Xbox Indie Games News and Reviews

Activision might be about as indie as Metallica these days, but that hasn’t stopped the goliath of a publisher from releasing Dark Reign Redux on Xbox Live Indie Games for $5. The remake of the 1997 PC RTS popped up on the Marketplace yesterday with nary a press release or hint of marketing to support it. At least Activision got that part of the indie formula correct. The port was handled by Magnetar Games, and there is also a browser-based …

There aren’t enough great games in the strategy and simulation sub-category of Xbox Live Indie Games, so it was a pleasure to discover “High Gravity Wells”. The game has you guiding spaceships to space stations through progressively more challenging and dangerous routes by using the four face buttons to activate gravity wells that modify the [...]

Tis another week of Freds Fridays from Sticky DPad Games. You can also follow them on twitter at @StickyDPadGames I am sorry to inform you that I have nothing much to write, so the exclusive part is the screenshot below. That’s right, below me! Enjoy the Zombie Carnage! Filed under: Events, Previews, The Voice of [...]

Major Nelson released the Xbox Live Activity for the week of January 16th and to no ones surprise, Call of Duty dominates the charts. What is a little worrying though, the great Xbox Live Indie Game, DLC Quest, is currently at 17th on the sales charts. That needs to change, go out and buy it to support great Indie games!

We’ve reached the end of our week-long journey with Homework — the upcoming Xbox Live Indie Games project from developer Taurice Couser. Today’s post focuses on the game’s environments, sketches and art found throughout the actual game....

Released this last summer during the height of XBLIG puzzle season, unofficially of course, but it sure seemed that way, Pixel Blocked! became one of the Fish’s favorite puzzlers, indie or otherwise (you can see our review here), presently holding...

This is a great title if you like doing headshots. What happens is you have enemies who are disguised as normal people. You are a sniper who is given a mission. You are told who the enemy is disguised as such as a nurse. You then have to immediately find the nurse amongst the crowd and shoot him. But you have to do this fast. So not only do you have to find him fast, you have to accurately shoot him without hitting the people around him. The graphics are nice and sharp. The action is fast, and the controls are good. And if you truly get a direct head shot, it has this cool slow-mo effect of the bullet heading toward the guy before you get the splat. It starts off quite easy but soon ramps up the difficulty. The only reason I gave it an 8 instead of a 10 is all you do is headshots so there's not a lot of variety. Give this a try because it's very satisfying when you shoot the guy at the very last second with your bullet barely missing the adjacent innocent.

I’m fighting a bad cold and it’s laid me low, so no detailed review today, but I quite enjoyed messing around with “Stick Unleashed” (the sequel to “Stick ‘Em Up”, which I chose not to review). “Stick Unleashed” rises above other stick figure games (including its predecessor) by having multiplayer (both co-op and competitive) and, [...]

Sinister corporations tend to be a bit obstinate when it comes to changing their nefarious ways or closing up shop entirely. Heck, sometimes it can take several sequels before they finally take the hint. Vilhelm Industries will return to reprise its role as the freedom-hating enterprise later this year in Miasma 2. ESP Games recently released a lengthy video walking through the combat and introducing some of the new features it has implemented in hopes to improve on its predecessor. There’s a …

I absolutely love the game, my friends and I spend more time on it than I'd like to admit but, you could add one or two things to make it even better. Things like water and lava, and maybe something to move the water and lava, it would be really cool to build a castle with a moat (or maybe a LAVA moat). Maybe add something like tracks and a mine cart, along with some other little things to keep us busy and customize our worlds.

Also another thing would be something to use as a checkpoint....such as a bed you make out of materials that would also have to be added in like sheep for wool for cloth and then add that to wood....pretty much like mine craft because it is very annoying being 15 seconds from your fort....dying and running back to find your inventory gone.

This game makes checkers less boring and adds a awesome twist! I would tell anyone to buy it! Can't beat it for 1$!!

FYI update is now available and well worth the d/l!! I just updated my game of BloodyCheckers and the only thing I can say is WOW and still only 80ms pts!! This was a good game before but now it’s a great game. If anyone was waiting to buy this they need to buy it now if you ever played checkers in your life (who hasn’t) or if you like dungeon crawlers/RPG type games. Those that already own this need to revisit it. As for the main quest they added new textures to everything in the castle AND some surprises as well (hint: killing bats that scare you at first help you earn gold)! And they have added a whole new section where it teaches the finer art of checkers for anyone looking to go pro or just get better at the game so you can show off to your friends. Oh and there is a multiplayer available over Live that I’m not sure was there before (I play only single player games for the most part) This game is a steal now….get it before they increase the price. I bought it when it first came out and I’m so glad the update is out finally!

Wondering what kind of depth and detail has gone into the character models for Homework that the still screenshots have failed to show? Well, developer Taurice Couser has bestowed a 360 degree fly-around of the main character...

Not surprised to see CastleMiner Z at the top of the list again given the number of reviews it has been getting.

When you see a game with simple (arguably uninspired) box art, a cheesy title (“Alien Super Mega Blaster”), no multiplayer, and screen shots that suggest it’s a simplistic Space Invaders clone, there’s no way it could be any good, right? Well, don’t judge a book by its cover, as this game surprised me. Unlike most [...]

This game is a must buy if you enjoy block building games and zombies put together. You have to fight off waves of zombies while building and its actual waves instead of randomly spawning monsters. This is great because it displays what wave you are on and they get increasingly hard as you progress through the waves.

We’ve got a cavalcade of screengrabs showing off Homework’s hero, fully textured and in action in today’s preview. We’ve also got developer Taurice Couser’s thoughts on the texture mapping process. Our day two feature can be found...

Contest is closed! Thanks to everyone who entered, and congrats to Jody Owsley (@viper1829) on winning. Okay, admit it. It’s fun to be bad. It’s okay, we won’t tell your parents. We don’t want them thinking they raised you to be some kind of hooligan or something. But acting our your maniacal powertrip fantasies in a video game like EvilQuest? That’s perfectly normal. And if there is anything better than paying a measly buck for a darned good game, it’s …

Big Corporation introduces free expansion DLC to "BloodyCheckers".  The Update is currently available to all Xbox 360 owners through Xboxlive Game Marketplace.   This Expansion Update is free to all gamers who have previously purchased the game.  Xbox Gamers have been enjoying the most violent and bloody game of 3D checkers and castle questing ever created on Indie Games.

Zombies, Russians, spaceships and robot cowboys? Heck of a strange week for the old indies, as evidenced by a Christmas game that missed the mark by about a month or so. It was a pretty tight battle between Hypership and Blocks for the prestigious award, but in end the cubical undead put the brakes on that out-of-control ship. Armless Octopus Bloody Tentacle Award of the Week Block Zombies! – Mike Block Zombies! gives a cubical middle finger to all those …

At first glance I wouldn’t have given “Asteroid Pooper” much of a chance at being great, but I was surprised by the subtle tactical elements in it that set it apart. Let’s start by ignoring the silly name, and focusing on the gameplay. Your goal is to collect space dust, compact it into an asteroid, [...]

Click each BoxArt to be brought the MarketLink Rainbow Rapture: Ok so I heard some reviews about this game being somewhat of a comparison the Tiny Wings. I honestly haven’t played the title. I try to avoid games with birds in them. I did however watch some videos on the game, wasn’t very pleased with [...]

Welcome to day two of our exclusive coverage of Homework, a game coming to the Xbox Live Indie Games channel. Today we’ll be taking a look at a preview track from the game’s soundtrack. Be sure to...

It has been rumoured for about a day now that Microsoft is planning to completely remove Microsoft Points, opting for real money instead. Here are four reasons why that is a good idea.

Microsoft Is No Longer The Odd Man Out