Psychosomnium is a new freeware platformer by cactus in which players find themselves in a sparse dream world filled with a cast of quirky characters. Use the cursor keys to move, and press the Z key to carry out a specific action when available.

Video walkthrough by Grawl in the extended. (major spoilers)

Name: Psychosomnium
Developer: cactus
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Direct download link: Click here

Death Village is the latest game to come out of Nigoro. A little over a year in production, the extra effort really shines through in pretty much every aspect of the game.

Slam doors, open windows, and generally scare Kevin out of each stage while keeping him away from mummies, ghosts and other monsters.

A level editor is also available, which the author encourages everyone to use. All user created levels are available from within the main game and playable by anyone.

(Editor's note: Some people have (correctly) pointed out that an earlier build of this game was posted to Nigoro in the spring. This is the completed version of the game, with network uploading of custom stages and a level editor.)

Name: Death Village
Developer: Nigoro
Category: Puzzle
Type: Browser

Cursor*10 is a puzzler which involves directing the actions of all ten cursors and clicks, one at a time. Events will loop, but it will take at least a couple of tries to figure out a solution for all sixteen floors.

Name: Cursor*10
Developer: nekogames
Category: Action
Type: Browser

"...the game will be nauseating. And hard." [Flywrench]

You play as an unwilling hero in EverEternal WinterWorld, thrown into a quest to stop a villain from inflicting eternal winter upon the lands. The game features an original soundtrack, three different weapons, seven levels, four bosses and hordes of evil enemies.

Try disabling snow via the options menu item if you experience any slow-down.

Name: EverEternal WinterWorld
Developer: SilverNova
Category: Platform
Type: Freeware
Size: 5MB
Direct download link: Click here

Due out for the Nintendo DS and Wii in spring 2008.

A gameplay video taken from Q-Games' second release, PixelJunk Monsters - previously previewed in a GameSetWatch article.

Tarnadon is a simple rogue-like game in which you wander between several large maps killing monsters and collecting other people to add to your party. Added party members will copy your attacks, but they are very weak and die easily.

Use the Z key to use your boomerang and the X key to fire a powerful magic attack. Magic attacks are limited, but can be replenished by picking up extras along the way.

Name: Tarnadon
Developer: N.I.
Category: Rogue-like
Link: N.I.'s Website
Direct Download: Download

Iron Dukes is basically a collection of three different mini games, repeated with increasing difficulty as your three crew members gain seaworthy skills by equipping an odd array of treasures and loots.

Fights involve shooting at objects flashing red for maximum damage, while diving requires the player to left click on a safe spot shown on the right of the screen as they sink further into the sea in search for treasure chest. Clicking on a skull incurs a health penalty.

This demo features one playable level only. A finalist in the IGF Web Browser category.

Name: Iron Dukes
Developer: One Ton Ghost
Category: Arcade
Type: Browser

An interview with John Bardinelli, the reviews coordinator of JayisGames.

Ok John, let's begin with an introduction of yourself for the readers who are unfamiliar with your journalism activities.

I'm John Bardinelli (JohnB), a freelance writer who stumbled into video game journalism about five years ago. The last few years I've focused on the indie gaming scene (hooray!) as well as online gaming, especially casual Flash games on the main site I work for, JayIsGames. In the past I've worked for several sites, a few of which are now defunct (DS Central, Playgressive), but I also do some indie game writing for Joystiq, which is nice. And of course the odd gaming/geek-related article on my personal blog (http://www.bardinelli.com/) .

"Here’s a month by month guide to the best of 2007 in the world of Remakes. Well, the most notable, anyway." - oddbob

My personal favourites from the list are: Chaffinch Challenge, Zub, Typhoon 2001 and G-Force. But don't take my word for it; the rest are just as good.

The 2007 Retro Remakes Awards

Sonny is a turn based RPG game following the story of a man named Sonny, who wakes up on a ship only to find himself turned into a zombie.

The game offers four different classes to choose from, thirty-one levels, six bosses, original soundtrack and voice acting as well. Krin Juangbhanich has made plans to add new levels (10 fights + Boss) every two weeks so that people may continue with their characters.

Name: Sonny
Developer: Armor Games
Category: RPG
Type: Browser

[Hey folks - Simon @ GameSetWatch here. May be popping in occasionally to mention our Indie Game Festival/Summit line-up as GDC 2008 approaches - which is, to be sure, a bit more 'pro'-focused than a lot of the games mentioned here, but has some good crossover potential. In this case, we released info on the Indie Summit at GDC's line-up.]

The organizers of the 2008 Independent Games Summit have announced the majority of the line-up for the February 2008 event, with postmortems of N+ and Schizoid alongside talks from notable creators at Introversion, Queasy Games, Kongregate, WayForward, ThatGameCompany, and more.

The 2008 Independent Games Summit (operated by CMP, as is this site) seeks to highlight the brightest and the best of indie development, with discussions ranging from indie game distribution methods through game design topics, detailed postmortems of independent titles, digital distribution-centric business concepts, and much more.

Once again, the IGS is a sister event to the 2008 Independent Games Festival. Taking place on the Monday and Tuesday of Game Developers Conference 2008, February 18th and 19th, the event follows the successful Independent Games Summit in 2007, for which multiple videos have been posted on Gamasutra in the last few months.

While speakers representing IGF Grand Prize winner Aquaria, World Of Goo, PixelJunk Racers, fl0w/The Night Journey and more already confirmed, the new set of confirmed 2008 Independent Games Summit lectures include:

GameTunnel is currently running a series of articles listing the best indie games released this year in a special countdown which ends tonight. The latest 'What's New in Indie' feature for the month of December is also up.

GameTunnel's Game of the Year Awards 2007

Braid: Jonathan Blow had posted a couple of new screenshots from his upcoming 'platformer' (term used loosely), due out on XBLA early next year.

Jasper's Journeys: Lexaloffle's new game will be released this coming Valentine's Day.

Eschalon Book 1: Basilisk Games' first indie RPG release is now available for the Linux platform.

Lila Dreams: Creatrix Games had posted a small design sketch from their upcoming Kongregate-funded MMO game, Lila Dreams.

Fraxy: mon's Fraxy gets a new update.

Village Destroyer 2000: JTR (Death Worm) had posted a new experimental game in the GMC forums.

The Hawksmill Horror: smila is currently working on a horror adventure game.

From Digital Tools - "Rolling Madness 3D a complete rebuild of the original 1984 Marble Madness with original graphics and original sound. The funky detail here is, that it's rebuild with a 3D-engine and that you can switch between different isometric and perspective views and also turn the game to the 'balls perspective'. Very clever. Playing an arcade classic in a new and interesting fashion."

The download link is located on the top-right corner of the Rolling Madness 3D website.

Name: Rolling Madness 3D
Developer: Luca Elia
Category: Arcade
Type: Freeware
Size: 20MB