This article is a port and update from my previous Alt+Games site . I'll post these in our new site once in a while as I return to the games I've covered earlier.

A review of IGF07 finalist: Gamma Bros offers tight-grip 8-bit-neoretro-shoot' em up action in your web browser.

Gamma Bros is a Flash based web shoot 'em up game developed by Pixeljam Games. The game was one of the finalists on this years Independent Game Festival's Web-based Games series, and was edged out by Samorost 2, which won the series.

The game operates similarly than other vertically or horizontally scrolling shooters, with one crucial exception: besides moving his/her starship on all four directions (with the arrow keys) the player can also shoot in each direction (with the a, s, d and w keys). The enemy waves come from every direction and the action is twice as hectic compared with traditional shoot 'em ups. An excellent innovation to the 2-D shmup genre and it works really well in practice too.

This article is a port and update from my previous Alt+Games site . I'll post these in our new site once in a while as I return to the games I've covered earlier. Depths of Peril seems to be doing well and the game has been ported to Mac since my last article about it so I'll republish the original text with only minor updates. 

Depths of Peril is a single player computer rpg game for Windows and Mac machines developed by Soldak Entertainment. The players takes on the role of a clan chief and tries to war and intrique his way to be the sole leader of the city Jorvik. Depths of Peril is an interesting mixture of an isometric action role-playing game in the Diablo vein and inter-clan diplomacy reminiscent of the Civilization franchise. The game is available for both Windows and Mac. There's a free demo, the full game costs $19.99 and there's 30 days' money back quarantee.

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In my previous post we quickly took a glance to Evochron Renegades, a space combat, trading and exploration game in the vein of Elite and such. Evochron (and other Starwraith-series games are made by Shawn Bower, who kindly gave a bit of time to answer few questions through email.

  Four months ago I wrote about the CRPG project Esenthel in the old Alt+Games blog. Today I went to check out what has happened in the project since that time. It seems that the team has been very busy during last Autumn and around the holidays: They've released new versions of their demo as well as the game engine, and added a lot of stuff to both. I'm going to check out the newest game demo (as well as try out the included editor) and I hope you do too. In the meanwhile, as a part of the archiving project, here's the old article I wrote on Esenthel on October 2007. You can download them from the game's website .

Esenthel is an ongoing project to create a 3D computer role-playing game in the vein of the Elder Scrolls series (Morrowind, Oblivion). The game is being developed by an independent group of developers and game enthusiasts. While the development is still on-going (and I suspect that the final product won't be released tomorrow) the group has released the newest (at the time of the original article) demo of the game in the beginning of October. The demo consists of a short dungeon crawl and is essentially a concept and technology demostration.