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Forget that Norton guy; it's The Laffer Utilities Ver. 4.01! 21 May 2013 | 02:25 pm
Nowadays nobody seems to remember neither them PC Tools nor those over-priced Norton Utilities we all used to install in order to have our PCs actually come close to doing stuff, and I frankly do no...
Scrolls, Lists and Freeware Games 10 May 2013 | 02:10 pm
So, yes, it did have to happen. After years of playing through hundreds of free games and after writing about dozens of the things, well, the time has come for me to finally set up a nice and update-a...
Analog Investigations in Arkham 29 Apr 2013 | 12:57 pm
Deduction, despite what Sherlock Holmes would have you believe, is not a science. It's a method. A method that could arguably make the life of all fictional investigators much easier and can definitel...
Moleman 2: Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms 23 Apr 2013 | 08:46 am
Now that you've spent the last 90 minutes watching the video above and have enjoyed an almost cathartic explosion of algorithmically produced art, you already know you love what the demoscene is doing...
The Cerebral Bundle! It's Alive! It's Indie! It's CLEVER! 19 Mar 2013 | 02:42 pm
Yes, dear reader, the stars have been perfectly aligned and a new Bundle In A Box has been spawned. A very clever bundle. A cunning bundle. A Cerebral Bundle ! Also, a bundle sporting a selection of 9...
Creating the best Monkey Island games possible 18 Mar 2013 | 05:51 pm
Ask anyone with a passing interest in gaming and at least a modicum of taste and they will immediately let you know that both The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge are per...
Ithaka of the Clouds and the future of quality gaming 6 Mar 2013 | 11:50 am
People keep moaning. There aren't enough clever games, they say. Indie gaming is stuck in an idealized retro world that never really existed and keeps churning out platformer after platformer, they ad...
The Strange, Stylish & Endlessly Running Tale Of The Button Affair 5 Mar 2013 | 10:28 am
Do you remember The Cat That Got The Milk and what it did with/to Kandinsky? Excellent! The Button Affair has absolutely nothing to do with it, apart from the fact that it's vaguely in the same wide g...
Asylum: The Kickstartering 12 Feb 2013 | 01:24 pm
Not many know this, but I'm more than proud of the fact that Agustin Cordes first announced the forthcoming Asylum via an interview on this very blog back in 2010. Admittedly, it was called the Unnam...
How to Contact Press & Entertain the Possibility of Feeding Your Indie Self 11 Feb 2013 | 10:13 am
If you are an indie developer and aren't aware of the excellent online resource that is Pixel Prospector , you are seriously missing out. It's a true goldmine of information and inspiration, it is. Wh...
