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After the first recording was sacrificed to the Podcasting Gods (OK, transformed into a zero-byte file) Robert and Say are back to deliver another episode of IndieOutlook. This week we cover Ronin, Not a Hero, ...

The annual arrival of Madden NFL signals two things. Unmistakably, it indicates that the commencement of the professional football season is just weeks away, with the Steelers facing off against the Patriots on September tenth. ...

As a habitual rail commuter, I’ve grown accustomed to setbacks. Regularly, the morning train is at least ten minutes behind schedule. Other times, the locomotive careens past its designated stopping point, forcing the train to ...

Polarized pundits will tell you why you shouldn’t buy Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library & the Monster Seal. Self-appointed virtue cadets and page-view pursuers have complained about the game’s content, finding the Aquaplus-developed title ...

Roguelikes along with platformers, have become a genre of choice for your average indie developer. This focus on categories abandoned by the AAA industry allows smaller developers to carve a niche for themselves without having ...

When Apple announced official controller support for iOS 7, many assumed that the era of uncooperative control schemes was coming to an end. While the iPod, iPhone, and iPad were great for games designed around ...

From a soaring soundtrack and the strains of Andy Serkis’ voicework in Volume to ZombiU no longer being a Wii U exclusive, this week’s collection of new game releases offers a number of slight surprises. ...

A hero’s journey to the underworld is ubiquitous in narrative tradition. As far back as the third century B.C., the Argonautica detailed Orpheus’ decent to rescue Eurydice, returning his beloved wife to the world of ...

From blazing fast CPUs, discrete graphics processors, and SSD drives, high-end laptops have enjoyed a number of evolutionary elements across the last few years. But some of the most substantial changes in portable computing have ...

Synergy doesn’t automatically materialize when prodigious talent comes together. From Ocean’s Twelve disastrous attempt to recreate the energy of Steven Soderbergh’s first film to Enter the Matrix‘s tragic union of Shiny Entertainment,  Wachowski-penned mythos, and ...