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Want to play a zombie MOBA? Or ZOMBA if you prefer, but that might sound too much like a fitness workout. Either way, Beta testing for Dead Island: Epidemic is due to start very soon, and it’s looking quite good. With pick-up-and play gameplay, nice visuals and over the top cartoony violence, it could be worth giving a go.

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Joylancer is a fast paced and fun platform game that revels in it’s monochrome retro glory.

Your Legendary Motor Knight is gifted with incredible power and superhuman dexterity, making him a very agile, formidable fighter and making Joylancer a very enjoyable slice of retro platform gaming.

It’s visual style is obviously reminiscent of early Gameboy games and is a great homage to classic platformers, with some modern day gameplay mechanics and no slowdown!

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Major League Wizardry is a great new trading card game that pits wizard against wizard in turn based warfare.

MLW has a fantastic hand drawn art style, with monster designs that are especially inventive and fun, adding a lot of character to the game. The game’s easily accessible to newcomers, but also has plenty of depth courtesy of the wide variety of monsters, spells and traps that are at your disposal. The game features a single player campaign, online multiplayer and asynchronous play modes, allowing you to you defeat your wizardly foes, collect and trade cards to help bolster your deck.

Major League Wizardry is fun and inventive trading card game that can make for some very entertaining battles. The Open Beta is available for Win, Mac and Android, with iOS coming later in the year. There are also plans to add a variety of great new features, including ranked matches, skins, combos, monster levelling and even physical cards so you can play the game in real life.

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Grey Phobia is Sin & Punishment style Run and Gun, Hack & Slash game with RPG and multiplayer mechanics, set in a very cool comic book style post apocalyptic world.

The game is viewed from behind the character, as you run into the screen shooting enemies, dodging bullets and battling bosses. It can be played in single-player Story mode or multi-player co-op, features a variety of upgrades and crafting mechanics.

It’s a great bit of run and gun arcade fun, with depth and plenty of style.

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Dimensia is a fun 2D platformer in which you can instantly flip through multiple dimensions in a select environment. The game has a nice retro aesthetic, the platforming is sound and the dimension flipping is a great mechanic, allowing for some pretty inventive level design.

Dimensia also features a great soundtrack, unlocks, multiplayer, a level editor, hidden easter eggs and in-jokes. It’s a fun retro platformer, with some great new ideas and a nice sense of humour.

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Paper Dream is a fun, fast paced, twitchy paper airplane game, created by the students of Lawrence Tech, where you require quick thinking and fast reflexes to traverse the levels while trying to rack up a high score.

Levels are cluttered with a variety of shcool themed obstructions to impede your progress and are generally pretty tricky, especially as your paper plane is remarkably fast. This fast gameplay and the ability to restart quickly makes for a very addictive game, with you constantly trying to pull of a perfect run, squeezing through extremely tight gaps and even fighting boss battles.

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The Mims: Beginning is a great new god game that really makes you are about your followers. The Mims are an inventive and peace-loving race who have ben shipwrecked and scattered across various floating islands. Your role is to help them rebuild their ship, so they can go home. You’ll do this by helping the Mims build and defend against dangerous wildlife using RTS elements protecting and using your God-like superpowers.

The Mims is a joy to play and really oozes character. The gameplay is shaping up really well, drawing favourable comparisons to Populous, but it’s the vibrant world, sense of humour, great characters and all-round playfulness of he game hat really draws you in. It fees like something that Nintendo could of made, in-fact It’s hard not to expect some Pikmin to pop up while you’re exploring your island!

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AR-K is a nice episodic point and click adventure where the community can participate in its development from the beginning, with feedback from players after each episode, shaping how the game evolves.

The game revolves around Alicia Van Volish, a former cop turned into a journalism student who is investigating a myterious golden sphere. The game features some inventive puzzles, great artwork, and a nice sense of humour. It’s also available in English or Spanish, and has already been Greenlit on Steam.

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Only If (Spotted by Indie Statik) is a great looking first person exploritive puzzle game that tasks you with escaping a large (and rather creepy) house that your character has woken up in after having a few to many drinks the night before.

It’s a short game (around 10 mins) created in an 8 day gamejam, that features some pretty inventive puzzles and a great atmosphere. A particular standout is the audio, specifically the voice acting of your captor/tormentor who talks over the radio and claims to know how you can escape. Needless to say he seems to want to have some fun with you first.

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GodSpace Galactic 2 (the sequel to 2013s original) is a God simulation/sandbox game, where you use your god-like powers to create your own solar system.

You can mess with asteroids, comets, planets, stars, and even black holes, using your many God powers to push, pull, create orbits, fire nukes, shoot lasers, resize objects, and much more. You can ever create life on planets, watching the lifeforms evolve into space faring civilizations, or just wipe out them out by throwing the planet into a Black hole.

There’s even online multiplayer, allowing you to team up and create a solar system together, or just go to war with each other.

Ultimately GG2 is about choices, you’re given the keys to the solar system and allowed to do whatever you like with it, you are a God after all!

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