A fine example of the recent tradition of cleverly designed, highly stylized, more-or-less indie 2D games, Winterbottom is a puzzle platformer relying on clone abuse and pie stealing.
The Maw is an action-adventure video game developed by independent developer Twisted Pixel Games. It was released on Xbox Live Arcade on January 21, 2009, and for Microsoft Windows on March 9, 2009. It became available via Steam on March 10, 2009. The game revolves around a blue alien by the name of Frank, and a purple blob named Maw, that he leads around the game world, feeding and evolving.
The game won the 2008 Audience Choice award at PAX10, and is currently a finalist at the Independent Games Festival 2009.
Passage is a freeware game. But perhaps game is the wrong word - there aren't really any objectives to complete. It's more like a five minute metaphor for your unremarkable life, the irreversible process of aging, and your inevitable destiny to die alone, unloved, and forgotten.
Episodic 3D point-n-click adventure game from the makers of the Sam & Max series.
SW is a snowboard game with multiple challenges to choose from in open environments, not unlike the late Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series' most recent titles. The Scimitar engine (Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia 2008) supposedly allows the gameplay to rely solely on physics whereas most "board" games are animation-based. A more obvious feature though is that you can control your avatar through some half-pipe fun during loading times, something AC's Altayr probably misses terribly.
Alone in the Dark was developed by Eden Games.
This is a survival horror game set in New York City. Being aware of the environment around your character is the key to staying alive.
The walls! What is in the walls?
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One is a comedic RPG based on characters from the popular gaming webcomic Penny Arcade, and set in a stylized 1920s America. You take control of a character of your own creation, and join up with Gabe and Tycho to chase a giant robot of mysterious origin (and with a fetish for fruit) that crushes your home. The game was developed by Hothead games and carefully presided over by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, the creators of Penny Arcade. It's an episodic game and is expected to have at least four episodes.
Resident Evil 4, known in Japan as Biohazard 4, is a survival horror third-person shooter video game developed by Capcom Production Studio 4 and published by multiple publishers, including Capcom, Ubisoft, Nintendo Australia, Red Ant Enterprises and THQ Asia Pacific.
RoboBlitz is an indie, third person, puzzle-action game for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox 360. The player controls Blitz, a robot who attains special upgrade weapons and powers to fight his foes, based upon how much "Upgradium" he can find in the game. Special powers include unique weapon, energy and movement upgrades.
Another World (UK, Australia) / Out of This World (Rest of the world) is a DOS-era shooter from Delphine Software and Interplay. You play as Lester Chaykin, a physics professor, stranded in an alien universe after an experiment goes haywire. This re-release, which uses the game's European title of Another World, is fully WinXP compatible, has support for high resolutions, and has all-new artwork designed to take advantage of the high resolutions that can be turned off if desired.
