Bit Cultures writes: I recently had the honour of experiencing Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist. Perhaps ‘honour’ is slightly over-egging the pudding, it is after all a game available completely free on Steam, but nonetheless it’s fantastic and you should all go out and try it. It’s the first release from new studio Crows Crows Crows, with The Stanley Parable designer William Pugh’s fourth-wall-breaking fingertips all over it
Justin from NoobFeed writes - These 10 indies are some of the strangest ones you’ll find, ranging from the ordinarily strange to the extremely strange.
BacklogCritic: "Walking simulators is a genre that has sprung up in the last couple of years. The definition of the genre is a video game that lacks many of the traditional aspects of a game, such as a win/loss condition despite taking the form of a video game. It originated from the game DayZ, an Arma 2 mod where the main portion of the game had the player traverse a large world without actually doing much.
Many believe that ‘Walking Simulators’ shouldn’t be classed as games, but we here at Backlog Critic enjoy all genres, so today we are going to run down the best Walking Simulators that you can find on Steam as of right now."
Being passionate sorts, we at Power Up Gaming like to pontificate about video games. We tend to discuss their forms, themes and technicalities, whiling away the wee hours as we contemplate the structure of a particularly pleasing Carmack creation. We like to think of ourselves as video game philosophers, agonising over games in mind-expanding ways. Given that, it seems apt to quote Socrates and his famous phrase, "let's play some video games, y'all!"
