Our most esteemed Twitch Streaming associate – Indie – is launching Alpha Beta Gamer day on his Twitch feed today – a weekly feature where he will be exclusively playing games that were featured on the ABG website.

The ABG streams will be every Thursday at 10am PDT, with indie playing through some of the best games featured on Alpha Beta Gamer.  Drop in and … Read More

Glitchhikers (Spotted by Kotaku) is a surreal new game about that meditative place you go when you’re driving alone at night, listening to the radio.  The game explores “that liminal space, that journey, that infinity, our place in the universe, the gothic sublime, love, death, and the adventure that lies between.”  Throughout the game you’ll find yourself driving along the road, listening to the … Read More

Invertium is a dark sci-fi platformer with physics-based mechanics that immerses you in a world of challenging gravity, motion and time puzzles.

In this beautifully animated puzzle/platformer you have the ability to control gravity, stop time and slow physical forces.  These powers are used to solve a variety of physics based puzzles that require logic and fast reaction speeds.  The ability to alter gravity through … Read More

Reprisal Universe is a wonderful pixel art God sim, created as a homage to Populous and the nostalgia of 16 bit games.  It’s a major upgrade to the popular browser game Reprisal, which you can still get through Desura.

The isometric pixel art style is fantastic, it can make things a little confusing when you’re altering the terrain, but it’s worth it to … Read More

Cubic Castles is a great new massively multiplayer building/terraforming game that mixes of Minecraft and Animal Crossing and adds a dash of 3D platforming/exploration to create a fun, easily accessible MMO that everyone can enjoy.

Although technically it’s an MMO, there’s no messing about with filling out personal details and email addresses, just download, choose a name and play.  It’s made by three former PopCap… Read More

Zenzizenzic is far more than a word that someone made up to cheat at Scrabble, it’s also a skilful Twin-stick shooter full of intricate bullet patterns and a mesmerising minimalistic beauty.  Best played with a 360 control pad, you can play with up to 2 players, weave through intricate bullet patterns, dodge and shoot enemies with a variety of weapons to achieve the best high … Read More

Social Justice Warriors is a role-playing game, inspired by the ridiculous list of “social justice warrior” videogame journalists to avoid.  It transforms you into a crusader for online morality, a champion of internet justice, and the lone defender standing valiantly against the encroaching morass of wilful human ignorance.

You’re given a choice of four different classes – Paladin, Cleric, Mage and Rogue – all … Read More

WildStar is a highly anticipated science fiction/fantasy MMORPG that takes place on the fictional planet Nexus, where a mysterious and powerful race known as the Eldan has disappeared leaving behind a wealth of technology and secrets for players to explore.  It features big bold visuals and lots of character, a persistent world, plenty of customisation, and the ability for players to own their own piece … Read More

Roche Fusion is a fast paced, hardcore arcade shoot-em-up with snazzy special effects, lots of over the top weaponry, big boss battles and procedurally generated attack waves.

It’s a tough game, that rewards skill and fast reflexes.  Battles take place on a single screen, with enemies swooping in for procedurally generated wave based attacks, making the game feel like Space Invaders on steroids at times.  … Read More

Minimum is an awesome looking online third person shooter from Atari, with RTS and RPG elements where players must work together to develop a strategy to win.  Teams fight over the world’s energy and use Titans to break down each other’s walls.

The Beta will feature the games primary game mode – Titan, a mode where each team has one Titan between them, players must … Read More

ARGO Online is a steampunk-influenced MMORPG with fast, fluid, dynamic combat that pits steampunk against nature in epic battles and sieges.

It features a unique optional third-person shooter mode, allowing for fast, fluid, dynamic combat with smart-casting skills.  It’s got 16 unique classes, steampunk-influenced armour, weapons and mounts, huge guild housing and a Castle Wars siege system.

It’s a good looking game with  a cool

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Apsis is a beautiful looking game where you guide a flock of birds through a world where earth, sky and stars are woven together.

You’ll start off with one bird and slowly gather your flock, picking up stray birds along the way.  It’s not plain sailing as sharp rocks, high winds, and predators all threaten to scatter your flock into the wind, but the beautiful … Read More

Conquest of Champions is a nice blend of Collectible Card Gaming and tabletop tactical warfare. Build your personal deck from over 130 cards and bring them to life by summoning fully animated creatures, casting devastating spells and equipping powerful weapons.

CoC features Asynchronous PVP or Real Time PVP as well as single player practice battles, with a plan to implement a full single player campaign … Read More

Archlord 2 Beta Sign-Ups are now open on the games odd side-scrolling website.  It’s an intense PvP medieval fantasy MMORPG with a rich universe, varied content and quick quest-based levelling.

You can instantly join parties for fast-paced, instanced PvP Battlegrounds and PvE content for both parties and raids.  Participate in massive 400 player battles that offer a variety of playstyles and tactics and place you … Read More

Flick Knights in a cartoon-styled multiplayer game where players flick their team’s characters across the screen, trying to eliminate the opposing team’s base and its members.

Matches in Flick knights can be played live or asynchronously against online opponents and are fast paced, turn based affairs with strategy elements and lots of fun special moves.  You can recruit lots of imaginative and well drawn characters, … Read More

Happy Wars, the cartoon-style online role-playing strategy game for Xbox 360 is now coming to Steam.  It recieved mixed reviews upon release on 360, but with a few minor improvements it could make for a fun, chaotic multiplayer experience upon it’s Steam release.

The 360 version is an enjoyable enough game with a short story driven single player campaign and a focus on multiplayer, which … Read More

Eclipse War Online is a new card collecting MMORPG with over 700 cards to collect and the ability for your character to transform into an monster in the game.

This transformation ability dramatically changes the game, with a selection of monsters that’s wide and varied, including Ent-style creatures, behemoths, sorcerers, ogres, insects and birds.  It’s an interesting gameplay mechanic, and means that there’s always a … Read More

Rubble N Strafe is an addictive side-scrolling arcade helicopter game with some wonderful pixel art and fast paced gameplay inspired by Harrier Attack.

After you’ve chosen your helicopter (Rubble or Strafe), you set forth into a 2D procedurally generated pixellated battlezone, blowing up things to an excellent soundtrack reminiscent of John Carpenter scores.  As in the old classic Chopper (NOT Flapppy bird – this … Read More

Survarium is a massively multiplayer FPS game set a desolate, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. style, near future where environmental disasters, NPP explosions and chemical plant catastrophes have caused extensive contamination over large areas.  Civilization has been derailed and nature has slowly taken over, with new species, better adapted to survive in the new conditions.

The game focuses on the aftermath of a massive ecological catastrophe on Earth, with … Read More

Shards is an interesting indie sandbox MMORPG with huge modding potential being developed by Citadel Studios, a team made up of developers from Ultima Online, DAOC and Warhammer Online.

It’s a seriously ambitious game, allowing players can fully customize their experience with extensive modding tools that will allow them to create and run their own MMO, with their own rules, themes and systems.  … Read More

Dogs of War is a great looking online turn based strategy game that offers deep tactical gameplay and is inspired by an extension of the Confrontation miniatures game.

With a choice of three factions, you spend Army Points to build a hierarchical group of mercenaries from the units of your choice, then send them on missions, or battle against online opponents.  Each event earns resource … Read More

PRISM is an old school top down arcade shoot-em-up with one game changing difference – you don’t shoot directly at the enemies, instead you shoot through a prism in the centre of the screen, which then spreads your shot out the other side.  You can choose whether the shots go straight through the prism, or bounce off them like a mirror.  This works well once … Read More

Dead Pixels 2  is a bigger and better follow-up to Dead Pixels, a fun retro side-scrolling action game, with zombies.  The Devs compare Dead Pixels 2 to the Evil Dead 2 – improving upon the flaws of the original Dead Pixels and use an actual budget to make sure the whole thing is polished, not a remake, but not a sequel and superior … Read More

Dizzel

It’s a game that definitely doesn’t take itself too seriously, with over the top violence, fast paced gameplay and a selection of brutal fatalities you can use to finish off enemies.  There are also a variety of game modes, such … Read More

Playtown is a colourful and cheerful Multiplayer Virtual World where you can visit real world locations reimagined with a unique goony look, socialise and play games with friends.

It’s a lively and enjoyable experience, with lots of minigames (Basketball, backgammon and darts for example), vehicles to ride, objectives and dynamic quests.  You can also customise yuour character with an extensive selection of clothing, and customise … Read More

Orbital Gear is a great looking multiplayer 2D shooter where you can jump between small Mario Galaxy style planetoids, utilizing their gravity to give your mech momentum through space.

The final version will have four different mechs and and twelve different weapons to take into battle, with the various game modes including ‘Orbital Warfare’ – a siege mode where the goal is to destroy the … Read More

Dwarf Tower is a great turn based tactics game where you build, defend and fortify your tower while using spells and weapons to bring down your opponents one.  It’s got a simple, but stylish pixel art aesthetic that offers a pleasingly simple way of building your towers and allows you to focus on the rather addictive gameplay.

A successful tower will consist of 4 main … Read More

The Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will be going into Open Beta on PS4 from the 22nd of Feb to the 3rd of March, with a second phase planned for the 4th of April 4 to the 7th of April.

If you want to download the 11GB client before the Beta Test (which we’d recommend), you can add it to your download queue through … Read More

Four Sided Fantasy is a beautiful looking and intelligent puzzle/platformer which messes with perspective, allowing you to freeze the screen at any point and use a clever wraparound feature to pass between the edges of the screen.  The Prototype for Four Sided Fantasy – The Fourth Wall – is a fantastic puzzle/platformer that uses the same wraparound feature that the Four Sided Fantasy uses and … Read More

Grand Chase Online is an side-scrolling arena hack and slash MMO with fun, fast paced, arcade-style fighting mechanics and wonderful Anime visuals.

Previously available on Gamerage, the game has recently migrated hosts.  It allows for 3v3 team based fighting and 6 player survival, with the last man standing being crowned the winner.  There’s also a job system that allows you to learn advanced fighting techniques … Read More