Okay, so you may feel worn out by the glut of amazing indie 2D puzzle-platformers over the last few years. I thought I would be too, after having played “Braid,” “Blocks That Matter,” “P.B. Winterbottom,” “And Yet It Moves,” “NyxQuest,” “Gish,” “Super Meat Boy,” and a dozen others I...

An old friend of mine recently pointed me in the direction of the freshman project for software developer Techtonic Games. The game, entitled BUST-N-RUSH, is a new indie action/puzzle game built with Unity. In the hours I’ve spent with it, I’ve come to a series of conclusions that I hope will help potential buyers make a decision, and maybe lead to some...

Growing up, my older brother was ever the math geek; he’s now a math teacher at a State University-funded high school that specializes in math and science. He taught me the beauty of the quadratic equation and the mystery of the imaginary number when I was a wee lad, giving me an academic advantage over my peers. So when Christmas came, and my mother bought...

As stated on our most recent episode of Jurassic Radio, I downloaded this surprisingly cheap PSN title because it was being touted for musical involvement from Nobuo Uematsu. When I first downloaded it, I didn’t care what the content of the game was, I just wanted to hear something different from Uematsu. Turns out, the music was actually synth-arranged J.S....

Question: What’s the best way to tell that a game has really hooked you? Answer: When, every time you sit down to write about the game, you instead decide to go play it some more. (okay, maybe that only happens to people who review games on a regular basis…) Such has been my experience with DROPLITZ. I had only heard about this new puzzle game because it...