Entries Tagged as 'Noteworthy'

The Road to the Blow

March 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Noteworthy

I don’t remember if Sony did this last year, but what is the point to playing a game if you know others are going to cheat? (He who has the most money wins–again.) You’ve already forked over $60 to play and now you’re going to fork over more to advance your play…before you’ve even given [...]

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This Game You Should Play: Spelunky

February 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Gaming, Noteworthy

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
Spelunky is spunky. Get ready for some rambling…Collect gold. Throw objects. Rescue women. Steal idols. Jump. Run. Fall. Throw women. Blow up caves. Buy items. Sacrifice women. Steal items. Die. Die. Die…and die again.
This is only the tip of what can be done with Derek Yu’s wonderful Windows [...]

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This Game You Should Play: Canabalt

January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Gaming, Noteworthy

You ran 8953m before hitting a wall and tumbling to your death.
Canabalt is what Mirror’s Edge should have been–freestyle running that’s fun. It’s comparing apples and oranges, but there’s one other thing about the two games that must be mentioned. Mirror’s Edge uses a myriad of control schemes utilizing bumpers, triggers, and even a little [...]

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This Game You Should Play: Star Guard

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Gaming, Noteworthy, Videos

Star Guard is one of those rare games that come along and wow you on simplicity alone.  The premise: guide the spaceman through the castle and defeat the wizard. You are green. The bad guys are red.  Along the way, you get little bits (ha!) of narrative in the form of text overlays.
The controls are [...]

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Giving Back

January 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Asides, Gaming, Noteworthy, Videos

Probably one of the greatest success stories to ever come from the gaming community–and probably the Internet–has been Penny Arcade. I think here is the reason why.

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Eidos: There’s A Pirate In My Belfry

September 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Gaming, Noteworthy

Batman: Arkham Asylum is a great game. It’s an excellent game. You should be playing it. It’s good enough to pay for. Apparently that wasn’t the case for one gamer who made the following post on an Eidos forum:

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King of Kong—The Rematch

May 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Noteworthy, Videos

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a documentary about video game records. It’s an amazing documentary. Period. Maybe one of the best I’ve seen.
In it, the challenger Steve Wiebe squares off against Billy Mitchell for the Donkey Kong world record. Actually, Steve does a lot of playing and Mitchell does a lot of…talking?
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A Demigod’s Transparency, the Sad Truth

May 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Gaming, Noteworthy

Lost potential?
Ironically, and not entirely by design, we’ve chatted up a couple of items regarding lost potential in the recent months. It appears with all the online problems and piracy that Demigod might be turning out to be one of those titles.
Stardock’s CEO, Brad Wardell, doesn’t seem to think so. In a post on [...]

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Dreamcasting Ikaruga

April 22nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Noteworthy

Ikaruga is perhaps my favorite shooter of all time. I own an original Japanese copy of the game for the Dreamcast.
It’s rare. Like hundreds of dollars on eBay rare.
Years ago, in a fit of madness I sold my used Dreamcast on eBay but kept Ikaruga. My original intention was to create an arcade cabinet, but [...]

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Coign of Vantage

April 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Gaming, Noteworthy

I came across intriguing flash game while catching up on some blog reading. Coign of Vantage is simplistic in its presentation and professional in its style of play.
You basically rotate a set of pixels in a 3D space using your mouse until they line up to make the picture in the upper right hand [...]

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