Category Archives: Indie

PAX East Boston Indie Showcase XTRA: ‘Not Without You’

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Cortney Zamm

One of my goals this year for PAX East was to play every single game featured in the Boston Indie Showcase, a hand-picked collection of excellent mobile games created by independent developers. After checking out all the other games featured … Continue reading →

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Panels You Should Check Out at PAX East 2012

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Cortney Zamm

There’s a lot at PAX East, which takes place this upcoming weekend, to be excited for- the show floor will be jam packed with tons of exciting games, the concerts at night will be rockin’, and there’s endless free play … Continue reading →

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PAX East Boston Indie Showcase Preview: Lawnmower Challenge

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Cortney Zamm

Lawnmower Challenge, another selection for this year’s Boston Indie Showcase at PAX East, has done something interesting: it’s taken a chore that most consider a sweaty nuisance, and turned it into a mind-bending puzzle game. In Lawnmower Challenge, your quest … Continue reading →

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PAX East Boston Indie Showcase Preview: Bean’s Quest

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Cortney Zamm

  Imagine being turned into a jumping bean by an evil wizard, and on top of all that having your girlfriend kidnapped. Worst day ever, right? That’s what our hero, Emilio, is faced with in Bean’s Quest, a bouncing 16-bit … Continue reading →

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PAX East Boston Indie Showcase Preview: Girls Like Robots

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Cortney Zamm

The full version of little logic puzzler Girls Like Robots is not released quite yet, but I got a chance to check it out before it hits the show floor at PAX East this weekend. The gameplay of Girls Like … Continue reading →

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Monday Picks: Emilio Estevez in 1984’s ‘Repo Man’

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Douglas Barnett

Repo Man (1984), not to be confused with the movie about two guys who go around repossessing people’s internal organs when they miss a payment, is a Punk Rock classic starring Emilio Estevez as a clean cut kid in the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: ‘Jeff, Who Lives at Home’

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Grace Suh

Jeff is a jobless 30-year-old slacker man-child who does indeed live in the basement of his mother’s house. He is an expert at marijuana smoke rings, daytime television and pickup basketball but whines and protests when asked to perform a … Continue reading →

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PAX East Boston Indie Showcase Preview: ‘Spelltower’

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Cortney Zamm

This year’s Boston Indie Showcase, the impressive list of independent games featured at PAX East in April, is a bit different than in years past- because the games are all mobile based, we’ll all be able to play most of them before the show … Continue reading →

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