We sit down to highlight Mateusz Skutnik, prolific developer behind the smash hit Submachine series and many, many more. From the whimsical 10 Gnomes series that sees you hunting down little creatures through the elegant city streets, to the espionage of Covert Front, Mateusz's style is always unique and celebrated.
We're looking to make the best escape game we can, and we need your help to do it! Help us with your input to brainstorm the Stormageddon: Dark Lord of All escape games, from the theme and story to the puzzles that make it up, or let us know the things you'd love to see... or the things you'd hate to!
Games Featured:
- • The Narrow Path
- • Diggy
- • The Spandex Parable
- • Legendary Escape
With everything from escape games, to gem-filled minion mining, to creepy crawly zombie crafting as a real-time strategy game, this week's Link Dump Friday has something for everyone!
Though still in early development, the announcement for the sequel to one of the best tower defense games ever should be cause for excitement! Blending RPG with strategic defense battles and great writing, Defender's Quest II promises a wealth of player-requested improvement on top of everything you loved before.
Coming next year, this classic-styled turn-based sci-fi RPG from talented team Zeboyd Games knows you need more than nostalgia to make a great game. Alyssa is a galactic super-spy, but when she stumbles on a conspiracy that makes her name and face known to the universe, suddenly everyone is gunning for her!
Coming next year, the first paid download installment of Sarah Northway's deep and addictive zombie survival simulation is going to be even bigger and badder than before. With all new stories, endings, events, factions, skills, visuals, and much, much more, Gangs of Deadsville promises to devour your free time in a big, big way.
Coming soon, Redshirt is a sci-fi Star Trek-esque simulation of life aboard a starship... that takes place entirely through social media! Can you juggle work and an increasingly complex personal life as you advance through the ranks and build networks of friends... and maybe even uncover a conspiracy in the process?
Imscared, one of the freakiest and most unique freeware horror games around, heads for Oculus Rift with this IndieGoGo campaign. Don't have OR? Don't worry, because creator Ivan Zanotti also promises to make the new version, with new levels and content, playable without!
Coming next year to PC and consoles if this Kickstarter has anything to say about it, Shantae: Half-Genie Hero stars Shantae, who, after having a nightmarish vision of an ancient evil about to rise, embarks on a platforming action adventure to stop it using her unique abilities. With over 23 years of experience and 200 titles under their belt, can WayForward bring the star of the hit iOS adventure to a new generation?
Coming later this year from Hailstorm Games, Claire is a survival horror adventure that follows a young girl throughout her life. Plagued by horrors and shadows, she finds herself trapped with her faithful canine companion in a twisted reality, hunted by monsters... and haunted by people only she can "redeem"...
Coming later this year for PC and iOS, the episodic indie adventure game Long Story wants to take you back to high school in a way that feels familiar and realistic. As a young girl who returns home from a year away in France, you discover your locker's previous owner disappeared mysteriously... but with studies, friends, romance, bullying, and perhaps even figuring out your own sexual identity, you may have your hands full.
Up for funding on IndieGoGo, Luc Bernard's action adventure game about a young boy named Samuel and a talking fox plans to take players on a journey few games ever dare to... to explore the human stories of the atrocity that is the Holocaust. Daring? Educational? Or misguided? Opinions are bound to be mixed.
Games Featured:
- • Crypt of the NecroDancer
Coming later this year for PC and Mac, this addictive roguelike has a musical twist. Play with a DDR pad or your keyboard as you play a young woman descending into a crypt full of monsters and magic, using the beat of the soundtrack to move and rack up multipliers. Even with your own MP3s! Add in a gorgeous pixel style and all the features roguelike fans have come to expect, and you have a unique, catchy game we can't wait to see more from.
Planned for PC and Mac in 2014, if you're a fan of FTL: Faster Than Light, Don't Starve, and most importantly, Fallen London, this Kickstarter should get you excited! Failbetter Games wants to deliver a darkly humourous roguelike RPG adventure as you staff and captain a steamship to set sail for a legacy on a massive underground ocean filled with madness, adventure, terror, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate
- • Color Zen
- • Snoopy Coaster
Nobody wants to wait for games. We want them playable, we want them entertaining, we want them perfect, and we want them now. That's why we decided to collect games on this edition of Mobile Monday that are either currently available to play or juuuust about to be. Because waiting is for chumps!
Games Featured:
- • Undertale
- • Massive Chalice
- • Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel
- • Kingdom Rush Frontiers
There's a lot of old-school in this week's Link Dump, from a very retro and very delicious demo for an upcoming RPG you're going to want to play, like, NOW, to an adventure game that takes us all the way back to the black and white era of 'toons, but that's not the only thing we're RUSHing to in our KINGDOM...
Games Featured:
- • Phoenix Wright Trilogy HD
- • The Executive
- • Angry Birds Space
Hard to say no to the games featured on this edition of Mobile Monday. Free Angry Birds? Yes, please. A game about a CEO kicking through walls to engage in fisticuffs with werewolves? Ok! Phoenix Wright on iOS in HD? !!!!!!!
Games Featured:
- • The Yawhg
- • Dungeon of Elements
- • Don't Starve
- • DreadOut
- • Submachine 6
- • Crypt of the Necrodancer
- • The Kingsport Cases
- •
Mario and Tetris team up to take on dungeons, you've got a trip to Indonesia coming up, there's something horrifying and wondrous right beneath your feet... and the Yawhg is coming...
Games Featured:
- • Last Train to Timbuktu
- • NonoCube
- • Sparkle 2
- • Pudding Monsters
Such a friendly edition of Mobile Monday, this is. Everybody's our friend, especially those who deliver good games to us. We also seem to have a penchant for puzzle games, which are basically brain BFFs.
Games Featured:
- • Dormant Sky
- • Among the Sleep
- • Pandora: Purge of Pride
- • Town of Salem
- • Alone in the Park
- • Damned
- • Road Not Taken
- • Rom Check Fail
- • Contraption Maker
Play with a human head! Experience terror as a toddler! Accuse your friends of being murderers before they do the same to you! This week's Link Dump has a little something for everyone... especially if you're just a little bit weird.
Games Featured:
- • Hiversaires
- • OmniDig
- • Asphalt 7: Heat
Did somebody leave the front door open? Because there's a draft in here. Seriously, stand by the wall there. You feel it, don't you? Maybe just lean down a bit. More. Moooore. HA! Tricked you into reading mobile game news!
Games Featured:
- • Gun Monkeys
- • Cook, Serve, Delicious!
- • Rawbots
- • Darkwood
- • Plants vs Zombies 2
- • Candy Box!
- • Welcome to Boon Hill
- • Monaco
- • Ray's the Dead
- • City Quest
A fun and frantic indie restaurant sim gets a tasty free update. The bizarre and delightful webtoy that took the internet by storm gets a walkthrough. A zombie who's been struck by lightning wants your money for world domination. All this and more on Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Tennis in the Face
- • Denzel
- • Triple Town
- • Liege
The Noid hates high quality pizza mobile games. He loves to make your hot pizza ice cold. Read Mobile Monday if you want to avoid the Noid. And you really do want to avoid him.
Games Featured:
- • Game Dev Tycoon
- • Super Mario Bros. Crossover
- • Candy Box
- • Delirium
- • Dog Sled Saga
- • Black Closet
- • Son of Nor
- • SiSSYFiGHT 2000
- •
Beware! An addictive tasty treat lies within this week's Link Dump Friday the likes of which you may never escape from! And with an upcoming update to one of the most beloved platformers on the site, as well as some literary gaming, there's more than enough to take up whatever free time sneaks away!
Games Featured:
- • Dungeon Plunder
- • Factory Balls
- • Luftrausers
- • Bee Leader
More clones! And not the good kind, either. The kind that science gives us to be members of our band
Games Featured:
- • Mush
- • Dementium 2
- • TowerFall
- • Realm
- • Risk of Rain
- • A.N.N.E
- • Don't Starve
- • Thomas Was Alone
- • Virtual Families 2: Our Dream House
This week's Link Dump Friday is super friendly! Make friends with a golem, fill your buddies full of arrows, and secretly conspire to pick your pals off one by one as a slavering space beast.
Games Featured:
- • King Cashing 2
- • Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame
- • Joe Danger Touch
- • EDGE
Feeling a bit edgy today? Does reading Mobile Monday put you on the edge of your seat? Fancy a slice of pie made with the edge of a knife? Noticing a theme yet? Is it pushing you to the edge of your sanity? Or is this constant stream of edgy questions responsible for that?
Games Featured:
- • Starbound
- • A Small Favor
- • SCP - Containment Breach
- • Among the Sleep
- • The Last Inua
Cute and not-so-cuddly woodland creatures possibly in great peril? Check. A toddler's overactive imagination late at night while his parents are asleep? Check. Endless replayability and exploration in the stars? Check, and then some!
Games Featured:
- • Ghostly
- • Block Fortress
- • Gemini Rue
- • NES-Retku
Ghosts return in this edition of Mobile Monday! Real ghosts (well, virtual representations of real ghosts) plus ghost-like games we all thought were gone but have come back to haunt us. The good kind of haunting!
Games Featured:
- • Final Days
- • Spellirium
- • Something Fragile
- • Terraria
- • Sully: A Very Serious RPG
- • That Dragon, Cancer
Words are great, and in this week's Link Dump Friday they're also magical! But if words aren't your thing (YOU MONSTER!) we also have steampunk clashing with magic, Terraria's long-awaited return to PC content, a not-so-serious RPG, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Fist of Awesome
- • Nimble Quest
- • The Room 2
- • Epic Pirates Story
Really, all you need to know about this edition of Mobile Monday is that is contains both bears and beards. There might be some other stuff to look at, but it's totally overshadowed by the sheer awesomeness of those two nearly identical nouns.
Games Featured:
- • Torchlight 2
- • Mew-Genics!
- • The Haunting of Magnolia Manor
- • Catequesis
- • Ib
- • Analogue: A Hate Story
- • Hate Plus: ~Mute's Golden Days~
- • Anodyne
- • DreadOut
- • Ghost of a Tale
- • Outlast
- •
There might be monsters and ghosts you won't be able to fight in this week's Link Dump Friday, but there are also heroic mice, mutated kittens, complex emotional AI, and a whole lot of action-packed adventuring to round it out.
Last weekend, our roving reporter, Steve, went to PAX East 2013 in Boston. He returned with over 50 interviews from the developers in The Indie Megabooth, as well as a chat with Extra Credits writer James Portnow.
Games Featured:
- • Deck War
- • Wayward
- • iCycle
- • Sorcery
No tricks in this Mobile Monday. Not a one. Just because it's that April 1st holiday thing doesn't mean we have to participate, right? We're still recovering from the massive influx of news from the two recent game-centric events. We've read all the news and carefully selected the most awesome bits to share with you. Because you're awesome. No tricks!
Games Featured:
- • Broken Age
- • Papo &
- • Yo
- • Knights of Pen and Paper +1
- • The King's League: Legend of Grimrock
- • Odyssey
- • BLEAK
- • Planet Explorers
- • Power Jam: Roller Derby
- • Ib
It's another super-sized edition of Link Dump Friday! Freeware horror hit Ib gets a massive new update with new content, a gripping console hit about family relationships comes to your PC, Double Fine's captivating new adventure that shattered Kickstarter records is revealed, and much more.
Games Featured:
- • NonoCraft
- • Tilt To Live 2
- • Pixel People
- • Unmechanical
So many new games! It's like, why can't the future be here now? Or, why can't the games I'm bored with be not here while the exciting games I don't have be here? And why can't a normal day at the office be more like a video game?!
Games Featured:
- • Witch/Knight
- • Bloom: Memories
- • Barista Blast
- • Soundodger
- • Ithaka of the Clouds
- • XING: The Land Beyond
- • Sweatshop
- • Transistor
- • Bastion
- • Ninmu Nanmu
- • Fez
- • The Castle Doctrine
It's a super-sized Link Dump Friday because the news is out of control! We lead off this week with a hugely popular former XBLA exclusive heading for a PC release and the next game from Bastion's developers, but there's plenty of other things to get excited about too! NaNoRenO brings new visual novels, Jonas Kyratzes' latest Lands of Dream has what it needs to succeed, and more!
Games Featured:
- • 10000000
- • Hiversaires
- • Number Lux
- • Little Things Forever
Geeky times call for geeky games, and this edition of Mobile Monday shows no shortage of said stylings. We've got a gorgeous point and click puzzle game, a math-driven roguelike, and a so-very-retro puzzle hybrid crossing from iOS to Android. We'd love to quote Maximus from that old gem of a film Gladiator about being entertained, but that'd be a bit expected, wouldn't it?
Games Featured:
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Minecraft
- • Resonance
- • Chrono Trigger
- • Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
- • Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- • Wadjet Eye Games bundle
Horror, merit badges, and... rapping over one of the most beloved JRPGs of all time? Hmmm. Anywhere else, that wouldn't make any sense. But here, throw in a sale of a pack of celebrated indie point-and-click adventures, some crafting, and it's just another Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Third Eye Crime
- • Angry Birds HD
- • Virtual Families 2
Time to get some thieving in! And we're not just talking about games that feature thieving. It's also games being given away for free, which is sort of thievery. Not really, but it sounds a little more exciting when you think about it that way.
Games Featured:
- • Torment: Tides of Numenera
- • Avadon 2: The Corruption
- • A Bird Story
- • To The Moon
- • The Walking Dead
- • The Adventures of Dash
Normally if you snooze, you lose, but at least one of the games in this week's Link Dump Friday features a hero who sleeps his way to and through adventure! Tack on some zombies, a sequel to a celebrated indie RPG, the next chapter in a story about dreams and memories, and a little spiritual succession to one of the greatest RPGs of all time, and you have a recipe for success!
Games Featured:
- • Gravity Duck
- • Puzzle Retreat
- • Pangolin HD
Mobile games, assemble! Form of... other kind of mobile game! From HD updates to cross-platform shifts, there's no end to the migration mobile games can make. But, really, whatever. As long as we get the goods!
Games Featured:
- • The Banner Saga: Factions
- • Don't Starve!
- • Leap Day
- • Huntsman: The Orphanage
- • Back to Bed
- • Mew-Genics!
- • XING: The Land Beyond
- • Back to Bed
A houseful of genetically enhanced kittens. A dimensional-warping, child-stealing monstrosity. A tribe of Vikings to be lead to victory. And Wilson, who's still stuck thanks to that darn demon, and now we know why. Packed with the weird and wonderful, it's another Link Dump Friday!
Games Featured:
- • Plants vs. Zombies
- • MANOS - The Hands of Fate
- • Dragon Portals
- • The Sandbox
Chewed -up gum and knobby knees are the dominant mental images one may experience while reading this edition of Mobile Monday. That, and the incessant repetition of Torgo's four second theme song running over and over again, never stopping, just looping. Forever.
Games Featured:
- • 99 Spirits
- • Ithaka of the Clouds
- • There Came an Echo
- • Blackwell Epiphany
- • Hotline Miami
- • Depression Quest
One heck of a messed up family, voice command in SPAAAAAAAAAACE, masks and mayhem on your TV, and much more on this week's Link Dump Friday... including the beginning of a brand new chapter in the celebrated adventure series from Jonas Kyratzes.
Games Featured:
- • Year Walk
- • Sword and Poker
- • Forever Lost
Here's a trend we wouldn't mind seeing proliferate: games releasing alongside reference guides. Sure, you see the word "reference" and automatically think "boring" and sure, it's not a good idea for every game to do this, but in the case of Year Walk, a game based on Swedish folklore, a companion release that features more detailed mythological information is an amazing idea. Now we're almost more exciting about the companion than the game itself!
Games Featured:
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Fighting is Magic
- • Slender
- • Dreamfall Chapters
- • Kingdom of Loathing
- • The Longest Journey
- • Delver's Drop
- • Death Inc.
There's good news, bad news, and one seriously impressive milestone in this week's Link Dump Friday. How can you go wrong with implacable horror, brawling ponies, sarcastic questing, and three sincerely awesome Kickstarter campaigns?
Games Featured:
- • Beastie Bay
- • VVVVVV
- • Inbetween Land
Tantalizing secrets are before you! What do you do? A: Take the secrets. B: Tantalize the secrets back. C: See if the secrets secrete anything. D: Some of the above. Make your choice by closing your eyes and imagining with all your might!
Games Featured:
- • Huntsman: The Orphanage
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
- • Golem
- • Kingdom Rush
- • Quadrilateral Cowboy
February is here, when a young gamer's fancy turns to thoughts of... still more games. What, you thought it was gonna be somethin' about smoochin'? Gross! Why swap spit when you can get ready to play more Kingdom Rush, turn on all the lights in preparation for Slenderman, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Magicka: Wizards of the Square
- • Lumino City
- • Little Inferno
You know you're in for a good week when a Magicka is announced for a mobile system! Maybe the new game will shed some more light on that whole Vlad-vampire mystery? Like, seriously, who would ever think he's a vampire? Ever?
Games Featured:
- • Dwarf Fortress
- • Hatoful Boyfriend
- • Leap Day
- • The Fabulous Screech
- • Botanicula
- • Ritual Dementia
- • Asylum
There're horrifying things in this week's Link Dump Friday! But if that's not your thing, there's also more surreal pigeon romance for everybirdie, dwarven legacies, addictive co-op building, and much, much more... to say nothing of the results of the voting for our Best of 2012!
Games Featured:
- • Kairo
- • Pixel Defenders
- • Stingout
- • Dungelot
Do you ever stare at your iPhone or Android phone and just ask it what the heck it thinks it's doing? Sitting there, sucking power out of the battery, awaiting your commands like some sort of obedient machine. And then, when you're playing a game and suddenly fail, why it made you do that? Because you totally had the skills to pull that jump off, it was your phone's fault you missed it. Your phone's fault...
Games Featured:
- • Ib
- • Homesick
- • Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake
- • Among the Sleep
- • Treasure Adventure Game
I don't know about you, but I like to kick off my weekends with creepy cosplay, Metroidvania adventure, and science. Luckily, this week's Link Dump Friday has all three! From a commercial re-imagining and overhaul of the 2011 indie game of the year to a musical celebration of deadly technology, this week has something for everyone.
Games Featured:
- • Orbox B
- • Orbox C
- • Super Hexagon
- • Punch Quest
Who doesn't like a good animal hybrid? Especially that of the impossible type! One day in the distant past, mankind looked at centaurs with a sort of mystified awe. And today we gaze upon the Goaticorn and wonder "Can I get one of those IRL pls?"
Games Featured:
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Spire
- • Dustforce
- • 10,000,000
- • Eternal Eden: Ecclesia: *un*Lucky7
This week on Link Dump Friday, we set sail for IndieGoGo where we discover two very intriguing projects... one a sequel to a 2008 indie RPG, and another a fur-filled horror puzzle adventure set in deep space. As a bonus, an absurdly addictive iOS hit comes to your PC, the Dustforce devs cook up something new, and Slender Man is right behind you.
Games Featured:
- • Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden
- • Dungelot
- • Dragon Flight
Quick! Think of your favorite mobile game! Now think about it ported to another system! Now pretend the impossible happened and something like Portal was ported to a graphing calculator. How funny would that— oh it totally happened, didn't it? Good for you, science!
Games Featured:
- • Astronaut Spacewalk
- • King Oddball
- • Dr. Stanley's House
It's backwards day on Mobile Monday! Instead of telling you about portable gaming's goings on, we're going to analyze historical examples of decidedly non-portable games. Did you know that Stonehenge is actually a massive in-progress game of tic-tac-toe? Or that the pyramids are the only remaining pieces of a game of chess? Your move, gargantuan space aliens.
Games Featured:
- • Hotline Miami
- • Dreadline
- • Fez
- • Dungelot
Coming up in 2013. A game with a hat the Doctor would approve of, and monstrous time-traveling mayhem... that the Doctor probably would NOT approve of, but he's not here right now, is he? Also: Hotline Miami gets evidence as to why it could never have been a text adventure, and an effortlessly addictive free casual roguelike gets an update.
Games Featured:
- • Touch Detective
- • Sprinkle 2
- • Mew-Genics
Well, so much for 2012. Did you join the gym like you promised yourself you'd do? Finish that novel you were working on? Paint the house? Be nicer to strangers? Stop watching Jersey Shore reruns? If so, you're going to have to get creative for your new-new year's resolutions. Modest suggestion: play more good games?
Games Featured:
- • Knytt Underground
- • Radio the Universe
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Memento: Aurora Chronicles
Giveaways? You bet! Aim for a chance at one of ten free copies of the latest indie adventure from beloved developer Nifflas... provided the latest trailer for Slender: The Arrival doesn't have you hiding under your desk.
Games Featured:
- • Cook, Serve, Delicious!
- • About Love, Hate and the other ones
- • You Don't Know Jack
Hey! You did it! You survived the fabled Mayan-predicted apocalypse! How was it? Pretty ordinary, eh? Yeah, us too. Oh well. As long as we're still here, might as well keep playing games until the next apocalypse skates by.
Games Featured:
- • Knytt Underground
- • Penny-Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Three
- • Soul Gambler
- • Full Bore
Sell your soul, take a pig on an adventure, get lost with Knytt, or just make a pixel portrait in this week's Link Dump Friday! With some free DLC and some intriguing new Kickstarter projects, we've got you covered... unless the world has already ended and we don't exist anymore. In which case, you get NOTHING.
Games Featured:
- • Horn
- • Little Things Forever
- • Spell Sword
- • The Room
It's always fun when developers play nice with different mobile platforms, isn't it? This week, we've got several well-known games crossing over from one app store to another, spreading joy and cheer and other such happy words to all!
Games Featured:
- • Submachine 7
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • GameTron 1000
- • Meriwether: An American Epic
- •
Who needs the end of the world when you can stave off the apocalypse with more news and games on Link Dump Friday? This week; a crash course in basic game law, an HD version of one of the most popular point-and-click adventure games, Slenderman strikes a pose in a series of screenshots for the new upcoming commercial game, and more.
Games Featured:
- • Final Fantasy 4
- • Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition
- • Virtual Families 2
A pocket-sized family, one of the world's most ambitious RPGs stuffed into a smaller package, and a remade Final Fantasy game worming its way into the mobile market. It's all kind of amazing until you realize we're living in the super-futuristic year of 2012!
Games Featured:
- • Huntsman: The Orphanage
- • Welcome to Ponyville
- • The Last Door
- • The Cookening
This week's Link Dump Friday is so full of things they're busting out all over the place! From spooky orphanages to a marshmallow swamp, from creeping horror in England to making friends in Ponyville, and one sweet deal for any fan of indie games to boot. Awwwww yeah.
Games Featured:
- • Famaze
- • The Pyraplex
- • Bunny Cannon
So much cute! Bunnies and adorable adventurers! Pyramids that somehow look cute even though they're made of sun-baked sandstone! And news of a new Kairosoft release! Could life get any better? Oh, my chocolate pizza delivery has arrived!
Games Featured:
- • The Binding of Isaac
- • Sportsfriends
- • QWOP
- • Aquaria
- • Hotline Miami
The season is getting colder, stores are packed full of twinkling lights and mistletoe, and a young gamer's mind turns to thoughts of... mass murder and infanticide. Of course. But don't worry! Even if you're not into the icky-sticky, this week's Link Dump Friday delivers genre bending (and blending!), games with friends, and much more... including one gamer's heartfelt personal experiences with life and death that may make you cry.
Games Featured:
- • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- • Hotel Vegas
- • Chaos Rings Omega
This week's edition of Mobile Monday is like a soap opera! What we mean is Mobile Monday's long lost identical twin recently came to town and tried to seduce Mobile Monday's husband. What happened? You'll have to wait for the next episode! Gasp and shock and awe!
Games Featured:
- • Eschalon Book III
- • The Message
- • Legend of Dungeon
A message from somewhere out of this world, a dungeon you can blast and smash your way through with up to three more buddies, the epic conclusion to a massive open-world RPG indie trilogy... hope you're not too burnt out from Thanksgiving/Black Friday/saving children from burning orphanages for this week's Link Dump!
Games Featured:
- • Game of Thrones
- • Kung Fu FIGHT
Hey there. How would you like a mobile game based on Game of Thrones? Well, you might just get it! Or you might not, it all depends on how far off the rumor mill is turning. As long as there's a mini-game centered around dropping dung on Joffrey, we'll consider it a success.
Games Featured:
- • Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode Three
- • Maia
- • Retro Game Crunch
- • Primordia
- • Papa's Hot Doggeria
- • Barkley, Shut Up And Jam 2
Skulls in jars, world-shattering basketball, sullen robotic heroes... yep, it must be Friday! There are tasty things afoot this week, from hotdogs to hostile alien environments. What more could you possibly want? I mean, aside from robot hounds with bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at intruders. Otherwise, we've got you covered.
Games Featured:
- • Waking Mars
- • Woodhead
- • illo
Beginning your weekly journey to continued financial/scholastic success, might we suggest you take a peek at what games are currently brewing for your future enjoyment? Or perhaps have already been brewed for your present enjoyment? They've got nothing to do with actual brewing, just space and wooden blocks and stuff, which is better.
Games Featured:
- • Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure
- • Sir, You Are Being Hunted
- • Another World
- • Analogue: A Hate Story
- • Hate Plus
- • Skyscrapers
Love, Hate, puzzles and more make up this week's Link Dump Friday! It also features a very talented little girl, robots with weaponry and a taste for your blood, and a fan-made HD remake of a classic adventure game's intro sequence that's truly... out of this world!
Games Featured:
- • Nightmare Runner
- • Clumsy Cat
- • Endless Escape
Hello, and welcome to Monday! How was your weekend? The usual? Yeah, we know that feel, bro/sis. How about a little mobile news to take your mind off the fact that it isn't the weekend anymore? Escape games? Running games? Yes? Yes!
Games Featured:
- • Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
- • Atticus and Boy Electronic
- • Spud's Quest
Kickstarter has done wonder for games, but what about consoles? Well, there's at least one that looks to be a budding success! Ouya developments, a new teaser trailer for the sequel to Amnesia: The Dark descent, and more on your one and only Link Dump Friday.
Games Featured:
- • On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode Three
- • Grace's Diary
- • GYRO
Slippery slopes and gyroscopes! Diary pages and dinosaurs on rages! More of our collectively beloved games from various platforms are making their way to the mobile scene, and we're as pleased as unlimited data plans (remember those?) to have them aboard!
Games Featured:
- • SCP - Containment Breach
- • Rainbow Nightmare: Libra
- • Mew-Genics
- • SHAKER
There's a lot happening in this week's Link Dump Friday, from a new adorable (but disturbing) project from the mind of Team Meat, to robotic babes, to making interactive fiction easier and more accessible to make and play. And don't blink. Whatever you do, don't blink.
Games Featured:
- • Don't Look Back
- • Granny Smith
- • Star Command
Here's something to mull over as your workweek begins: Don't Look Back, a free mobile release from Terry Cavanagh, does exactly what its name forbids by being a port of a 2009 browser game. Granny Smith is both a granny and a member of the Smith family, whereas Star Command actually lets you command stars—wait, it's a starship commanding game? Oh. Well. Then. Nevermind!
Games Featured:
- • Kat Attack!
- • Motherload
- • Super Motherload
- • Flightless
Space pirates and visual novels... multiplayer arcade revival of a much-loved mining classic... dungeon-delving ducks with magical ladders... there's a lot of weirdness to be found in this week's Link Dump Friday, but we wouldn't have it any other way!
Games Featured:
- • Angry Birds
- • Chaos Rings
Courtroom news? How dare we include something as boring as legal stuff! Don't worry, though, because it's happy law news, not sleep-inducing law jargon. And it'll make you happy, too!
Games Featured:
- • A Game of Dwarves
- • Kingdom Rush
- • Hotline Miami
- • Songmasters
Dwarves, warfare, and Miami... oh, my! This week; two new upcoming releases that are very, VERY different, a spotlight on the creativity of the indie community by none other than PBS, music as a weapon, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Noby Noby Boy
- • Devil's Attorney
- • Sonic Jump
What? Sad news on a Mobile Monday? Sad indeed, fellow gamers. But not without a couple of shots of happy, too. In fact, we'll even argue that the happiness outweighs the sadness, with respective scores of 1.64 and 1.47 as measured on the Jack McBrayer Smile Scale!
Games Featured:
- • BasketBelle
- • Nythros
- • Charnel
- • Slenderman: The Orphanage
- • Slender
This week on Link Dump Friday! A sale for a surreal experimental game about family and sports, an upcoming alpha release for an action RPG, more face time with everyone's faceless terror, and more! Plus, a little girl using video games to cope with her condition, and what Kickstarter means (or doesn't mean) for gaming innovation.
Games Featured:
- • Jetpack Joyride
- • Oceanhorn
- • Scorcery!
Anybody up for some mobile teasing? A fresh batch of news for a fresh week (and month!), just enough details to get you excited for the future but not so much that you'll feel like you know it all. It's a delicate balance to taunt the internet reader, isn't it?
Games Featured:
- • Anodyne
- • Slender: The Arrival
- • Olvand
- • Oozengard
What's on this week's Link Dump Friday? Well, everyone's favourite unspeakable horror gets a business partner and a new upcoming commercial release, a mysterious slime invades your smartphone and overtakes a city, you get the chance to dig through dreams both surreal and unsettling with classic 2D action, and developers talk about what they think made their games tick... and more!
Games Featured:
- • Pocket Planes
- • Dark Nebula
- • Super Hexagon
- • QuestLord
It's an Android love party! As the free Google-made mobile OS turns four years old, several novel casual games make their way to the Google Play store, including one of our all-time favorites, Pocket Planes! And since the green robot is doing so well, developers are working to release even more ports and original games, ensuring you'll never use your phone for phone calls (whatever those are).
Games Featured:
- • Baldur's Gate
- • Project Eternity
- • Nevermind
- • Sealark
- • Loren The Amazon Princess
Comics, adventure, vampires, pulse rates, and even more make an appearance on this week's Link Dump Friday. Webcomic xkcd showcases just how amazing the world really is, your adventure continues with a boneheaded amazon, Baldur's Gate gets a delay, and the next big RPG might just be on the horizon.
Games Featured:
- • Field Runners 2 HD
- • DOOORS
- • The Tiny Bang Story
HD this and updated that! Back in my day, we had to play the game as it was released and like it. Game-crashing bug? Deal with it. And we did. Why, sometimes we had to reprogram our own games while we were playing them. And did I mention we didn't have hands then, either? It's true...
Games Featured:
- • Legend of Grimrock
- • Slender
- • Terraria
- • Baldur's Gate
Horror, adventure, space hamsters, and much more await in Link Dump Friday! An urban legend continues its evolution, a fan-favourite sandbox RPG jumps to consoles, and you guys prove you have some deep, deeeeeep pockets when it comes to video games.
Games Featured:
- • Bad Piggies
- • King of Dragon Pass
- • Year Walk
- • Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart
According to this week's Mobile Monday, horses wear tuxedos, pigs are sinister, and pirates are a thing of nightmares. Unless you live your life by the Everything I Know I Learned from Video Games motto, your world probably isn't affected by this too much. Now, go back to stacking blocks in neat patterns. Just, you know, don't put them in groups of three or more...
Games Featured:
- • Homestuck
- • Incredipede
- • Torchlight 2
- • Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
Physical manipulation, internet in-jokes getting new life, the destruction of all your free time, and much more in this week's Link Dump Friday! From creating a game Finn and Jake would be proud of, to making sure your game can be played by absolutely anyone, there's even a little something for creators as well as us mindless consumers to boot!
Games Featured:
- • Bastion
- • Puzzlejuice
- • Splice
- • Quiet, Please!
It's a week of ports, puzzles and... ok, there's no "p" word for updates, so we'll just have to say "updates" and be done with it. Developers are taking note of the popularity of mobile devices and have adjusted marketing plans to suit, releasing updated ports of downloadable games for our lovely iOS and Android machines. Welcome to the wooooorld of tomorrow!
Games Featured:
- • Defender's Quest
- • Sir, You Are Being Hunted
- • In Verbis Virtus
- • Knock-Knock
- • Worlds Beyond
A hit RPG/tower defense hybrid goes gold, robot hounds are on your trail, there's something terrible at the door, and the universe is all gone. Just your average, ordinary, every day here at Link Dump Friday, with another batch of updates, previews, and seriously awesome indie projects!
Games Featured:
- • Angry Birds Space
- • Final Fantasy Dimensions
- • Eufloria
Well, we now have a 1.17 million pound machine roaming around the surface of Mars. What better way to celebrate than with a new Angry Birds update? Ok, so there are better ways of celebrating, but since half the planet is already playing the game, might as well remind them what's going on in the outside world (er, galaxy), right?
Games Featured:
- • Broken Sword - the Serpent's Curse
- • Welcome to Ponyville
- • The Plan
- • Don't Save the World: An RPG
- • Deozoa: Legends of Eden
- • The Basement Collection
- • Plants vs Zombies
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Do you want to raise an army of finely trained monkeys with mustaches? Or maybe you want to save the world with your own hooves? Or, ooh, how about fend off a horde of zombies using your front lawn? This Link Dump Friday, we know it takes all kinds, and we've got you covered with new Kickstarter projects, enhancements, upcoming releases, and more.
Games Featured:
- • Bag It!
- • Gasketball
- • Mega Man Xover
Ok, ok, let's get this out in the open right now. There's a new Mega Man game coming to iOS. It's not what you think by a longshot, but its name is just... well it's atrocious. It has to be explained in order to be pronounced correctly, which is a mistake a marketing expert should have pointed out. We're looking at you, Fage yogurt company.
Games Featured:
- • Final Fantasy 7
- • Castle Crashers
- • Primorida
- • Mercenary Kings
- • Routine
- • Slender
2012 is shaping up to be the Year of the Adventure Game, with a lot of amazing stuff already behind us and a new title from Wadjet Eye Games and Wormwood Studios on the horizon, but that's not all! A classic RPG comes to your computer, a mission in space goes terribly wrong, a group of developers work to ensure you never want to go into the woods again, and more!
Games Featured:
- • Minecraft: Pocket Edition
- • Dynamite Jack
- • Edge
- • Fez
- • Another World
- • R-Type
More Minecraft is never a bad thing. With the main version receiving some nice updates in a recent rollout, the pocket version also gets its share of the updating fun. Not to be outdone by Minecraft, Mobigame is running a sale and looking for some attention for its well-known (and well-awesome) games, and DotEmu has some discounts for retro-loving Android gamers!
Games Featured:
- • Steam Bandits: Outpost
- • DAYZ
- • The Sea Will Claim Everything
- • Dimiria
- • Angry Birds
- • Starship Corporation
- • Fighting is Magic
Surviving the end of the world, making a profit in the galaxy, taking a trip to the Lands of Dream, and even ponies and fisticuffs! This week's Link Dump Friday features a little bit of everything for a virtual smorgasbord of digital entertainment delivered right into your face holes. Bon appetit!
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