Fight Your Way Through Claustrophobic Bullet Hell Dungeons In Monolith

Within the narrow halls and rooms of an ancient structure, a ship delves ever deeper in search of treasure and secrets. Monolith eschews the screenfuls of bullets or open arenas of more traditional shmups and shooters for tight claustrophobic dungeons. The action however is no less frenetic. Descending into the ruined randomly-generated depths, you face […]

A Look Back At Fez’s Unsolvable “Black Monolith” Puzzle 

Vibrantly-pixelated indie darling Fez turned five years old this week, so it’s the perfect time to celebrate the game’s strangest puzzle and the community of players who devoted themselves to solving it. Released in April of 2012 on Xbox Live Arcade, Fez seemed like a retro-throwback from an alternate reality; the kind of made-up game […]