Gameplay | "Press Q To Spin!" 🏍️ @UrbanTrial #GameDev #IndieGames

Grab your seat and pull off the most savage tricks and combos on your motorbike. Ride freely, spin around in the air, go back and forth and let yourself be carried away by the fun, fast-paced gameplay, colourful visuals, and smooth controls.

🈷️🥋 Within The Blade | Nintendo Switch | Gameplay | Ten Minute Taster | "Ninjas Are Cool!" 🥋🈴 #GameDev #IndieGames

Within the blade is a game in the genre of stealth and platforming with elements of RPG, in which the player plays as the Shinobi (Ninja). The player can gain experience when killing enemies and eventually be able to unlock more advanced ninjutsu.

Going through the levels the player will collect the various ingredients in which he can craft weapons: shurikens, poisons, elixirs, grenades, mines, as well as the main weapon the Ninjato and Kusarigama. 

At the end of each level the player gains experience for the past level completed, the game utilizes a stealth mechanic in which hide and seek can be your best weapon of defence and offence. Being able to hide in the shadows and deliver crucial and critical blows to an enemy can also give you experience in the end.

After each level, the player will be returned back to their home village in which they are able to purchase weapons, items and more advanced ninjutsu in the game.

🪓🩸🏥 A Way To Be Dead | PC | Review | Early Access | "Find 4 Friends Before You Buy This!" 🪓🩸🏥 @CraniaGames #GameDev #IndieGames

Turkish game devs Crania games bring us a grim-looking asymmetrical multiplayer game that is currently available in Early Access and runs in good ol’ Unreal Engine 4. 

A Way To Be Dead is actually set in the universe of the team’s previous 2017 game, Roots of Insanity https://store.steampowered.com/app/598440/Roots_of_Insanity/ which garnered some good Steam reviews and was also set in a chilling, skin-crawling hospital.

🧲 Super Magbot | Nintendo Switch | Ten Minute Taster | Gameplay | "Magnet Troubles" 🧲 @SuperMagbotGame #GameDev #IndieGames

 

Super Magbot is a precise 2D platformer with a twist. 

NO JUMPING

Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. 

Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.

🕺 Disco Elysium | PS5 | Review | 9.5/10 | "Bringing Disco back" 🕺 @studioZAUM #GameDev #IndieGames

The Disco Elysium opening tells you a lot about the game. First is a weird exchange between your limbic system and the void, and after that’s all done you awake in a trashed hotel in only your underwear, whilst hearing voices and with total amnesia. You proceed to find your clothes - which includes a talking tie - and it’s off to the races. It's interesting, it's surreal and it encapsulates the rest of the game.

👁️ Intrepid Izzy | Dreamcast | Review | 9/10 | "I’m off to punch a giant sea creature in the eye." 👁️ @SenileTeam #GameDev #IndieGames

I do love covering new releases on classic systems. When I received the accompanying press kit for Intrepid Izzy from Wave Game Studios, there was a statement in which the game was described as a blend of Sonic the Hedgehog, Castlevania and Streets of Rage.

I wasn’t sceptical so much as squinting into the distance, trying to visualise what that mash up would look like.

It looks like Intrepid Izzy, as it turns out.

🕹️📺 Best Alternative Nintendo Switch Dock For Under £15 | INTPW SB-C DIGITAL AV MULTIPORT ADAPTER 🕹️📺 #NintendoSwitch

Watch me as I test out the INTPW SB-C DIGITAL AV MULTIPORT ADAPTER on my Nintendo Switch. I am now using it as my dock alternative for my Nintendo Switch and it works a treat.

SWITCH DOCK LINK: https://amzn.to/3kL7hot (amazon affiliate link)

🧹🧙‍♀️ Cotton Reboot! | Nintendo Switch | Review | 8/10 | "Sweet Loving Witches Dodge Bullets For Fun In This Broom Em Up!" 🧹🧙‍♀️ @ININ_Games #GameDev #IndieGames

Surrounded by a blaze of bullets and headless zombies marching along the bottom of the screen Cotton Reboot could be mistaken for a fever dream quite easily as it throws everything at you in a colourful explosion of mayhem and madness interspersed with some non-sensical cut scenes about willow candy...

🦅 The Falconeer | PC | Gameplay | "Lets Go Fly A Kite!" 🦅 @WiredP #IndieGames #GameDev

In The Falconeer you will soar through the skies aboard a majestic warbird, explore a stunning oceanic world and engage in epic aerial dogfights, in this BAFTA-nominated air combat game from the solo developer, Tomas Sala.

🕹️ How Do You Celebrate Your Enthusiasm For A Franchise? 🕹️

 

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How do you show your loyalty to a brand? For clothes, we tend to buy special edition items, such as sneakers that are around for a limited time only. For things like music, we tend to support our favorite artists by buying their 1st edition album. For books it's the same, we go to the opening of a book sale, and we get a signed copy.

So what do you do for gaming?

Well, you can buy special edition figures, t-shirts and other forms of memorabilia. However, you have to separate the cheap stuff from the quality so you can be proud of having it in your home.

🥋 Within The Blade | Nintendo Switch | Review | 8/10 | "Ninjas are cool" 🥋 @pixelshinobi #IndieGames #GameDev

Within The Blade looked me in the eyes and said 'play me immediately'. A game that just screams '80s Ninjas and plays like a well oiled Bruce Lee is always going to evoke the memories of playing The Last Ninja and watching Enter The dragon for the 48th time after recording it on ITV at 11.30 on a Friday night.