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This Week's Waste of Time

I've got a gift idea for you. How about a recommendation for a free browser game? Recommend these playable nominees for the Independent Games Festival and the giftee will be on the cutting edge of gaming. And what better present is there? And this is only part 4 of 5, so it's a gift that keeps on giving. At least until next week.

3:51PM Fri. Dec. 3, 2010, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

Video Game Gift Guide

Downloadable video games get short shrift during the holidays. Sure, there's cyber Monday, but it's tough to be proud of gift that can't be wrapped. If you know very little about your little cousin other than his or her penchant for electronic entertainment, perhaps a gift card is in order. Here's a roundup of notable games that you can't buy in stores.

6:51PM Thu. Dec. 2, 2010, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

This Week's Waste of Time

After a week's vacation I'm back with part 3 of what just might turn into a five-part series covering all the playable browser video games submitted to the Independent Games Festival. Get ready for letters 'M' through 'P.' See part 2 for more games and part 1 for even more games and a description of the parameters of what is included here.

5:24PM Thu. Nov. 18, 2010, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Taylor Swift Muzingo

Upstairs at Caroline

Everybody Scream! Ravencraft’s Vault of Horror at Mister Tramps Sport Pub, 8565 Research Blvd.

Bride of Chucky
at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Battle Chasers and Darksiders

In the late '90s, Joe Madureira was one of the hottest comic artists on the planet. Seven years ago, he left the industry and moved to Austin to co-found Vigil Games, the creators of Darksiders. The man known as Joe Mad appears today at Wizard World Austin, but we chatted him earlier about how he made the transition from print to electronic publishing.

10:25AM Sat. Nov. 13, 2010, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

This Week's Waste of Time

If you're not finished playing last week's featured Independent Games Festival entries, too bad. Because the fun (and/or learning, exploring, interacting) keeps coming with seven more games that range from bitterly disappointing to mind-bendingly innovative and Jackass inspired ridiculousness. See the full list of 391 entries here.

4:23PM Thu. Nov. 4, 2010, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

This Week's Waste of Time

And so it begins. Time for the yearly trek through the roughly 400 video-game entries to the Independent Games Festival. This year's fest puts local indie-gaming overlord Brandon Boyer at the helm even though the event itself takes place in San Francisco. Going through all these games is going to take a while so we let's get started.

6:15PM Thu. Oct. 28, 2010, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

This Week's Waste of Time

Leap 4 Blue sounds like an inspirational documentary on skydiving (honestly, Point Break covered that ground), but it's in fact an interesting take on a standard platforming game from designer Noel Berry. The twist? You create the platforms that you then jump to. Sounds like a gamer's dream come true but with great power comes great responsibility.

2:20PM Thu. Oct. 21, 2010, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

This Week's Waste of Time

There's a reason I decided not to call this column "This Week's Cheapskate Video Game" or "Your Weekly Video Game Option That Doesn't Cost Any Money." Well, there's two reasons. "This Week's Waste of Time" has the branded ring of something eternally cool (at least in my mind), and the things I cover aren't necessarily games. Case in point, the works of AGJ.

4:24PM Thu. Oct. 14, 2010, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

This Week's Waste of Time

Looking at the 130 playable games on Increpare's website it's difficult to fathom that Stephen Lavelle has a day job. Maybe cutting-edge game designers get a stipend in the UK (God knows how they do things over there). Regardless of how his creations get funded, they generally sit somewhere on the fun/interesting/confounding continuum.

2:23PM Thu. Oct. 7, 2010, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

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