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Canabalt, Deep Sea devs release Lunar Lander-inspired Capsule for PC

June 19, 2013 6:45 PM | John Polson

Adam Saltsman and Robin Arnott have made their previously Venus Patrol-exclusive, suffocating sim Capsule available for sale this week for Windows and Mac. According to Adam's blog post, Capsule takes about 2 hours to complete and is described as "technically a survival-horror game, featuring a posthumous epistolary narrative and a reactively generated abstract landscape that is different every time you explore, and tailored to deliberately create tense scenarios and close calls."

Jake Clover's GUNNER is a psychotic assault on rationality (Freeware)

June 19, 2013 4:39 PM | Paul Hack

GUNNER is the latest game released by the prolific, uncompromising, and chameleonesque Jake Clover (AKA Normalen Baren, AKA hasetrum). This game/art-piece is an assault on the senses, on taste, and on morality. You shoot police officers and blow up their cars in order to steal jewels (which really mean nothing in the end). The graphics are chunky, the animation is clunky, and the soundtrack is very LOUD. Did I mention that I love this game?

Spin the Bottle interview: team designing and marketing a TV-less console game

June 19, 2013 2:40 PM | John Polson

Redgrim (Dragon Pussy, MRS. DAD) and Knapnok (B.U.T.T.O.N.) are working together and marketing Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party, a party game coming this summer to the Wii U console that never uses the TV.

Here, the two discuss working remotely, creating trailers for games not played on a screen, the characters' "phallic-in-nature" design, and other challenges that come with marketing a "spin the bottle" game.

Plan and carry out a prison break in Escape from Bacon Bay (Freeware Pick)

June 19, 2013 12:30 PM | Paul Hack

baconbay1.png95 new games came out of the 5th Bacon Game Jam and some real gems are in the mix. One of my personal favorites is Escape from Bacon Bay, a prison escape strategy game by team drunkenpixel. It's time for lights out at Bacon Bay Prison ("lights out" was the theme of the jam) and you have until morning to do what they said couldn't be done: Break out!

Skulls of the Shogun outflanks Windows 8, beta available via Steam now

June 19, 2013 10:06 AM | Anthony Swinnich

There was a point where the PC version of Skulls of the Shogun was going to be exclusive to Windows 8. That no longer appears to be the case, as 17-bit has revealed the new Bone-A-Fied edition of the game will be available through Steam and the Humble store.

Enter the psychedelic nightmare of The Shoe's on the Other Foot (Freeware Pick)

June 18, 2013 6:46 PM | Paul Hack

otherfoot1.pngIf Macel Duchamp or Hugo Ball was around today and made an adventure game, it might be something like The Shoe's on the Other Foot by Kukenstra Games. This short, brain-melting experience goes beyond surreal and right into the realm of the absurd. The gameplay is pretty down-to-earth, but the character art and the story are fairly bonkers. It all starts with a conversation between a cat and an amnesiac (you) in an infinitely ascending elevator. And then it gets really weird.

Trailer: Blocks That Matter follow up, Tetrobot and Co., shows blocks still matter

June 18, 2013 4:40 PM | John Polson

Swing Swing Submarine's Tetrobot and Co. debuts its first gameplay trailer, showing the point-and-clicky nature of its puzzle solving. Developers promise players will have to learn physical and chemical properties of tons of elements to traverse stages, including electric arcs, lasers, fans, switches, holograms, doors, water, slime, and, of course, blocks of matter.

New Humble Bundle debuts Aquaria, Pulse, Stealth Bastard, Frozen Synapse on Android

June 18, 2013 2:50 PM | John Polson

Humble Bundle for Android 6 offers a total of 7 games to enjoy on Android devices (and 6 of those on Steam/cross-platform PC). Organ Trail and Broken Sword (Director's Cuts) join several games that are making their Android debut: action exploration swimmer Aquaria, puzzle platformer Stealth Bastard Deluxe, puzzler Fractal, asynchronous strategy title Frozen Synapse, and rhythm game Pulse. Pulse is the only game that is not on PC.

Survive Disasterpeace's, Jasper Byrne's bullet beats in Bean's Soundodger (Browser)

June 18, 2013 1:50 PM | John Polson

Basketbelle and ...But That Was [Yesterday] developer Bean has released his elegant bullet dancer Soundodger on Adult Swim today, with over 20 songs to weave through. You use the mouse to avoid the rhythm-based firepower, and you hold down the left-click to slow down the action. However, the latter comes at a cost to your score. Points (which convert to % complete) are only gained when a bullet leaves the arena at normal speed.

For puzzle, chess, and roguelike lovers: Aaron Steed's Ending [PC, Mobile]

June 18, 2013 12:20 PM | John Polson

ending arron steed.jpgAaron Steed knows turn-based puzzles and roguelikes, and it shows in his punishing, Mercury-inspired Ending. The Red Rogue and Turnament developer offers in Ending a whole lot of meticulous gaming for free (or for $1 on mobile), including a 60-stage puzzle mode, a roguelike adventure mode, and a puzzle level editor.

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