If you follow me on Twitter or have spotted the site tagline you will have noticed we will have a new domain name soon. I will announce the domain name on Sunday night once the DNS has updated. The new domain is quite catchy and I hope you will like it as everyone that I have mentioned it to did. Now onto the round up of indie game news from the past few days.
Before the news I just wanted to mention I will be posting a request for new reviewers to join the site later today. I am looking for two reviewers as the demand for games reviews is getting to be quite high for myself and another to cope with. More news later on.
Fun Infused let us know they have uploaded a new gameplay trailer for their soon to be released game Abduction Action. You control a alien spacecraft and must complete tasks such as abducting humans and dropping rocks on animals. The game looks to be quite fun so one to keep an eye on. You can view the trailer here and check out the homepage for some more information.
H3 Game Studio released some work in progress images of their game Convenient Chaos. I am not sure what the game is yet but it looks good so far. Check out the images here.
XBLA Ratings posted a preview of Dust Devils which should be hitting the Marketplace this month. Try to survive on the surface of Mars alone or together with a friend in 2 player co-op mode. Collect and harvest the crystals to gain points and buy upgrades. Check it out here.
Here is a round up of reviews from other websites, the (2) means there is a second review on another site. Brixx, Goblyn Stomp, Snail Shot Torpedo, Tobes Vertical Adventure, Office Disorders (2), Your Doodles Are Bugged, A Dreamland Chronicles, You Will Die (2), Canno Blast, Four Player Tangerine Fight (2), Along Came A Spider and Hard 2 Morro (2).
Before I get to the games news I wanted to mention a few changes to the site over the weeks. I am testing some new site designs as the current one is a little cluttered, I want a cleaner layout so I am looking into two column themes like this one. I have a few more changes which will be implemented over the coming weeks so I will mention them in a future update. Now onto some games news.
Milkstone Studios posted a preview trailer for their forthcoming untitled racer which looks like a mix of Outrun and Burnout. Check it out via their homepage here or below.
A new preview video for Wheels of War: Carnage Academy has been posted by the developers. It is a racing game with GTA1 style viewpoint and graphics and is looking very good. Check it out below.
Give us this day our daily game reviewed Office Politics. XBLIG reviewed See the Light and Nuke Your Neighbor. Indie Flux reviewed Carcophony. PWNEM reviewed Herman. New reviews via Xbox Hornet: Pioneer, The Impossible Game and Molly the Were-Zompire.
The Christmas rush seems to have thankfully died down a little so it has given me some more time to work on clearing the backlog of reviews. A review for Globe Clicker should be online by tomorrow and Dual The Art of Combat review by the late weekend. I will try and get one more review done before Christmas but no guarantees!
Don’t forget you can enter our weekly competition to win a copy of City Rain which we recently reviewed, full details on how to enter can be found after the review here. And keep visiting as next week we will be giving away a code every day in the run up to Christmas!
XBLA Ratings have posted a trailer for Arkedo Series – 03 PIXEL! which is a platform game. The Arkedo series have been great so far and I expect this third title will keep the run of great games. Check out the video here.
Also from XBLA Ratings is a preview for the forthcoming 2D platform game Polyverse. Check out the preview here. And while you are over there check out their preview for TrickShot.
A new official homepage for the Alien Breed style top down shooter Dysnomia has been unveiled here. If you were disapointed with the recent XBLA remake of Alien Breed you should like the look of this one, I cant wait to check this one out!
Reviews from other indie game sites are Balloon Blocks and Johnny Platform Saves Xmas!.
And finally don’t forget to check out XboxHornets Video Vault for many trailers of indie games.
A couple of site news before I get on to previews of games and other snippets of news. The Indie Game Roundup will be tomorrow instead of today and Fridays one will now be on Sunday, I am starting to juggle everything around so for after Christmas I wont return to hundreds of new releases to trail impression!
We have a backlog of several games to review which we (me and CyberAxe) are currently working on. A review for City Rain should be online by tomorrow and Johnny Platform Saves Christmas later in the week, CyberAxe should have reviews for The Adhara War and Holiday Trivia soon as well. I hope to get a couple more reviews online before Christmas so apologies to developers who are still waiting, the recent flood of releases are keeping us very busy!
Now on to some games news. Team Mango posted a trailer for their forthcoming Alien Breed style shooter Dysnomia. I love these kind of games and Dysnomia is looking great. It will also support two player co-op which is good to hear. Check out the details on their homepage.
Green Light Projects have announced an update for their puzzle game Carcophony, new unlocks will be available including cars driving on the other side of the road. Check out the full details here.
Evolution Dream Studio mentioned that Pirate Mayhem and Runic Quest should be released on XBLIG around January. You can read the full details here.
A preview of the fortcoming ASCII quest has been posted here. ASCII Quest is a rogue like game in which you explore dungeons and fight enemies drawn with ASCII characters, this game has both redrawn graphics or you can use the original ASCII characters.
XBLA Ratings posted a preview of a forthcoming shooter called Shoot 1UP. It looks like a lot of fun and definitely a game to keep an eye on! Check out the trailer and details here.
Reviews on other websites are Dual: The Art of Combat, Holiday Trivia, Chris Unarmed, Arkedo Series – 01 JUMP!, Johnny Platform Saves XMAS.
Wasted Seconds posted a preview video on the forthcoming indie game Pilot Test. It is based on a javascript game where you control a shape and must avoid other bouncing shapes in a small play area. As a side note, I coded a version of the original game for the GP2X a year or two ago (see here) and its an addictive little game, hopefully Pilot Test is as well. Check out the video for Pilot Test here.
XBLA Ratings posted a preview of a forthcoming twin stick shooter called Abaddon. The visuals and gameplay look great and there are three game play modes to choose from as well as a RPG element and a Drop-In Multiplayer on Xbox Live and Local Multiplayer. You can read more as well as view the videos here.
Also from XBLA Ratings is a preview of another soon to be released indie game called Full Contact Racing. It is inspired from British Stock Car Racing or as I like to call it Banger Racing 
The trailers didn’t show much racing but instead shows some physics gameplay. It has not grabbed me but I will reserve judgement until I play the game. Full article can be read here.
Evolution Dream Studio posted a trailer for their next game Pirate Mayhem. As I thought last week it is a Cabal style arcade game in which you shoot the enemies that appear on screen. It is looking good so far and I cant wait to get my hooks on this, arrrr a pirate joke! Check out the video here.
Iron Star Media have a new game soon to be released on indie games. Ikaroids is a action packed twin stick shooter with a campaign and survival mode with up to two players. It looks interesting and hopefully has some good features to make it stand out from the many other twin stick shooters on indie games. Full details here.
Blacklab Games have posted a second trailer of their forthcoming shooter Star Hammer. The Star Hammer story will be released as a series of chapters, each containing around 15 missions. Visually it looks nice so hopefully the gameplay matches it. Full details can be found here.
Last but not least, Pino contacted us to let us know about his work in progress game Meet Your Nightmare. It is an arena style battle game in which you must fight waves of enemies. It is a work in progress game but it is looking good so far. Check out the video here.
Reviews on other sites are The Impossible Game, Aardvark and XMAS Taxi.
Chris Unarmed is a new Xbox 360 indie game currently in the final stages of development with a release date expected to be around the late November mark. The developers were kind enough to send me a preview copy of their game to play.
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