Double Fine certainly knows how to make games; they’ve demonstrated this with titles like Brutal Legend, Stacking, and most recently, Iron Brigade. Iron Brigade is an excellent game, as you can tell by our review. Iron Brigade’s Rise of the Martian Bear picks up right after Iron Brigade ends. After being defeated, Vladimir Woodruff moves to the last place the broadcast can flourish – mars. After building a colony of tubes to launch yet another broadcast on the...
Shank 2 Electric Murderloo- Kill, kill, drink some booze, reload, kill a whole lot more.
Back in the 1990’s the term Simpsomania had been coined to describe the explosion of popularity The Simpsons gained. The Simpsons merchandise was flying off the shelf. There were every type of toy and knock off toy imaginable. Then came the world’s first Simpsons Arcade Game, simply called “The Simpsons Arcade” it was the first of its kind and was truly revolutionary. Fans could not wait to get their hands on the Simpsons, and being as this was the first Simpsons...
Available February 29th for 800 MSP on XBLA, (PSN and PC version to come later this spring) Nexuiz is a fast paced, intense action arena shooter that allows for “Dynamic Mutators” that can change gameplay and the tide of the battle on the fly. Check out this gameplay trailer and let us know what you think.
THE FOUNDATION, a shadowy corporation. Kidnapping beautiful women with psionic abilites. Following? Ok, then THE FOUNDATION “plugs” them into a virtual reality known as the “Mainframe.” What movie does that last sentence sound like? Anyways, in order for these women to be set free, they must defeat their female competitors in one on one battles using their psionic and fighting abilites. Some of Girl Fight’s features include: Fighting Styles...
Every once in a while a developer says, “Screw it.” Where they decide to create something that they want to see happen. Double Fine Happy Action Theater is one of these moments. DFHAT took a special level of “Screw it” and I’m definitley pleased with the final product. DFHAT is a Kinect game that turns your room into the game space or takes you and places you in the game. 18 stages of some of the most random ideas you could place into a video...
So, you’ve downloaded all the free games Xbox Live has to offer, but you still feel you’re missing something. You have gotten a small taste of the Xbox Live Arcade, and now you’re ready to dive right in. Well get your Microsoft points and rev that engine because here are five Xbox Live Arcade games you absolutely must own: 1. Bastion Do I really even need to explain this one? Bastion follows the kid’s journey through a twisted world after what’s known as...
Some of you may know that Sanctum was one of my picks for Game of the Year, so I am definitely excited to announce that one of my favourite genre-defying Tower Defense / First Person Shooters for the PC has a sequel on the horizon. Developers Coffee Stain Studios, have signed on with Reverb Publishing to create Sanctum 2. Princes among recent indie developers, Coffee Stain has produced one of last year’s best multiplayer experiences. Reverb, being always on the...
Long live gameplay! Chief Marketing Officer Phil Larsen for Australian developer Halfbrick has just updated the sales for two of the companies biggest hits. First up Fruit Ninja Kinect, which has sold half a million digital copies and has been deemed a success by the company. As for the plans of the mobile version, the original Fruit Ninja on iOS, will be receive new content through updates rather than a full blown sequel. The other breakout hit, Jetpack Joyride, has...
I remember sitting down as a young lad and playing Choplifter with my sister on our Sega Master System (My dad didn’t want to buy us the NES, but that’s another story entirely.) Although, maybe too difficult for us at the time, we had some fun with it. So, when Choplifter HD was announced I immediately thought, “Gotta review that.” So here we are, is it just as fun? How great are the graphics? And is it still ridiculously hard? Answers, yes, eh and...
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