Author: Jack Slater

  • Subsurface Circular

    Mike Bithell, of Thomas Was Alone and Volume fame, surprised everyone by announcing a game and releasing it on the same day. Subsurface Circular promises a new text-based adventure investigator to discover the reason why robots are disappearing in this underground subway mystery. Subsurface Circular is a short game, but it’s also pretty inexpensive for…

  • Nidhogg 2 Day

    Couch 1v1 stab-em-up Nidhogg 2 is out today. I loved the first game’s vaguely Atari 2600-era graphics. This one appears to have a “Weird ass SNES” style going on, complete with a Yoshi’s Island world map and online multiplayer. So close! #Nidhogg2 launches Aug15th on #PlayStation4 https://t.co/z8yihneTwU and #Steam https://t.co/VMVKlQsg2i Preorder for a discount! pic.twitter.com/D94FzxxhCA…

  • West of Loathing

    About 14 years ago a game called Kingdom of Loathing sprang out of the wacky mind of Zack Johnson. Kingdom is a free, wacky, online browser-based RPG with goofy hand-drawn stick figures, and funny as hell. It’s been so long since I played that I can’t even remember what email address I ever used to…

  • StarCraft Remastered Available

    Blizzard have gone and done it, the remastered versions of StarCraft and its expansion Brood War are available on Battle.net for Windows and macOS at $15. Back when these remasters were announced Blizzard had said that the Battle.net name was going away, they’ve gone back on that and will now call it Blizzard Battle.net, which…