Cool, cute HTML5 canvas MMORPG, developed by Mozilla as a demo of new web tech. Very easy game tho, got 100% in one sitting.

35-minute video conversation between adventure game legends Ron Gilbert & Tim Schafer on what makes an adventure game, what makes them good, the (percieved?) "death" of adventure games, and the new one that they're going to make (Double Fine Adventure). Wonderful video, particularly if, like me, you grew up playing their games.

Adorable short flash game by axcho and knivel.

Portfolio site of Paul Veer, freelance illustrator & animator from the Netherlands. He's done a bunch of work with Vlambeer.

Writer artist, teacher, and game designer operating out of Copenhagen. Creator of the flash game adaptation of "The Artist is Present" and "Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment".

Quick indie flash game about royalty, privilege, royal privilege, and domestic violence. Made by noonat for a Mini Ludum Dare themed around domestic violence.

"A Sensory Deprivation Video Game by Robin Arnott"

"Deep Sea is a game about being vulnerable.

"In this audio-only game, players don a mask that obscures their vision and takes over their hearing, plunging them into a world of blackness occupied only by the sound of their own breathing and the rumbles made by unseen terrors.

"Survival means the careful tracking of a liquid constellation of alien sounds, requiring the player to focus intently to the point of suppressing their own breathing, further reinforcing the sensation of claustrophic isolation. The player aims, fires their weapon and hopes to hear the creature cry out in pain, but more often than not the sound they hear is their shot disappearing uselessly into the void.

"The sense of being surrounded by invisible dangers is reinforced by the reality of playing the game in a public space, with the player knowing that all around are people they can neither hear nor see. At the same time spectators can watch the gyrations of the player’s body and hear their voice but have no access to the world the player is experiencing, and so remain helpless to rescue the player from their watery fate."

Requires a hellish gasmask to play, so unfortunately we have to settle for reaction videos for now.

Alpha version of a solid minimal tower-defense game from Vlambeer.

Anna Anthropy's custom t-shirt store, on Skreened.

Very political Italian Flash game devs.

Very fun endless run-and-gun arcade-style indie game from Dutch developers Vlambeer http://www.vlambeer.com/. Tight, fun gameplay, solid pixel art, and sweet tunes.

From the site: "Super Crate Box is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can. Prepare for an arcade delight with interesting, refreshing game mechanics, cracking retro art and a terribly hip chiptune soundtrack."

An addictive/frustrating game where you click numbers in a grid in order as fast as you can. It's quite simple, but you learn a lot about your own perception playing it.

The Witness is an upcoming exploration-puzzle game that takes place on an uninhabited island a la Myst, being developed by Jonathan Blow (creator of Braid) & co. This is the development blog.

Just glad to see that I'm not the only person who finds "gamification" repulsive! This is a short piece, but it touches upon Harry Frankfurt's conception of "bullshit", which sounds like it's worth looking into.

A DRM-free pay-what-you-want, Windows/Mac game built in Unity about running and jumping, "exploring and traveling flawlessly through the environment". It's a beautiful game of old-school wireframe graphics, precise jumps and simple controls. Kinda feels like what Canabalt 3D would be.

Adam Atomic Saltsman looks at what game mechanics say about our (largely FPS) AAA-game protagonists: they are clumsy, sociopathic marksmen who just might deserve a trial at the Hague.

A short article by Adam "Atomic" Saltsman on why his company Semi Secret Software put Canabalt on Apple's App Store for $2.99 instead of $0.99.

The takeaway: pricing your game at $0.99 means you're trying to shoot the moon. You have to do it to get your game in the top 10, but if you don't make it to the top 10, your $0.99 game won't make nearly enough money.

A game in which you explore "the elegant art of feminine conflict" -- it's a game about women slapping each other across the face in a battle for household supremacy, by Nigoro.

A helpful archive of AS3 Flash game development tips and tutorials from Richard Davey (Photon Storm), generally using Flixel.

A series of long, deep-dive articles in which the author, Pitchfork, plays through every Final Fantasy game from I to XIII in chronological order. Pitchfork grew up playing Final Fantasy starting with I, so he's intimately familiar with the series and its development, and does a great job of describing how the series' gameplay, storytelling, and business practices evolved over the years. It starts out celebratory and nostalgic, a mood which holds up through the "old school" FF games (I-V) and carries through to what he sees as the apex of the series, the "transitional" period consisting of VI and VII (and to a lesser extent, VIII). Then it starts going downhill. It's called "The Rise and Fall..." for a reason!

Pitchfork avoids falling into the rabid-fan trap and does a great job of keeping a level head throughout, judging each game's strengths and weaknesses quite fairly. One of the most valuable aspects of the series is how he conveys the impact each game had on the American gamer/market when it came out. As the "new school" articles progress, however, he becomes gradually more and more disillusioned with the games, and by the time he gets to XIII...well, it gets pretty depressing :(

Markus "Notch" Persson from Mojang (Minecraft) and Todd Howard from Bethesda (The Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3) sit down and have a chat at E3, on camera. A nice meeting of the minds.

Home of Jasper Byrne, indie flash game dev & creator of Soul Brother and Lone Survivor.

Online game development platform from Strongman Games. Promises visual programming, asynchronous collaboration, and a bunch of other neat stuff.

Indie game dev Droqen's site.

Online, extended port of sfxr.

Small game company with a neat dev blog.

Blog of indie game dev Christine Love, creator of "Digital: A Love Story" and "Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story"

A small two person (Miguel Sternberg and Andrew Pilkiw) indie games studio in Toronto Canada. Makers of Guerrilla Gardening & They Bleed Pixels. A bunch of games (Night of the Cephalopods, Cephalopods Co-op Cottage Defence, and The Night Balloonists) are available as free downloads!

An upcoming game from indie devs Hitbox: crazy platforming, sweeping up dust, and beautiful animation. Built in Game Maker. Video and demo available.

Elude is a game that "aims to raise awareness for depression", modelling stages of depression metaphorically as movement through a forest. Quite harrowing, actually, if you stick with it.

Built by the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab with Flash and the Flixel framework.

"A persistent browser-based game, or PBBG, is a computer game that satisfies the following two criteria: 1. It is browser-based. The game is played over the Internet using only a web browser. 2. It is persistent. Progress in the game is achieved over multiple playing sessions.

PBBGs merge the depth and longevity of an application-based game with the accessibility and portability of a browser-based game. PBBG can be spoken as pee-bee for brevity."

A Dvorak deck based on Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.

Awesome collection of pixelart resources!! "Here is a collection of various links that will probably come in handy from time to time."

Very nice pixel art & low-poly/high-poly 3D, very clean stuff.

A beautiful, painterly little game by David Shute (lackofbanjos.com).

Very slick flash space trading / commodity game, free with a one-time premium gate, like Capt. Forever.

"Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose. You earn points for clustering together blocks of the same color on the highway, and compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs."

"Run your Windows applications on Linux easily!"

Blog/site of Jonathan Lavigne, a Montreal QC game developer.

"The largest source of screenshot maps on the Internet, with thousands of maps of your favourite video games!"

Dev blog of David Shute, indie game designer & creator of Small Worlds.

Amazing short game by David Shute. Excellent storytelling through level design, and great pixel art. Genuinely haunting.

Maps from NES games

"A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988." A wonderful, v. sweet short indie game.

Terry Cavanagh, indie game designer!

"Guide the spaceman through the castle and defeat the wizard." Simple, exemplary game design.

Game by Adam Atomic

"La-Mulana is a freeware free-roaming platformer game designed to look, sound, and play like a classic MSX game. It´s heavily influenced by the classic Konami MSX game "The Maze of Galious" and anyone who has played that title will probably recognize the similarities very quickly. You play the whip-wielding Indiana Jones-esque archaeologist Lemeza Kosugi as he investigates the ancient ruins of La-Mulana in an attempt to find its treasure and one-up his father, who is trying to get the same treasure as well."

Translated into English by Aeon Genesis.

"a list of PC Games and what protection they have"

"Home of abandonware DOS games"

Great pixel art, interesting design.

Creators of flOw, Cloud, and Flower.

"Sadly no one ever tells you that you can open the repair screen in Pip-Boy by highlighting an item and pressing R. This is mentioned in the manual booklet but not in the game itself. This is problematic, since no one ever reads the manuals anymore. I mean, this game has like an hour long, un-skipable tutorial section. You’d think that reading the 15 page manual wouldn’t be necessary after that. Sadly it is.

Same goes for holstering your weapon. No one ever tells you that you accomplish it by pressing and holding the reload button. Manual mentions this off-hand when it talks about yielding but if you gloss over that section, you will never know.

Finally, the flashlight which is activated by holding down the Pip-Boy key. It is never mentioned in the manual, never even alluded to in the game and not listed in the key-binding menu. It is a genuine hidden feature. Go figure."

Auntie Pixelante's list of recommended Knytt Stories.

A patching tool to make Game Maker 6.0/6.1 games work under Vista.

Auntie Pixelante on the La La Land series of abstract games, with a download link.

Travis Boisvenue interviews game developers.

A video-game inspired webcomic that seems to have been made out of resentment for video-game inspired webcomics. By Tom McHenry.

How to use clrmame pro

A tumblelog celebrating the aesthetic of pixels, whether from games, demos, original artwork, or anything else.

A loose guide to learning game development, by Eskil Steenberg.

Home of the Quel Solaar 3D engine and LOVE, which looks to be a totally insane mmo, all created by Eskil Steenberg.

Jason Rohrer's profile and articles on gaming for The Escapist.

Esquire's profile of Jason Rohrer, creator of Passage and numerous other contemplative games.

Awesome flash game in which you have to defeat all of your past selves each round

anna anthropy is a freelance scratchware game creator and critic and an all-purpose pervert.

Creator of Passage and other games, available free.

By Crisper: how the virtual ISK from the Iceland-based space MMO EVE Online became Iceland's only claim to a stable currency as the "real" ISK crashed and burned.

A free, easy-to-use multi-platform game engine (or library)! Hey!

The home of minimal games "Within a Deep Forest", "Knytt", and "Knytt Stories".

Creator of Crayon Physics Deluxe

an indie video game by Procedural Arts involving storytelling with AI

Award-winning stark post-apocalyptic platformer

A fan/resource site for the great indie game Cave Story by Pixel

"Quirky little games for your edification": Freeware games for Windows and Linux

A python bridge for the Popcap game framework, so making games won't make you want to kill yourself.

Home of Noitu Love 1 & 2

An article by Stewart Brand from the 7 December 1972 issue of Rolling Stone about the hacking scene and old-school video games. It reads more like notes for an article than a proper article but it is incredibly prescient in places...notably, he extrapolates from the then-2-year-old ARPA Net the downfall/transformation of the newspaper and music industries. Also, this article is apparently the first known use of the term "on-line" in a publication, according to the OED.