Playing With Magic by John Deprice
Do you like magic, spells and mana? Find out what indie games with magical theme stand out for their originality and unusual plots. Dungeon Scroll 2.0 (Robinson Technologies) At first glance, Dungeon Scroll looks like a first-person dungeon crawl in the style of the old Dungeons & Dragons PC RPGs. ... If you spend more than five seconds with the game, though, you'll realize that all the fantasy trappings are just window dressing for a fiendishly difficult and addictive word puzzle game. ... Bricks Of Camelot (Arcade Lab) Join the epic adventures of Camelot in this action packed brick...

When Games Simulate Life - Indie Sim Games Overview. by John Deprice
Like simulators? There are hundreds of independent game developers who developer excellent and very unique games you should really know about. Here are some of the picks. Coffee Tycoon (Jamopolis) Coffee Tycoon gives sim games a jolt of caffeine. It's packed with awesome graphics, tons of... Betty's Beer Bar Betty's Beer Bar is a fast paced and addictive arcade game. ... Playing through the game, one of your main goals is to trade goods with the various planets that you visit. ... You can also play in several different modes - including Free Play, Time Challenge and Story Mode, complete...

PC Game Review: 'Telltale Texas Hold 'Em' by Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Poker Ladies. The sinuous ladies, that haunted my early youth. A sexy coin-op money-sink, that forced me to (illegally, according to my age at the time) enter seedy arcades in order to see badly-drawn manga-styled nude ladies doing naughty stuff. I did learn to play the American 52-card version... It is apparently a poker game. ... It was actually the first game released by the (hopefully) adventure maestros of Telltale, and has been around for quite some time. ... Even though Telltale Texas Hold’em does play a decent and varied poker game, its great appeal is the atmosphere and the...