Author: Ryan Bates

Operation: Epic Furious is going to make a certain subset of people… well… furious. And that’s precisely the point. Operation: Epic Furious: Strait to Hell is a browser-based game made in RPGMaker that was shadow-dropped recently online by the team at Secret Handshake. Even the most die-hard indie game lovers probably will not recognize Secret Handshake; that’s because Secret Handshake is not a game studio. Secret Handshake is actually a guerrilla art collective. Specifically, the anonymous collective is best known for creating and erecting art pieces of the world’s most notorious sex trafficker and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, dancing joyously with…

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The latest Xbox indie showcase featured a healthy output of titles ranging from the quirky to the ambitious. Here are some standouts. The reputation of the mighty Green Machine has not been stellar as of late. Between internalshake-ups at the top, an overwhelming distrust of parent company Microsoft’s love affair with AI, and the plague of industry-wide issues such as ballooning costs and career instability, Xbox has managed to step on as many rakes as possible over the past several months. But one arena where Xbox has always managed to shine is its championing of the indie game scene, and…

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