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Knytt Underground Video Review

Knytt-Underground-featureimage 14 Jan

Why? Why do so many absolutely fantastic indie titles go largely unnoticed by the gaming community? Even when available on multiple platforms it seems the curse of low budget titles is just too powerful. Metroidvania puzzle-platformer Knytt Underground, brainchild of Swedish developer Nicklas Nygren and his development studio Nifflas’ Games, is one of these hidden […]

Metroid-vania Game Coming from Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw

13 Jan

While Ben Croshaw has achieved an impressive level of internet fame with his breathless review/rants on The Escapist’s “Zero Punctuation”, his longer career as a freelance game designer has remained somewhat in shadow. Building a background of mostly straight-forward adventure titles, Croshaw is going for a larger release with his next effort: the Metroid-vania platformer […]