The ninth-generation has been one that has taken a while to gather momentum. For a while there, it seemed that owning a PS5 or an Xbox Series X/S was just a fun little luxury, but in reality, nothing more than a high powered Netflix machine. However, after about one year into this new generation, we …
Having hundreds of employees and hundreds of contractors is a surefire way to make an excellent game but what about when you have a tiny team and a very limited budget? Well, that’s the challenge Indie (independent) Game Developers face. Due to their limited budgets and fundamental need to acquire new customers, indie game developers …
As we way goodbye to 2021 and press onwards into the ninth generation of gaming, it is always nice to take a moment to be retrospective and reflect on the great gaming moments that last year gave to the gaming community as a whole. We were treated to some of the first games of the …
Digital card games have soared in popularity in recent years, with the most well-known ones (like Hearthstone) having hundreds of thousands of concurrent players. This should come as no surprise as card games are a ton of fun, and in the digital space, the possibilities are endless. With endless possibilities comes endless choice, and that’s …
The Rogue-like genre has hotly become one of the most popular genres of any. Games like Hades and Spelunky have taken the industry by storm, and the recent boom in high-quality indie development of the last decade has produced a ton of incredible titles beyond the big names. From the aesthetically basic yet surprisingly deep …
While there are a lot of indie subgenres that demand their moment in the spotlight, such as the breakout craze of Roguelites, or the wonderous world of walking sims, there are a few that have been a mainstay in the gaming zeitgeist since day one, and one of those is the RPG genre. An RPG …
Even back in the days when video games were nothing more than blocky pixels floating around on screen, usually attempting to hit or avoid other blocky pixels, action has always been front and center in game development. In Pac-Man, you had the intensity of avoiding the fast-moving ghosts; in Space Invaders, there was the impending …
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Every era of gaming has one or two genres that burst out of nowhere and take the gaming industry by storm, and most of the time, it’s the indie games or the era that lead the charge. In the 2000’s we were inundated with platformers with budding anthropomorphic mascots, then the early 2010s were dominated …
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Some of my fondest gaming memories are from a simpler time when nothing beat huddling around a screen playing video games with friends. As time went on, co-op games comfortably transitioned into something you could enjoy online instead, and then, all of a sudden, they just stopped. If you focus solely on the AAA gaming …
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House Flipper is one of the best brain-off games I have come across. Unlike other simulator games, House Flipper doesn’t prove to be nearly as tedious in some of its tasks and offers enough variety to keep even the most distractable of brains in check. For me, this proved to be amazing, and I quickly …
