A week prior to the release of Warner Brother’s new action-fantasy film, Sucker Punch, Warner Bros Entertainment released a first person shooter game for iPad called Sucker Punch Mech Gunner, available in the App Store. The App’s description refers to it as being “inspired” by the movie, but hey, we know what it really is. It’s a promotional material for […]
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Vanquish immediately has three things working against in most gamer’s eyes. First is the fact the game has received little if any marketing, so most gamers don’t know much about it and often wrongly assume that it means it isn’t any good. Second, is that it is a third person shooter, a genre that many gamers unfairly disregard if it […]
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A collaboration between Catnip Games and Aruba Studios comes Bloodshed Ninja,an automatic side scrolling slasher set in the early years of Japan. Two game modes are available, Default; where you fight through the levels, and endless slaughter; where the backgrounds cycle until you die a warrior’s death. I feel that the four levels and the two game modes are substantial […]
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In honor of St. Patrick’s Day we thought we would put together a list of games that are either incredibly fun to play while drinking or turn into an outright drinking game. We’ve numbered this list, because that’s what you do with list, plus we know we won’t be able to count to ten by the end of the day […]
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Recent trends show digital sales are rising, as are profits. So, are we finally starting to go digital?
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Torchlight has been out for the PC for some time, but makes its debut on console as a downloadable XBLA title. The dungeon crawler offers hours of game play with untold number of dungeons to fight your way through as you fight a mystic ancient evil with your pet by your side. A straightforward RPG that in many ways feels […]
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Hello, and welcome to the first iTuesday, a recurring segment where we will be looking at games for the iPhone and iPad. This week we take a look at PopCap’s Plants VS. Zombies. Plants Vs. Zombies is a strategy game where you protect your home (and your brains) from a zombie attack using a range of different plants all with different […]
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PopCap may be the kings of the casual game. Plats vs. Zombies, Peggle, Bejeweled, the list of fun addictive games that everyone from your grandmother to your six-year-old nephew can’t stop playing is extensive. Odds are you have played Bejeweled at some point; Bejeweled Blitz Live isn’t even the first iteration of the classic puzzler on Xbox Live Arcade, and […]
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In the era of FPS games, one genre that has fallen to the wayside in the last two console generations has been the arcade racer. Some notables have come along, such as Hydro Thunder Hurricane and of course there is a Mario Kart for the Wii (I’m sure there is a law that states a Nintendo system must have at […]
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Harmonix had just finished their first game featuring a single band, a project featuring one of the most successful, memorable, and loved bands of all time: The Beatles. While the game didn’t sell as well as most had expected, it was well received both by critics and gamers alike, and undoubtedly the guys at Harmonix had to be wondering how […]
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