Coming to an arcade near you, the Star Wars Battle Pod looks to be a great experience. Kotaku got to sit down and play with the Battle Pod and you can see the video above where they head into the Death Star trenches in a pretty epic dogfight with Imperial forces. This is the first Star Wars arcade cabinet in quite some time and I can't wait to check it out in person.

Shovel Knight was finally ported to Linux on Steam and as such I downloaded to check it out. I found absolutely no issues running the game and had fun coming back to this platforming shoveler. I expect many more content updates from Yacht Club Games as they decided to release the main game on Windows and then bring the extra Kickstarter game rewards in subsequent updates. If you are looking for an amazing retro platforming experience with shoveling, you should get this game.

Funny startup concept parody I found well worth sharing.

http://www.introducingcarrot.com/

I know. It's been a dream gamers have had for quite some time. To be able to sit down and watch all the Gameboy start screens in one go has been the "holy grail" of many gamers. Our wait is over as YouTube sensation NicksplosionFX has cut up all the Gameboy start screens and edited them down to a little under three hours.

If you haven't picked up Dragon Age: Origins yet, this is your chance to get it right now from EA for free on Origin. Dragon Age: Origin was BioWare's spiritual successor to Neverwinter Nights and features some really excellent storytelling.

If you are looking for an epic RPG that will keep you entertained for hours, you should get this.

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/free-games/on-the-house

I spent this last Saturday at the Eugene IndieGameCon doing a split Cheerful Ghost and Starship Rubicon booth. Since Starship Rubicon is the first game Cheerful Ghost is publishing it makes sense to show the game at a booth together and this was the first time we did it. It's one thing having a table at an event for a video game community but it's something very different to show off a game. I was also really excited to see people responding well to the build of the game we had to show. After the first few people ran into a steep difficulty wall, Wick balanced the game and everyone that came afterward had a bit easier go of things. Some people did very well, some people died quickly but nearly all the people that played it had fun.

Wick and I have boothed at a lot of Portland events and really enjoy doing it even if each event doesn't get a huge turn out. I wasn't sure what kind of audience to expect as IndieGameCon was in Eugene Oregon and I am not too familiar with the video game scene there. That said, the event was packed all day long with people very excited to play all manner of games shown. I had to get out of the way as the crowd around the game was too thick for me to be as close to the table as I wanted to be. If you are into the Indie Game scene in Oregon, IndieGameCon should be on your list as one of the events you need to be part of and I want to thank Ted Brown for letting us be part of it.

Later that evening Wick and I headed to the after party at a local club called the Shoryuken League. It's a retro arcade bar that has a few cool arcade games. Wick and I started playing a few fighting games but the highlight game of the evening, for me, was Duck Hunt. I am happy to admit, I spent a lot of time playing Duck Hunt as a kid and specifically the clay shooting portion of the game. I finished the night with a high score of 566,500 which isn't anything to be ashamed of and by the time I left wasn't surpassed. I went over to the Twin Galaxies high score page for Duck Hunt and whereas the high score is for two ducks mode, if I have more time and will I might try and get in on that action.

I also want to give a special shoutout to one of my friends Nic Biondi and his game Hard Lander. Nic is still adding awesome stuff to Hard Lander and each time he shows it the people that play it have more and more fun. Hard Lander is a physics based multiplayer space ship game that is absolutely off the hook crazy fun in multiplayer with friends. Some people had so much fun they camped out playing the game for hours and screamed in excitement when something crazy happened(I know because I heard them on the other side of the room). Hard Lander is on Steam Greenlight right now and is something the world needs so upvote it on Steam.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=279815737

View the full Imgur album of the event here as well as images to prove my Duck Hunt high score:

http://imgur.com/a/ZWpxS#13

http://indiegamecon.com/

Rich Evans y Jack crítica " Gucamelee ". Un juego que es a partes iguales Metroid y luchador.

If you are down with Redletter Media then you need to watch their latest review of the Indie Hit, Guacamelee. I can't argue with them here, the game is really fun. That said, I has so much fun in the first few minutes I wanted to save it for when I got my first Steam Machine. Guacamelee just seems like the kind of game best served on a console and the review seems to seal that thought for me.

In a world of disappointing Steam Greenlight games, Broforce shows us a better way forward. In this latest Broforce update the game gets two new Bros in "Bro Max" modeled after Mad Max from the Road Warrior trilogy and "The Brode" penned after Uma Thurman's The Bride from the Kill Bill series. The update also features new levels and Steam Workshop level building updates as well as some multiplayer match-making work.

Skullduggery is a fun platformer where you fling your skull around the afterlife collecting loot. ClutchPlay Games were nice enough to give me an advance copy and I am happy to report the game is really fun. I am only yet a few levels in and it's already hitting a good stride between challenging, fun and addicting. If you love to collect every little bit of loot, Skullduggery will keep you very entertained.

Skullduggery ships with 4 stages "The Skullcademey," "Bonewalk Empire," "Pyramid Schemes" & "Village of the Scammed." Each stage contains 8 levels and tracks all the collectables and stuff you can get in each level. Skullduggery also ships with a flashy new iOS Cloud save/load feature which will sync up your game progress so if you get a new phone or need to wipe it, your game is saved.

Skullduggery will drop on iPhone and iPad on October 9th.

http://departmentofskullduggery.com/

"That's a nice town we have here, be a shame if a tornado or earthquake were to destroy it."

Kind of puts the power you have playing SimCity into the spotlight.... The... unlimted.... power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1TTN-Ev2KI