Chris Dahlen's posts

Human Centipede: The Game
Creator: I-Mockery, Rainbow Cemetery
Platform: Browser
Price: Free
How the major studios…

Coming right on the heels of Brenda Braithwaite’s talk on Train—a board game about the holocaust that has brought…

Independent game developer Jason Rohrer (Passage, Between) is best known as a leading maker of art games: games that…

Chris Avellone came into the games industry writing pen-and-pencil role-playing games. An opportunity in the late…

I will never understand the cult of Mario.

BioWare is a leader in role-playing games, but the company became famous for its stories: complex, branching…

Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead
Creator: Eric Ruth
Platform: PC
Price: Free
It's said that the test of a well-written song…

It was a truncated year in games, as publishers pushed their late-2009 releases into the next calendar year. Whether…

We keep coming back to videogames for the same reasons we always have. Or do we? Games in 2009 look considerably…

Castlevania: The Bloodletting
Creator: Piscesdreams
Platform: PC (beta)
Price: Free
When Sega’s 32X peripheral for…

Icycle
Creator: Damp Gnat
Platform: Browser
Price: Free
Icycle hit the web around the same time as Canabalt, and as a…

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!: A Reckless Disregard For Gravity—or Aaaaa! for short—takes all the fear out of…

Time Donkey
Creator: Blurst Games
Platform: Browser
Price: Free 
The joy of Blurst’s games (like Off-Road…

Spider: The Secret Of Bryce Manor
Creator: Tiger Style Games
Platform: iPhone/iPod Touch
Price: $2.99
To beat Spider:…

It’s becoming clear that a great game doesn’t need to be a $60, hundred-hour time-sink. Game developers are testing…

A legend of modern horror comics, Steve Bissette first made his name as the artist on The Saga Of The Swamp Thing,…

At this year’s Game Developers Conference, two trends in indie games were evident. At the Experimental Gameplay…

It’s World War II, and sexy British super-spy Violette Summer lies at death’s door in a hospital. In her delirium,…

The directions are simple: Little Red Ridinghood must follow the path to Grandmother’s House. No matter what, she…

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