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Air Brawl is a fun fast paced aircraft combat game with responsive controls and agile aircraft, with a focus on combat and racing through the skies and streets of well crafted levels that reward risk and skilful flying.

Even in these early stages of development, the game looks wonderful and the aircraft handle perfectly, with tight and responsive flight controls that allow your plane to fly through the smallest of gaps. Gameplay is fast paced and fun, with great level design that rewards low flying – especially when trying to shake off an opponent that’s attempting to blow you out of the skies with some of the games inventive weaponry.

This weekends playtest is available now and finishes on midnight on Sunday (06/15/14), focusing on the Capture the Flag mode, with a selection of 3 planes with 4 weapons on the Prague 2050 map.

This playtest is not under any NDA, and you’re encouraged to spread the word about the game and make videos, just bear in mind it is still very early in development, so obviously it’s not feature complete yet (but what is there is exceptional fun.)

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Throughout it’s development, Dirty Bomb has changed names from Dirty Bomb to Extraction and now back to Dirty Bomb again. Hopefully they’re not as indecisive about the rest of the development process, but we’re happy they’ve gone back to Dirty Bomb – it sounds a bit less generic than Extraction.

It’s a highly competitive PC first person shooter from Splash Damage, the developer of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Brink and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. In it you can Snipe, attack, cover, or heal throughout the streets of London with a wide range of mercenaries, each big on personality and long on abilities. It’s a good looking game, probably best to sign-up quickly before they change the name again though!

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Death to Spies 3 is a third person stealth game that’s the third instalment of the popular ’Death to Spies’ series, taking place in both the World War II and the Cold War era. You play as a Russian captain named Semyon Strogov (it’s a rather unfortunate first name) who has the necessary skills to accomplish dangerous, almost suicidal missions.

The game feels like an old school stealth game with a James Bond vibe to it and a range of Hitman-style weaponry. The stealth mechanics are solid, you have a garrotte to choke your enemies and a silenced pistol to take out unreachable targets, and you can also drag bodies out of sight to not alarm other enemies.

It’s shaping up to be a great stealth game, with stealthy Hitman-style gameplay in a cold war seting, and some nicely polished visuals.

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Abomination Tower is a hardcore Super Meat Boy-style platformer with procedurally generated levels that are full of nasty ways die.

You play as a mad scientists creation trapped in a tower where you must ascend the tower to escape (lots of wall jumping). You can unlock heads along the way by collecting eyeballs (having 5 eyeballs when you finish the level will unlock the first head in the game, but the only one available in this demo). These heads provide power ups or special abilities to help you get through the level and are equipable at the start of each level.

You can play with keyboard controls, but you’ll stand a far better chance if you use an Xbox 360 controller. The Alpha demo features just the one tile set, but thanks to the procedural generation, you won’t climb the same tower more than once. It’s a fun game, clearly influenced by Super Meat Boy - challenging, bloody and an irreverand sense of humor. The procedural generation is particularly exciting, but the special heads are also a great touch, and will at least give you a fighting chance as you make your way through this tower of abomination.

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Wooden Floor is a creepy first person horror game full of visual trickery, where whole rooms can change while you’re not looking.

There are no full on jump scares (at least in the demo), instead the game builds a tense and eerie atmosphere where you constantly question what’s real. Close a door and open it again, and it may reveal a totally different room or even the same room flipped upside down. The only thing that is constant is the wooden floor under your feet.

It’s an interesting take on the horror genre, where you question everything, including your sanity. In a lot of ways it feels like a bad dream – but in a good way.

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Splasher is a great indie platformer that plays like a cross between Super Meat Boy, Super Mario Sunshine and some of the painty bits from Portal.

You control a nimble little Splasher who uses special paints to aid his progress through levels filled with various obstacles, enemies and hazards. As with any platformer, good platforming mechanics are vital. Thankfully your little Splasher is a joy to control, well animated and capable of precision platforming.

Your Splashers best trick is his ability to fire various different paints, all with their own unique properties. These paints can be used for a variety of uses, including powering mechanisms, sticking you to walls and roofs, and bouncing you high in the air. They allow for some inventive level design that will test your problem solving skills as well as your reflexes.

Even in it’s prototype form, Splasher plays VERY well, the platforming controls are tight, the paint powers are used very cleverly and it’s great fun to play. Splashtastic.

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In Don’t Shoot Yourself you are your own worst enemy, literally! It’s a shoot-em-up where the only enemy is yourself – automatically shooting bullets behind you as you move around the enclosed levels.

These bullets will then bounce around the levels continuously until you complete the level or die (which is more probable). To complete a level you have to fire 100 bullets, which then triggers a magic bullet that smashes the levels walls and saves you from yourself. Different walls reflect your bullets in different ways and 100 bullets are pretty hard to dodge, so you must use careful planning, strategy and quick reflexes to beat the game.

It’s a great game, with a nice minimalistic art style and fast paced gameplay that offers a whole new take on bullet hell. In Don’t Shoot Yourself there are 100 bullets with your name on them – because you fired them!

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FEAR Online, the team focused horror-themed FPS staring everyones favourite psychopathic psionic child, is now entering Beta.

The Beta will feature a whole bunch of redesigns, upgrades and improvements from the Alpha builds, and looks like it’s ramping up the terror in the process. FEAR Online boasts a co-operative campaign that takes place within the same timeframe as FEAR 2: Project Origin, fast-paced multiplayer versus modes, plenty of blood and gore, and the ability to play as the Soul King - a ghost with limitless potential.

The Beta begins on May the 26th, so if you want to take on Alma again, you’d better sign up soon. If it gets too scary, at least you’ll have some friends online who can hold your hand!

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Wingsuitflyer is a thrilling wingsuit flying sim that lets you glide/fall at breakneck speeds down mountainsides, skimming past obstacles and generally just having an awesome time (whilst trying not to smash into a ridge).

The feeling you get as you hurtle down the mountainside is wonderful, you’re free to choose your own route, with points and multipliers awarded for skimming as close to the ground as you dare. The Alpha is available through registering with the becoming.at website, and the finished version will feature improved graphics, multiplayer, helicopters, microlights, fixed wing aircraft, thermals, sailplanes and hang gliders.

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