Braid is breathtaking. This isn’t hyperbole, exaggeration, or any kind of overstatement. You’ll undoubtedly be audibly wowed by the initial, and final scene, as well as everything in between. One of this Xbox Live Arcade title’s less appealing features, however, is the mundane platforming that makes up the entirety of the short-lived adventure. But with [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 5, 2008
As a game, Braid is deceptively simple. The tutorial level offers basic platforming elements from the 8-bit era, complete with head-boppin’ baddies to kill them, platform jumping and ladder climbing. The twist, however, makes the game more Prince of Persia than Donkey Kong, as rewinding time in various aspects - from duplicating yourself, rewinding with [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 7, 2008
In the days of Monster Rancher, gamers would feed their PlayStations countless CDs trying to load up the best monster, as the game would read most any CD and pump out a new pet for players to train for battles. A decade and some later, Square Enix has taken this concept and applied it to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 21, 2008
With the American release of Nintendo’s “Nintendo Channel” for the Wii, I’m surprised at how little buzz there is about it, especially the DS demo download section. Before if you wanted to download some of the DS titles, you had to go somewhere other than your home to do it (if your friend didn’t have [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 14, 2008
Alex Ward, Creative Director for Criterion, posted details on his message board about free Burnout Paradise downloadable content coming to Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The content consists of islands off the coast of Paradise City attached via bridges. The move is a surprisingly generous nod to Burnout fans. No release date has been announced for this free content. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 11, 2008
We’ve been curious around the HQ here as to how Wii Ware - Nintendo’s digital distribution service equivalent to Xbox Live Arcade - is going to work. I mean, yeah, we get it, but will it succeed with the so called “hardcore casual” grannies? The service is set to offer smaller games for [...]
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