Have you ever played a simple but successful videogame like Doodle Jump and thought to yourself: “I bet I could make a game like that easily!” With Sketch Nation Studio, that reaction might not be as unbelievable as it once was. Enginious’ newest creation follows its previous success of Sketch Nation Shooter by giving players the tools they need to make their own “beat the hi score” style game.

When it comes to freemium mobile games, few developers are as notable as The Playforge. Responsible for both Zombie Farm and Zombie Life, these gamemakers have just released their third title into the woods, and it’s about as far from their previously undead stomping grounds as you can imagine. Welcome to Tree World.

You’ve built impossibly high towers that strain all laws of architecture and touch the very face of God. You’ve managed cities that sprawl for miles and operate so efficiently that you’re probably qualified to be mayor of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago at the same time. But have you ever cultivated a tree so huge and magical that unicorns live among its branches? Didn’t think so, hot shot. But soon you’ll get your chance with Tree World.

What if your friend built a game, and you could take out your red pen and mark it as you go? Better yet, what if you could pause the game, play around with it, and share your alterations with other friends, family members, and the community at large? That's the concept behind Jumala, a PC title that brings game creation to the players. No programming experience necessary.

What if I told you there was a company that could manipulate your memories to make you believe things happened in your life that never really did. Things that you regret or wish were different. You get the girl. You step on your brakes a second earlier and don’t cause that accident. You never said that thing that made her walk out the door and you lived together forever. Instead of staying at your dead end job you followed your dream of living in Italy. You get the idea.

Being a child of the eighties, I have fond memories of the earliest years of video games. But the fondest of these would have to be the memories of my time spent in my local arcade. The art of the cabinets. The feel of the joystick. The warm glow from the machines that would bathe my face in light. It was magical. That’s why I decided it was time to finally sit down and try the iCade – a peripheral for the iPad from ION Audio that promised to recreate the magic of the arcade in the comfort of my own home.

Dear Dear Esther,

I’m not a philosopher. While I do find myself pondering and analyzing from time to time, I don’t make a daily routine out of finding “the meaning of it all” so I can’t pretend to be one. I’m not entirely sure that you require the person you’re interacting with to be one, which is a good thing. Your calming mood and subdued narrator are something that many people will enjoy, so it’s a good idea not to turn anyone off with my take on you. But really though, the question is: What are you?

Have you ever played Minecraft, looked at the gorgeous and strange world that you (or others) have built, and thought "I'd love to shoot my friends in this place"? While getting into a game of Team Deathmatch in Minecraft probably won't happen any time soon, it turns out that you're about to get the next best thing courtesy of Brick-Force.

In case you haven’t noticed, indie PC gaming is one of the most innovative and interesting gaming scenes out there. Even more so than that is the mod community, that often creates entirely new works from the same engines that are powering almost every major big budget release out there. You know – the ones that sell for six times the price of most indie games. These mods? Yeah, they’re usually free. Every once in a while a mod garners enough attention to warrant a proper release. Such is the case for the upcoming first person exploration game, Dear Esther.

An enigmatic developer by the name of “domp” recently released a game on iOS called Crafted. It is probably a good thing it’s a mysterious company though, as the new app is Minecraft in 2D. No, that isn’t to say that the game is “like” Minecraft. It is to say that it is Minecraft, or at least a blatant copy of it. Like the original, the title is more of a toy than a game, offering players a procedurally generated world in which to build whatever it is that they can imagine.