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Foul Play Classes Up Its Brawling for Theatrical Audience

Multiplayer beat-em ups will always have a place in my downloadable library. Foul Play is looking to bring a bit more class to the genre and to XBLA with its old-fashioned brawling style. Foul Play stars Baron Dashforth as he reenacts his true life story of daemon hunting for a in-game theater audience. It “is a side-scrolling brawler that rewards performance over pummelling, and as the lead actor in the greatest show on earth it’s your job to keep the [...]

Hokra Uses the Minimum Number of Required Pixels for a Great Sports Game Experience

The fine art of the great “full couch” multiplayer game has been overshadowed by our connected age. However, whenever I see a game capture that essence, I still get excited. Hokra may not look like much at all, but it will stoke the very loins of your competitive gaming core if you let it: Four local players. Two teams. One ball. Hold the ball in your goal for points. Hit the point cap to win. Simple. Pure. Emotional. Fun. Admittedly, [...]

Xenonauts Preview: Reimagining X-COM the Right Way

During our Start in the Dark: Remake it So Podcast, we spoke about games we’d like to see remade or re-imagined and X-COM: UFO Defense happened to be top on my list. While 2K Games is already working on their own take on the X-COM series, the apparent quest for a broader audience has taken the turn based strategy gameplay that I love and replaced it with the more widely accepted shooter action. Not that that’s a terrible thing, but fans [...]

Portal 2 Preview: Hungry for Some Cake

04/07/2011
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by Justin Gifford in: Guessing, Previews

Way back when, there was a student tech demo project at the DigiPen Institute of Technology that turned into a game. This game (later) got packed with The Orange Box, which is something that you just NEED to own if you play video games…at all. The game was called Portal and you didn’t kill anyone (human) and you didn’t carry a gun, yet it appealed to FPS junkies. It had a quirky, geeky sense of humor with robots and advanced [...]

Bastion Preview: Narrating Your Way Through The World

If you’re like me, you are getting more and more excited about independent development of video games. With Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, there are now major outlets for developers to get back to small team development. That is exactly what happened when ex-EA people got together to form Supergiant Games and create the first game in its catalog, Bastion. In Bastion, you start as a seemingly silent protagonist known only as “The Kid” as he wakes up in a [...]

Red Faction: Armageddon Ready to Destroy, Rebuild, Destroy Again

If I’ve learned anything from the Red Faction series it is that Mars is the universe’s greatest sandbox. The series made its mark in the PS2 era with allowing the player to deform the game world around them. Red Faction: Armageddon is the 4th game in the franchise and continues to build/destroy off of the chaos that Red Faction: Guerrilla brought back to gamers in 2009. As you can see from the preview above, the tools and weapons at your [...]

Wrecked: Revenge Revisited is the Mashed Successor I’ve Been Waiting For

03/09/2011
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by Rob Shaw in: Guessing, Previews

If you never played Mashed: Fullly Loaded on Xbox or Playstation 2, then you really haven’t lived. You might as well just die right now…. BUT WAIT! Lucky for you, there’s no need to kill yourself, or even to dust off that old console and search frantically on Ebay for an NTSC disc! (Interestingly, only PAL players seem to want to get rid of this.) SuperSonic Software is getting ready to release a shiny, all-new, downloadable XBLA and PSN version [...]

MLB 11: The Show Starts the Spring Off Right

March is here and with it comes the hope of every baseball fan (every Cubs fan in particular) that this year will finally be the year their team wins the World Series. The San Francisco Giants set the tone by winning their first title in 60+ years and other teams look to repeat the model they set last season. As a baseball fan, the start of every spring gets me excited for the upcoming year and nothing quenches my thirst [...]

Total War: Shogun 2 Preview: Deep is an Understatement

When it comes to strategy games, there are two distinct types in turn based and real time. Both have their pros and cons, but real time strategy games seem to be the most popular as of late. I happen to enjoy turn based quite a bit though and was excited to see that Total War: Shogun 2 would soon be out and featured a very solid balance of both. Once I started playing the demo however, I realized I may [...]

WWE All-Stars Looks Flat Out Ridiculous

Pro wrestling is an athletic, over the top form of sports entertainment that doesn’t need much in the way of embellishment when it comes to transferring that action to video game form. WWE All-Stars is looking to change that when it is released on March 29. Developed and published by THQ, All-Stars takes your favorite wrestlers from the 80′s and 90′s and squares them off against the superstars of today. You might be asking yourself “Why should I be interested in a [...]