Top down shooters are all about dodging enemy projectiles and making sure the enemy doesn’t dodge yours. At the end of the day, those narratives about great wars and piloting giant Japanese robots are merely façades made to hide that similarity between all shooters that have ever existed. Once you rip that pretence away, what [...]

As a break from all that restaurant-dashing, crop-growing, puzzle-solving madness, Reflexive takes on the adrenaline rush experience in a more conventional way: with spaceships and plenty of guns. Swarm Gold is a remake of the original Swarm they created back in 1998, and with a word like “Gold” in the title, we were really expecting [...]

One of the best things a game developer could ever do is release a sequel that’s way more awesome than an already awesome game. You’re in luck today, because this article contains twice as much awesomeness.

Don’t mess with Flipper. He’s got a laser, and he’s not afraid to use it. That’s the simple and yet incredibly appealing idea behind Laser Dolphin, an arcade-action game that gives you shooting, swimming and jumping activities across the oceans of 4 worlds, on a mission to save the Prime Minister from aliens, somehow. Just [...]

This week’s special Flash Friday focus is a new shooter with an old-school feel to it. If you remember our review of the classic Crimsonland, be prepared to hear a lot of the same things about Robokill.

From the bowels of the extended Reflexive Arcade library of games you have never heard of before comes a simple shooter that’s just better than average enough to get our “give it a try” seal of approval. Sure, it’s not a whopping great recommendation, but it’s not a whopping great game. But sometimes simple retro [...]

If you’ve ever spent some time huddled in a freezing cold duck stand in the middle of nowhere at 6AM being very quiet while someone makes duck calls near you, you’ll appreciate exactly why duck hunting makes such a good videogame (the answer is that you can stay inside and drink hot chocolate while you [...]

The first game out there from United Minds Games, Space Renegades: The Series, is a nice homage to the days of classic arcade shooters and 16-bit graphics. You take the role of one of two space pilots and hop into your ship for some action that’s one part Galaga and one part Space Invaders. It’s [...]

Usually, I would say there are more than enough games that involve spaceships, lasers, and killer gobs of floating goo. Every time I see a little space ship that only moves in two directions, I can only expect so much. To my pleasant surprise, Star Defender 3 exceeded those expectations and not only held my [...]

Plat‧y‧pus: 1. noun. A semiaquatic egg-laying mammal of Australia and Tasmania, having a broad flat tail, webbed feet, and a snout resembling a duck’s bill. 2. noun. An original, fantastic-looking, and incredibly difficult side-scrolling shooter by Retro64 having nothing to do with Platypuses.