The rest of PAX West 2022’s standout indie games: Rhythm madness, bloody combat

Enlarge / The Nintendo corner of PAX West 2022; it’s hard to get a full photo of the entire show floor, especially one that includes all eight games profiled in the article below. (credit: ReedPOP) SEATTLE—In-person video game conventions are back! Kind of! Nerdy conventions and other physical events began reappearing in public halls late […]

Justin Roiland, Shovel Knight devs dish on their trippy new indie games

Enlarge / Our two favorite interviews and gameplay sessions at PAX West 2022 revolved around games from two completely different companies. To be clear: Mina the Hollower (left) is not being produced in any way by Justin Roiland (right) or his company Squanch Games. (credit: Yacht Club Games / Squanch Games) SEATTLE—Last week’s crowded, fun-filled […]

Flavorwire’s Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in April

Please enjoy this spring sweet spot at the art house, free of the baggage of early-year releases that weren’t good enough for the end of the year, but not yet clobbered by the onslaught of summer blockbusters. This is one of the best times of the year to release your indie movie, and appropriately enough, […]

How Buke and Gase built a huge indie rock career—and its own guitars, software

L-R: Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez perform as Buke and Gase in November 2018. Each holds one of the band’s titular, custom-built instruments: a baritone ukulele and a guitar-bass fusion. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] NEW YORK CITY—The band brings to the stage: two stringed instruments, neither of which look exactly like a bass or a […]

Flavorwire’s Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in November

We’re moving ever more speedily towards the end of the year, which is when the Quality Motion Picture game ramps up — both in the multiplexes (as studios trot out their end-of-the-year, Oscar-hopeful prestige fare) and at the art house. So this month we have 11 recommendations for you, from a Cannes winner to an […]