In his rapid rise to popularity, Edmund McMillen seems to have materialized practically from nowhere. Debuting professionally with Super Meat Boy, McMillen’s work was met with both critical and commercial success, instantly making an impact on the indie space of gaming. He followed up on this success a year later with The Binding of Isaac, a more controversial but still successful title that incorporated randomization and a commentary on religion into a rogue-like dungeon crawler. Suffice it to say, McMillen has a lot of talent, and his quick rise to fame would seem to imply that he came out of the blue. This is what The Basement Collection is here for; it’s comprised of several of McMillen’s previous freeware titles with some additional content/tuning/both and behind-the-scenes content for each game. Does the collection fare well in light of McMillen’s previous efforts?
Hardcore Gamer: Most of these editions include the soundtrack as well as a few other neat goodies such as post cards, soundtrack, and stickers.
Bit Cultures writes: It’s week five of Steam A to Z and, as this is an article which isn’t related to Fallout 4 in any way at all, I welcome the three people actually reading this! You know, a more unscrupulous journalist would scatter mentions of Fallout 4 throughout this article just to boost its prospects for those all-important clicks. Thankfully I have more scruples than you could shake a Radroach at, so that certainly won’t be happening. (Radroaches, of course, being one of the many weird and wonderful critters appearing in Bethesda’s Fallout 4.)
GameZone's David Sanchez writes: "Welcome to the inaugural edition of Dr. David’s indie roundup, where I, Dr. David, will be your host. I will guide you through a few of the current stories going on in the world of indie game development. Don’t let my title scare you -- I won’t be stabbing you with needles or drawing blood. Think of it as a fake title, like when paleontologists have a doctorate degree. I mean, those dudes aren’t really doctors anyway. Not that they’re not useful -- it’s certainly of the utmost importance to know when dinosaurs pooped. Um, all right, I’m going to stop offending scientists now and get this thing started. Let’s talk indie games!"
