Jim Franklin

If you’re looking for a game that takes the thrill of drift and pushes it into your face, then you may be interested in ‘HotBlood Drift’ an indie game from Mobile indie game developer WANGMUL that launched recently. In the…

Every video game has some level of obsolescence built-in. No developer expects their game to last forever. Even games like World of Warcraft have an expiry date on them. The Flock, Vogelsaps first-person asymmetrical multiplayer horror game takes this concept…

Blowfish Studios sat down and wondered what it would be like if there was a game with the world building properties of Minecraft all squashed together with the elements of a first person shooter. Then they stopped thinking about it,…

My last what am I playing post was written all the way back at the start of May, and in these three months things have shifted, games I couldn’t put down three months ago have made way for new games…

If you cast your mind pack a few days you may remember me posting about a Roman Chariot racing game called Chariot Wars. Chariot Wars is a racing game in which you pit your chariot against some of the greatest…

Funding a video game can be an expensive business. Large software companies can pump millions into a release, with massive budgets being bounced around to get that perfect game. But what do you do, if you’re an indie developer with…

Over the past few months there have been several games that smoosh (technical term) board games, card games and RPG’s together, Hand of Fate and Dicetiny spring to mind. Although each of them share similar smooshing techniques the elements are…

Imagine what would happen if you took some World of Warcraft gnomes, strapped heavy weaponry to them and threw them into a Gauntlet style environment. Well don’t bother, because Witch Beam has already done it, in the form of their…

Chariot Wars is a Chariot racing arcade game, available now on Steam, that uses the format of Mario Kart but with the loincloth and sandal wearing Romans of yester-century. Unlike Mario Kart, there’s a story. Emperor Hadrian organises a Chariot…

The Repopulation, is a kickstarter-funded MMO from Above and Beyond which not only has fully customisable towns but also apparently, no levelling. The no-levelling is an interesting concept, as it’s the levels that push your character and the storyline along.…