With another episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People now released to the world, the series has crossed the halfway mark. The new entry, Baddest of the Bands, is the third of five planned episodic games for the initial run of Telltale Games’ take on the Homestar Runner universe. As we mentioned during [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Quite a few terms have been thrown around in order to refer to Wii Music. Nintendo’s marketing materials call the title “a musical playground where there are no mistakes.” Game auteur Shigeru Miyamoto agrees that Wii Music is more like a “toy,” suggesting that its friendly, non-competitive nature, and its lack of scores make it [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Ask yourself the following question: How many times, over the course of your life, have you bought a version of Tetris? Two? Five? A dozen? Tetris is about as ubiquitous a game as has ever existed. It singlehandedly defines an entire genre — when people are trying to describe an action-puzzler, they say, “You know, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 17, 2008
World of Goo is a strange animal: An innovative, two-dimensional, physics-based puzzler, possessed by both adorable, cute graphics, and delightfully macabre writing and themes. World of Goo isn’t the kind of game that specifically needs to be on WiiWare, but the Wii is certainly a good platform for it — while there may be no [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 16, 2008
Quirky games - those that do not easily fall into the readily accepted genres like FPS or RPG - are very hit or miss. Some, like Katamari Damacy, are great successes. Others, such as Stretch Panic, fall well under the radar, and typically end up as cult favorites. Yet, these games are refreshing to play, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 15, 2008
A while back, we featured an announcement from Gamers To Players (G2P), a new instructional documentary, which made an interesting claim: This DVD boasts the ability to “transform gamers into real guitarists.” Join us as we put this claim to the test, attempting to use the DVD’s instructions to turn a Rock Band/Guitar Hero devotee [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 13, 2008
We previewed Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars about a month ago, and we rather enjoyed our time with the game. Psyonix Studios’ first independently published, PlayStation Network-exclusive, UE3 and PhysX-powered game has a title with far too many syllables and words, but it’s also extremely descriptive. Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars (henceforth “SARPBC”) is a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 10, 2008
The developer behind Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir is Big Fish Games, a company that makes no secret of its specialty. Visiting the Big Fish website, one will see “Hidden Object” as the top genre of their catalog, a link to “10 New Hidden Object Games!” and a handful of editor’s picks, half of which are [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 7, 2008
A while back, we featured an announcement from Gamers To Players (G2P), a new instructional documentary, which made an interesting claim: This DVD boasts the ability to “transform gamers into real guitarists.” Join us as we put this claim to the test, attempting to use the DVD’s instructions to turn a Rock Band/Guitar Hero devotee [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Last week, we featured an announcement from Gamers To Players (G2P), a new instructional documentary, which made an interesting claim: This DVD, said the press release, can “transform gamers into real guitarists.” At the time, I called this promise a tall order; I have personally attempted to make this transformation in the past, and met [...]
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Monday, October 27, 2008
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