A surprise announcement and massive game-changing news for musicians: developers Harmonix have just announced The Rock Band Network, a new initiative to let home users and indie bands create and… Read the rest of the article: Rock Band opens track creation/sales to home musicians, indie bands

Over at Offworld, we've just dug up what'll probably be the most mind-bending video of the week: the first look at Joe Larson's 'demake' of Valve's PC/Xbox 360 hit Portal,… Read the rest of the article: Video: Portal, re-made in ASCII

In her latest One More Go column, Margaret Robertson argues that Sega's long-underappreciated and entirely absurd Typing of the Dead (above) — the game which sees players destroying zombies by… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld: killing zombies softly, LucasArts Steamed, Devo meets Space Invaders

Today on Offworld we took an extensive look at Treasure World (above), the just-released DS game that turns the ubiquitous cloud of Wi-Fi signals around you into collectible treasures —… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld: war-driving for treasure, cloud gaming, Dylan in The Sims

As seems to be the case time and time again, indie devs have given us some of the best in surrealist/dreamscape gaming, and the latest — featured today on Offworld… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld: glum busting, retro Soviet arcades, domestic violence

As any new or vet iPhone owner will know, trying to wade through the App Store's overwhelming selection of games and apps is a daunting process, so we've whipped together… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld: the 15 games you need for your new iPhone

Over at Offworld, after Sony's marathon two hour E3 press conference, I've summed up the most important highlights which — surprisingly, after recent rampant leaks — did have some secrets… Read the rest of the article: Everything you need to know about Sony's E3 press conference

Here's the deal: Boing Boing has come into possession of some wicked footage of an anonymous Atari Computer Camp excursion that has everything you could ever want from grainy stock… Read the rest of the article: Do you make chiptunes? Help us score these retro-videos.

Over at Offworld we've got news that'd make any office lackey proud: ready to dump his mainstream programming job and take the indie game dev world by storm, Rom Check… Read the rest of the article: Indie game dev quits mainstream job via Super Mario

Most excitingly today on Offworld, area/code's iPhone puzzler Drop7 — still one of the platform's absolute best, and one of the very few that (four months later) I'm still playing… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld

Today on Offworld, we played Scarygirl, the just-released new platformer game based on illustrator and designer toy maker Nathan J's exquisitely designed world and characters, which, pleasantly enough, turned out… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld

Today on Offworld we got the official announcement of Game Over/Continue? (above) — Giant Robot and Attract Mode's previously mentioned upcoming art exhibit, and the first 'artxgame' collaboration that promises… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld

Recently on Offworld, Ragdoll Metaphysics columnist Jim Rossignol officially declared 2009 the year of the real-time strategy genre, French guerrilla artist Space Invader was caught on film, Dr. Mario talked… Read the rest of the article: Recently on Offworld

A quick heads up: over at Offworld we've got the first look at the just-launched official T-shirts for Noby Noby Boy, the also-just-launched new PS3 game by Keita 'Katamari Damacy'… Read the rest of the article: Panic's new Noby Noby Boy T-shirts

Today on Offworld, Jim Rossignol came through with his regular Ragdoll Metaphysics column and, just as I'd hoped, gave the clearest explanation of the recent Goonswarm/Band of Brothers corporate dissolution… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld

Today on Offworld, we didn't see much better than this: 2D Boy co-founder and World of Goo maker Kyle Gabler (right) channeling… Tyra Banks? and giving his top 7 tips… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld

I tried hard to pick a favorite (the sheep-skinned wolf? the colorblind test crossbones?), but each one tells too good a story: illustrator Thomas Fuchs and designer Felix Sockwell have… Read the rest of the article: Thomas Fuchs and Felix Sockwell's 'Deconstructing Dumbo'

Today Offworld got an exclusive sneak peek at the awesomely retro-futurist super HYPERCUBE, a game by Montreal art collective Kokoromi and developer Polytron that uses both red/blue anaglyph glasses and… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld

Following our successful lift off, today on Offworld we saw the community start to extend the life of 2D Boy's brilliant indie puzzler World of Goo, and saw reason to… Read the rest of the article: Today on Offworld