Springing out of this blog, Radiator seems to be a series of short, freely downloadable, experimental games cum art-pieces that run as mods of Half-Life 2 (you need Episode 2). The first is called Polaris, and is the short story of a quiet date where the narrator is taught to navigate by the stars in [More]

This is Devil’s Tuning Fork (2009), created by the DePaul Gaming Elites, a group of filthy students. An excellent idea – you transmit waves of sound/light to illuminate your surroundings, either in focussed shots or in high and low frequencies depending on the situation or puzzle. Along with an evocative-sounding soundtrack complete with ghostly children’s [More]

Home is one of the reasons I bought a Playstation 3 in Autumn 2008 (the other was LittleBigPlanet). The idea of a console-ready social space really piqued my interest, and I envisioned a kind of Second Life experience integrated into the console’s GUI. I couldn’t have been more wrong, with the Home software (still officially [More]

Free to play (and spotted through Destructoid), this is Continuity, which is a simple yet utterly devious platformer with a difference. It has the usual running and jumping, but also allows you to shuffle the screens like a picture slide so that they can match up. This results in some really tricky brainteasers, as you [More]

Essentially a one-button game, Canabalt sees you running and jumping from building to building Mirror’s Edge style, with some pretty backgrounds and art design, and some thumping music. 5 minutes of joy perhaps, but a high-octane and enjoyable 5 minutes. The game’s just come out for iphone at a price, but the flash game is [More]

I’ve been banging on about Drop7 all week. But here’s the same game playable in browsers – it’s called Chain Factor. It has different modes, and is actually more complex than Drop7, but at its root it’s the same game. What I’m not sure about is how it relates to Drop7. Is Drop7 the same [More]

N is a flash game from 2004. You can still play it for free online, despite the fact that updated versions of the game have been adapted for the DS and for Xbox Live. Which is a treat. It is literally a super-hard one-screen level-by-level platform game. You have a floaty jump, and propel yourself [More]

What an excellent Java game, made in only 4kb for a competition by Markus Persson. It’s a 2D overhead clone of Left 4 Dead, but just single player. But even then you get the same frantic gameplay as Valve’s title. It comes across a little like a rogue-like action game, which I am actually surprised [More]

Here’s another perfectly-formed little gem from Daniel Benmergui. He seems to specialise in games that offer fleeting moments of ingenuity and surprise, finding original ways for us to interact with games within fairly familiar settings. Here you fiddle with the words in a sentence to change the setting, and the way that the objects within [More]

Don’t Look Back
[rating: 4]