If you haven't heard of Beat Hazard, it's a pretty fucking awesome indie game, provided you like epilepsy.

Even if you don't, however, it's still a pretty fucking awesome game.

**Unfortunately, there's no demo, so you'll have to shell out the $8 for it. Search Youtube for some gameplay videos; the best way to describe it is the lovechild of Audiosurf and Geometry Wars, but even better than that.
*EDIT: THERE IS NOW A DEMO DISREGARD, COCKS, ETC.

The game takes your music, and makes a unique stage based off of it. Skeptics can rest assured; it's very evident that the song effects gameplay when playing, for example, the intensity of the music will reflect the intensity of your weapon (this can be a caveat; quiet songs can be hard or nigh-on-impossible to play).

You can collect volume and power powerups, and these affect the strength of your weapons. Like Geometry Wars, you can lay bombs that oblierate all enemies on the screen, and should be used as a last defence. There are also large bosses, which take massive amounts of firepower to destroy.

Currently, the game only supports .mp3 format; so those of you who use the iTunes store or store music in another format won't be able to use their music. Of course you can re-encode them - but there's not much point as a promised update should bring more format support.

There are other miscellaneous bugs right now, but these are going to be ironed out by the developer. He is quite active on the steam forums for Beat Hazard, and has already promised a fix for some of the more prominent bugs and more music codec support.

To sum it up in a sentence fragment, Beat Hazard is "Widly addictive, strobing, sensory bliss".

It isn't as good as Audiosurf. It's - in my opinion - much better.

That is all

(inb4 'viral marketing')