Calum Fraser

Founder of Alpha Beta Gamer and all round video game enthusiast, especially quirky indies. Been playing games since the zx spectrum days, and aware that we're now in the golden days of video gaming. Part human, part wookie, far hairier than any human should be. Favorite game of all time has to be Super Mario World, closely followed by Super Mario Bros (still got a soft spot for Nintendo).

Art Games At SAIC: A Retrospective – Student Project Download

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Art Games At SAIC A Retrospective

Art Games At SAIC: A Retrospective is an impressive virtual museum full of surreal, strange and beautiful artwork, virtual sculptures and interactive exhibits.

Created by students of the 2015 SAIC Art Game class, Art Games At SAIC: A Retrospective houses all the work they did over the semester in one interactive virtual environment.  As you explore the museum, you’re never sure what’s coming next, with … Read More

Dirty Bomb – Open Beta (Steam)

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dirty bomb

Dirty Bomb has now entered Open Beta on Steam!  We first covered the Closed Beta back in January, but now everyone’s able to enjoy the fast paced team-based FPS from Splash Damage (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Brink and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars).

Set in a post-apocalyptic London, Splash Damage vowed to take first person shooters back to their roots with Dirty Bomb, … Read More

Prime Orbit – Student Project Download

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prime orbit game

Prime Orbit is an impressive first-person sci-fi puzzle/platformer in which you use the power to rotate objects and platforms to aid your escape from a strange alien planet.

After crash-landing your ship on a deserted, technologically advanced alien planet, you and your wise-cracking droid must find a way to escape it.  Thankfully there is another ship that you can use, but unfortunately you’re not sure … Read More

Defragmented – Pre-Alpha Demo

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defragmented game

Defragmented is a cool cyberpunk action-RPG that blends fast, fluid and super tough top-down gunplay inspired by Hotline Miami, with looting and RPG elements inspired by Borderlands and Diablo.

The sense of style in Defragmented impresses as soon as you boot it up, as you’re hit with it’s crisp cyberpunk visuals and superb pulsing electronic soundtrack.  You play a lone gunman, in a cyberpunk  story … Read More

GRIDBERD – Beta Demo

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GRIDBERD

GRIDBERD is a very freaky first person survival horror with near photo-realistic CryEngine-powered visuals and plenty of terrifying scares.

Starting off chained to a chair, about to undergo a Hostel-esque bit of torture in the hands of an axe wielding maniac, you’re granted a temporary reprieve from your doom and use it as a chance to escape.  You find that you’re in the abandoned … Read More