Yesterday, Super Meat Boy was released on Steam. It’s going for $15, but if you preordered, it was only $10. There was a whole lot of hype surrounding this release… It’s one of the most loved downloadable console games of the year. Unfortunately, upon release, many problems were found. Problems ranged from crashes, to bosses not appearing, and some display issues. There was also some complaint about control issues — this is... Read→
Spelunky caught my attention initially for two reasons — for one, it was the first game selected for the Indie Gaming Club on Reddit. Plus, it’s a game about mining, and Minecraft has pretty much run my life since I discovered it, so this wouldn’t be going too far out of my recently established comfort zone. Plus, it’s free. So I decided to give it a download, and was up and running very shortly. When I first began, things... Read→
Being a huge Star Wars fan myself, stuff like this makes my ears perk right on up. This week on Steam, every day we’ll see a new LucasArts game go on sale. (Today, Monday, it’s The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition. It’s only $7.50. Sweet.) While I wholeheartedly recommend you pick up The Force Unleashed, as it is one of my favourite Star Wars games of all time (such a great story), make sure your computer can run it first.... Read→
Puzzle Dimension is a puzzle game (no way!) that has you rolling around 3D levels as a metallic ball on a grid, looking to collect all the sunflowers in the area. Simple enough, right? Well, there’s a bunch of stuff in your way, of course! The traps in this game are what make it interesting. There are many different kinds of trap squares; from squares that just crumble after you roll off of them to squares that catch fire after you’ve... Read→
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 has recently been announced. Hype for the game has been building steadily, and I’m personally incredibly excited for its imminent release. The original Sonic games for the Nintendo Genesis were my childhood addictions. I played the crap out of every single one of those games, then went back and played them again. As soon as the series broke out into the third dimension, I felt that it had lost its roots and I had completely... Read→
It’s very difficult to compare the today’s video game industry with the video game industry of ten or twenty years ago, as so many things have changed. Latest generation consoles, with their hi-speed online connectivity and impressive graphics power are much more advanced than the old school ones like Sega Channel, but what about certain popular genres that have never quite been able to make the jump to this generation of consoles? To be... Read→
Super Mafia Land is a Mario clone of one of the least popular, yet most unique original Mario games in the main series, Super Mario World 2. Except in this game, they aren’t plumbers, they are real Italians, capiche? With three knockoff characters with a mirror to the originals (excluding toad) you make your way through a Super Mario world 2 like world as Mafia members collecting fruits as well as pizza. With a few “surprises” along... Read→
Christmas is almost here and Sonic Unleashed, a great new game, is due to hit store shelves just in time for the holliday shopping rush. Sonic the Hedgehog, an incredibly fast blue hedgehog was originally created for the Sega Master System back in the 1980′s. Since then Sonic has skyroketed into massive popularity with the development of many Sonic games throughout the years, including dosens of free flash Sonic games one can play online.... Read→
Despite being a blatant Super Mario Bros. clone, The Great Giana Sisters was one of the best platforming games of the late 1980s — and now, thanks to dtp Entertainment, it’s coming to the Nintendo DS. Developed by Giana creator Armin Gessert’s Spellbound Studios, and featuring a soundtrack full of remixed versions of the original game’s tunes and much updated 2-D graphics, the new version hits European store shelves in June... Read→
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