Tower defense is an addictive genre, but the last time it was ever really ‘reinvented’ to feel fresh was in Q Entertainment’s PixelJunk Monsters. But now, someone’s finally stepped up to the plate and done the most obvious thing to totally jack the idea to new heights: space aliens, and stuff. Unveiled pre-PAX, Hidden Path’s upcoming [...]
Continue reading...28. August 2008
Guests who booked a special-deal PAX room at the Grand Hyatt in Seattle this weekend were treated to a little something special this week: room keys sprawled with BioWare advertising. The Dragon Age: Origins room keys were enough to tickle us in to sleuthing our way in to all three of the available keys that the [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2008
Both Official Xbox Magazine and now Variety are reporting that Brothers in Arms developers Gearbox may be taking over the reigns of Microsoft’s flagship franchise since Bungie declared its independence from Microsoft last year. Variety’s Ben Fritz reported that a source close to the developer confirmed that Gearbox “has definitely had conversations with Microsoft about doing [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2008
Seeing as I’m a huge user of the Google Maps application on my Mac, I think that PSP-Maps is an excellent homebrew application for when I’m planning to be on the move. Developer Royale has gone ahead and written a program that incorporates three different mapping programs: Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Yahoo! Maps [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2008
The Alien Crush pinball game was entirely new to me when it was released for the Wii Virtual Console at the beginning of December last year, seeing as I wasn’t a proud owner of the TurboGrafx-16 way back in the day. Nevertheless, I quickly became obsessed with racking up more and more points, eventually surpassing [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2008
I have been a HUGE fan of the Bomberman series since way back in the SNES days of partying it up with three other friends in my parent’s basement. There was nothing quite as satisfying as planting the perfect bomb arrangement to take your annoying little brother out of the game! That being said, I was [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2008
Jagged Alliance is a tactical RPG series that first saw the light of day in the mid-to-late 1990’s on the PC. This game was originally announced quite some time ago, but disappeared off the radar when the publisher, Strategy First, cancelled all of the DS titles that they had in the works. The good news [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2008
Earlier this month I made mention of a homebrew title called Age of Nations. I’ll give you a very brief synopsis of the game in case you missed my earlier article. Basically, it’s a real-time strategy game that been coded in Lua for the PSP by homebrew developer seanpaul223. A lot of work has gone into [...]
Continue reading...26. August 2008
Seriously? The press release of the day award can go to nobody but iQ212 for their new franchise, Redneck Fishin’. In the city, suburbs, and woods, players fish for trout, bass, and more, using dynamite as bait. Yeah, you read that correctly: dynamite as bait! We couldn’t be making this up. There’s no way we could possibly [...]
Continue reading...25. August 2008
Microsoft has told RPG-TV that the Fall Xbox 360 Dashboard Update will be arriving on home consoles in November. Technically, it is still fall. Announced at this year’s E3, the new update completely redefines the Xbox 360 experience by removing the ‘blades’ and creating a smoother, more visual interface. Microsoft hopes it will enable gamers to [...]
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28. August 2008
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