Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya's Cave Story tops TIG's indie game list (and it's free)

Consolidated and trimmed from an ongoing list of hundreds of great indie games posted at their forums, The Independent Gaming Source posted a list of much loved indie games that not only are of great quality and entertainment but also demonstrate why indie games should be of interest to anyone: they are imaginative, cover a huge range of scenarios, and most of them are free or can be had for less than the cost of a nice lunch.

Kudos to TIG for this terrific resource.

Check out the TIG’s list of 50 really good indie games.

It seems, at least here in Los Angeles, that the Xbox NXE update went off without a hitch.  With a Gold membership for Xbox and a paltry $8.99 monthly Netflix membership we are now able to stream HD, dynamically update the playlist and benefit from Netflix’s recursive recommendation strategy so that, with our 46″ HDTV there is really no reason to ever leave the house again. 

Pointing this out to a fellow video director whose credits include some A-list rock acts – we agreed when he said that purchasing an Xbox 360 for this feature alone is worth the cost of admission.  ”Hell I wouldn’t even play any games” he said.  We can’t disagree.  THIS is the way to watch movies; near real-time all-you-can-eat streaming of movies, in HD, with a catalog of titles 10k deep.  Kudos Microsoft – beyond the community games functionality (which will ultimately substantiate our site’s existence) and the avatars, this Netflix co-op is indeed a killer app.

The only caveat – Canadians and fans of Sony/Columbia catalog will have to wait this round out.