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Whether or not you enjoy thinking about how to pronounce “GIF,” I imagine you enjoy looking at them! After seeing the beautiful GIF above tweeted from Asteroid Base, I thought it would be a nice way to spend Friday looking at several developers’ games here. Who knows, maybe it’ll catch on with the community, and next week we’ll have more GIFs to gawk at. Onto the GIFs! (From above) Asteroid Base’s

[IndieGames is wrapping up its year in review, with lists including the Top 10 (Free) Platformer Games, Top 10 (Free) Puzzle Games of 2012, Top 10 (Free) Experimental Games of 2012, Top 10 Indie Adventure Games of 2012, Top 10 Indie Strategy Games of 2012, Top 10 Indie Horror Games of 2012, Top 10 Indie Shoot-‘Em-Ups of 2012 and our Top 10 Indie Games of 2012 (+2!).] Upon reviewing the top 10 plat

While arcade-styled shoot-’em-ups are practically extinct in the world of retail releases, the genre still has a lot of life left in it, as indie developers continue to prove year after year. This roundup covers a broad spectrum of niches and tastes, and its featured titles showcase surprising ingenuity and innovation in a genre that’s as old as video gaming itself. Here are my favorite indie shoo

Between Xbox Live Arcade and the Xbox Live Indie Games service, Xbox 360 owners have no shortage of great indie games to choose from. While XBLIG represents an untamed frontier largely suited for experimentation, Xbox Live Arcade is a haven for polished, focused efforts from some of the industry’s most talented creators. This year saw the release of many great indie-produced efforts for Xbox Live

A Top 10 Indie Games of 2012 list just couldn’t fit all of our must-play titles of the year. Instead, we’re shoehorning the industry standard by adding two more, because we can and more importantly, because we must. If 2011 represented an “indie boom” for the scene, 2012 was an indie-vasion on all fronts. Free, paid, and free-to-play indie games revitalized aging Sony and Microsoft consoles, were

Breaktris is a two-player mash-up of Breakout and Tetris, developed with love for the 2012 MolyJam. One player controls the paddle with the mouse to play Breakout on the left-hand side of the screen. The other player uses the arrow keys to play Tetris on the right-hand side of the screen. Player one messes with player two by breaking enough bricks to get the ball passed the top of the screen and d

Roadeo is a two-player racing game that presents a rather clever idea: one person can choose to control the car, while the other can decide how the road should be built for his or her friend to drive on. In the versus mode, the player controlling the car has to keep his or her vehicle on the road, while the other person needs to avoid building a track that ends up colliding with a tree or a tall s

Reprisal is a browser-based strategy game by Jon Caplin that’s clearly inspired by Populous – you play as a deity who has god-like powers to terraform the land and lead his followers to victory over opposing forces. You’ll need mana to cast anything in this game, which is provided in a steady stream from your believers. The powers at your disposal range from raising the sea water level to drown pe