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 [...]

I really wanted to like this game. Since the explosion of the casual game genre in 2005, there has been a sort of deeply held belief that the only people playing casual games are soccer moms and grandmothers. But statistics show quite clearly that a good solid third to half of the casual game audience [...]

All too often people make the mistake of assuming casual and indie games are all simple and showy and lacking in any depth. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard my “hardcore” gamer friends dismiss a title just for being casual. Well, Mitorah’s game, Battles of Norghan, is a swift kick to the teeth [...]

It’s been a very long time since we have been as completely blown away by a game as we were with Defcon. Sure, it’s no virtual gem-swapper, and the subject matter is probably going to turn off a lot of people who play casual games, but work this good deserves to be seen as much [...]