Thirteen indie games released in just two days, is it Christmas again? Here is the latest round up of releases and updates now with 10% extra image size free! Image thumbnails are now 15 pixels wider as the new design only has one column so there is more space to fill up.
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Bible Navigator X: HCSB is a e-book viewer for various books in the bible collection. The actual software is fairly good and has theme options with different backgrounds and text colour and size. Features include a search, skip to chapter and verse and bookmarks. If you need a bible or want one for your 360 give this a try. Bible Navigator X: HCSB costs 400 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here.
Canno-Blast is a arcade game played a little like the table top puck games. Up to four players, human or CPU, must defend their area and shoot the pucks into their opponents area to reduce their energy. The action is very fast paced and apparently there are upgrades to purchase and unlock to change the game. It is not a bad game, would definitely be more fun with some friends and then worth checking out. Canno-Blast costs 240 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here, a trailer can be found below.
Football League Simulator is an English football league simulator. I picked the best team ever Tottenham, any arguing I will ban you!, and set on my way to become the league champions. Presentation is done in a Sky Sports inspired way with news ticker and the tables on the sides. Unfortunately the actual game is a bit boring because all you can do is simulate some matches with text showing the scores and view the results and stats. A bit more depth to this game would have been great but you are better off watching BBC Sports live updates on a weekend for the same effect. Football League Simulator costs 80 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here.
Graffiti LIVE! is a drawing application that lets you create artwork and share them with others over Live. Anyone that knows me will confirm I can’t draw to save my life so my best efforts were a wonky smiley face 
What I did find great was you can replay saved and downloaded artwork and it is drawn in steps as the original artist drew it. It is a really good idea and it left me very envious that the artist made creating a drawing of a road with cars look very easy! If you like drawing or even just viewing artwork this looks to be great. Graffiti LIVE! costs 240 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here, a trailer below showing the replay drawing can be found below.
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House Of Cockroach is a 3D on the rails shooting game. You explore a house and are guided around rooms and must kill Cockroaches. Graphically the game looks very nice but the game does get boring by the end of the trial because the Cockroaches do nothing, they don’t kill you or reduce energy they just sit there waiting to be shot with infinite ammo guns. Some tweaks like loosing energy for missing cockroaches and guns that must be reloaded would have made things interesting but as it stands it is not very interesting. House Of Cockroach costs 240 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here.
Hypno Vol. 1 is a strategy game where you play the part of a hypnotist who must mind control people in the city and make them do things. I found the game a little confusing as to what to actually do but the game does look somewhat interesting and has a written storyline to go with it. Give it a try and see what you think. Hypno Vol. 1 costs 400 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here, a trailer can be found below.
KGB Episode One is a first person shooter where you play as an elite solder on a mission. I was expecting a ropey FPS game but actually this is much better than I thought. The graphics are impressive, there is a nice selection of weapons and the controls seem to work fine. My only criticism was the enemy placements were very predictable and a little too static so it was very easy to strafe and shoot. It is well worth checking out and you can find more information here and a trailer below.
Lotus – Stellar Conflict is a space based shooter containing a campaign mode with or without two player co-op or a skirmish mode for up to eight players over Live. The graphics a 3D and look fine, a spoken tutorial is given which helps with the game controls and is well presented. The missions looked to be pretty good of what I saw in the trial limit and if you like space based shooters you should enjoy this one. Lotus – Stellar Conflict costs 240 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here and a trailer below.
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Merry Inc. is a 3D board game that according to the description has a ‘strategic challenge and fun-learning of general knowledge’. The game kept crashing with a Code 4 error every time I tried to play it so I have no idea if the game is any good or not. You might have better luck than me. Merry Inc. costs 80 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here.
Musicus2 is a music based puzzle game. You must connect four colours of panels to make a rectangle and then attach to the place called the scorezone. I played the first one some months ago and was confused about what you had to do and I am still having the same problem. It does however look to be an interesting game so give it a try. Musicus2 costs 400 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here.
Physics Lab is a physics based sandbox game in which you can create your own contraptions with a variety of objects. This is not really a release you can get the feel for in the trial limit as you will likely need to view the video tutorials before creating anything. From what I watched it looks quite interesting and worth checking out. Physics Lab costs 240 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here.
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Synth Jam is a music creation application that is easy to use simply creating notes by filling in the squares for the instrument you want. There are a few of these types of applications but I think this is the first to feature support for up to four ‘players’ to join in and create some bangin choons. Worth a try if you are into these kind of applications. Synth Jam costs 400 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here.
You Can’t Win! is an arcade style game where you start by placing four moving blocks and then must repeat the same process to create a tower. If one or more of the blocks overlap the previous blocks they are removed and you continue playing until you run out of blocks. It is a simple game and fairly fun to play especially with the colourful graphics and music. There are some other modes but they were locked in the trial version. Might be good for a quick blast now and again, You Can’t Win! costs 80 :MSPoints: and more information can be found here.
Titles that have received either a software update or price change are Ultimate Arcade Chat Rooms, Flytrap, Mind’s Eye of Jupiter – 01, Powa Volley, DESTRUCTION TANK, Banana Split, RadRiverRun, A Bomb’s Way, Tobe’s Vertical Adventure and Swords & Monsters.
Trailers for new releases can be found below:
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