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Powargrid is a fun turn based strategy game that focuses on power supply and disruption. You build out from your power station, building a powergrid, then add attack towers to attack and destroy the enemies structures.

In all cases power is key, you need to protect your power stations, while trying to reach across the map and destroy the enemies. As well as transporting energy, power lines come in handy for blocking build paths, while cannons and towers are great for attacking enemy structures. It’s great fun to play and makes for some very strategic battles.

Powargrid also features a campaign mode with a nice sense of humour, online or hotseat multiplayer and skirmish battles against computer opponents.

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First Person Flappy Bird is exactly what the title suggests. You take control of your flappy bird and guide it through gaps in Mario-esque pipes in glorious 3D. There are a couple of fundamental differences though, at the moment the pipe layout isn’t randomly generated and game is ridiculously hard, with the dev himself only managing a high-score of 4 (ours was 3).

While we’d like to see the difficulty toned down a bit, the game still manages to pull off the Flappy Birds trick of taking up far more of your time than it really deserves. Also, if you get fed up of banging into things, repeatedly tap the space bar at the start and you’ll soar high above those pesky pipes!

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Doom Warrior is a great looking arena combat game that pits you in 1 on 1 battles against an array of vicious opponents, gargantuan bosses and online opponents. As you progress you’ll gain riches, power and glory, with randomised loot drops and a levelling system that has no limit to how powerful you can become.

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Standpoint is a first-person puzzle-platformer, where you can manipulate the orientation of your surroundings to allow you to traverse levels. It’s an inventive mechanic, when combined with the striking visual style and accompanying narrator, it comes across as a great mixture of VVVVVV and Portal.

Standpoint is shaping up to be a very enjoyable and intelligent first person puzzler, the Beta Demo includes the prologue for the full game.

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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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Cashtronauts is a fast-paced, retro arcade-style game for 1 to 4 players. It’s not just your average shooter, players can choose their own play style, focusing on mining, pirate hunting or just pillaging and looting.

You can play through a campaign in single player or co-op, trying to make it as far across the galaxy as you can before you die. Warping from system to system, scrounging together enough cash to pay your way through the next warp gate before your pursuers catch up to you.

There’s also a fun skimirsh mode, a competitive game mode where the goal is to make as much cash as possible within three rounds. That cash can also be used to buy powerups and upgrades in the Black Hole Market. Prices fluctuate based on player action, dynamically balancing the game.

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