Checkmate With Play Magnus

Play Magnus is a unique app that challenges players to face the world’s best chess player, Magnus Carlsen, at different phases of his life. The goal is to get more young people interested in chess. Find out how successful they’ve been so far.

This War of Mine is Depressingly Brilliant

What would you do to survive? This War of Mine follows ordinary people trying to scavenge and survive in a city besieged by civil war. Moral choices occur daily, and suicide is as much a danger as snipers.

Battle Fleet 2 Proceeds Donated To National Museum of the Pacific War

To honor the anniversary of the Dec 7th 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Capital j Media is donating 50 percent of it’s profits from three days of sales of Battle Fleet 2 to the National Museum of the Pacific War. Capital j Media will donate 50 percent of its profits from sales between Dec 7th […]

Games That Don’t Bog Players Down

Independent developer Victoria Arnold from Open Name Ltd talks with GiN about making good games that kids can play quickly before moving on to other things. Their first titles Bog Racer and Cut The Buttons have been wildly successful.

Monument Valley and Why the Best Things Aren’t Free

Monument Valley

Last week was all about Monument Valley, for me. I first found it on a fellow gamer’s Pinterest board and promptly added it to my ‘must play’ list. Then it was nominated in the Time best looking games of the year list and I thought ‘there’s that game again’. But before I could buy it, […]

Retro Game Friday: Rayman 2

Ever play a game that was so frustrating that you wanted to give up altogether? That’s how Michael felt back when he first played Rayman 2: The Great Escape! Jump on in for his impressions on this old classic in this week’s Retro Game Friday.

Hiding in Prop Hunt Mobile

Welcome Time Wasters! This week I fell back to my phone for my time wasting needs and I discovered a mobile version of an immensely entertaining PC game: Prop Hunt. Well, it’s more of a mod than an actual game. Prop Hunt Mobile is exactly what it sounds like; a mobile version of Prop Hunt […]

Robots Need Love Too

Meg takes a look at Robots Need Love Too, an iOs puzzle game about two lovestruck robots from Elephant Mouse.