EA is accused by some of appealing to the lowest common denominator, so why not embrace that? The publisher has announced this morning that they will start releasing games specifically for dummies. That is, For Dummies, with capital letters; EA has partnered up with Wiley Publishing of the For Dummies brand and developer Beanbag Studios [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 2, 2008
I’m hoping I can go this entire review without saying “The twist is,” or “But there’s a twist!” or “With just a twist of,” or any such obvious quip. I’m also hoping my wrist stops aching soon — Magnetica Twist is a fairly addictive little action-puzzler, controlled entirely through small rotations of the Wiimote. After a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Here’s a fun experiment you can do at home! Go to Google and search for Arkanoid. You should see some five-dozen free online flash games, each one implementing one or two new wrinkles into the classic brickout-with-powerups archetype. Now, open each one of those games in a new tab, and attempt to play every one [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Among the presentations at this year’s Ubidays event was Ubisoft’s family-friendly, casual (read: Wii and DS) line of games for fun, productivity, and personal health. New entries in the “Games for Everyone“ lineup were cheerfully described for Ubidays attendees (and online voyeurs) by Pauline Jacquey, an executive director for Ubisoft. The company confirmed that, yes, we’ll [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 21, 2008
As awesome music-driven games by Tetsuya Mizuguchi go, Lumines is pretty awesome and music-driven. Now, thanks to Steam, purveyors of a couple of other decent games you might want to look into, you can enjoy the colorful, rhythm-laden puzzler on your PC.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
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