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7th of September 2009

Playstation 3 Slim sells 150,000 units in three days in Japan.  More

Wii Fit is being sold for £50 in Morrisons.  More

Galactic Warfare, call of Duty 4 mod

Freeware Game Pick: Solar Plexus (Konjak)

Solar Plexus is a puzzle platformer created by the developer of the Noitu Love series, where you are in control of a female protagonist sent to investigate the sudden communication silence from a certain space colony. Most of the challenges in the game require the player to manipulate blocks using the mouse and navigate around obstacles placed deliberately to hinder their progress forward.

Weapon ammo is limited to just fifty shells as well, but you can replenish this stock by left-clicking on ammunition blocks resting somewhere in most levels. Some doors will only open after you've placed purple blocks in specially marked areas, while other locations are only accessible by creating your own platforms with the blocks.

This is an unfinished version of the full game, containing nine levels to play in total. Joakim has no plans to continue developing it, and is considering the project an abandoned one.

Indie Game Pick: Trashman (Extend Studios)

The story of Extend Studios' Trashman is set in the distant future, where a space station has been built to clean up the heavy pollution contaminating Earth, using funds contributed by governments around the world. Everything worked according to plan and the planet was finally on the right track to recovery when an unexpected incident causes all robots on the station to go haywire. Playing as the super-robot Ares, you are sent on a mission to rescue task force members who were trapped while conducting an investigation to find out the extent of damage sustained by the ship.

This 2D platformer can be played using the keyboard, mouse or the Xbox controller, although you can only shoot in eight directions as full analogue controls are not supported. Members of Extend Studios currently have plans to release Trashman for both Windows and Xbox 360 platforms.

There is only one level to play in this demo version, which you can grab from the official site for the game.

Trailer: Emberwind (TimeTrap)

A nice little trailer for the upcoming platform game by TimeTrap, a development studio based in Sweden. Created using their own proprietary 'Odin' engine, Emberwind is pretty much a completed project and will have a release date announced for it once the game has been picked up by a publisher.

Watch it here in HD.

Dream.Build.Play 2009 Winners Announced

4th of September 2009

SCE Europe boss Andrew House believes that the  Playstation 3 will outpace the Playstation 2.  Maybe he was talking about the Wii.  More

XBOX 360 sells seven times as many units in Japan last week as the Playstation 3.  More

Harmony Gold gets uppity over a few designs for the next MechWarrior.  More

In a survey on SquareTrade, the XBOX 360 was found to have had a failure rate of 23.5% and is down to 4% this year.  What I found interesting was that the Playstation 3 had a failure rate of 10%, which is higher than the XBOX 360.  More

3rd of September 2009

OnLive is now open for beta testing in the USA.  More

Pokemon Rumble

Trailer: The Three Musketeers (Dingo Games)

A 2D RPG based on The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas. Expect lots of looting, levelling up, banter and sword-fighting.

There's actually a free beta to download right now, but apparently Dingo Games are about to release the full version for $19.95, so if you want to give it a try, you'd better get in there quick! Download it from here.

2nd of September 2009

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, will be launching in America on the 22nd of September and will include a 2 CD music set.  It will retail at $39.99, and it will be available via retail and from the Playstation store.  More

Could Mushihime-sama Futari Version 1.5 be coming to the west?  Check out Makoto Asada's forum post and make your own mind up.  More

Frozzd

In Frozzd, you take the role of an astronaut tasked with the mission of freeing orange-colored creatures named Mubblies from their frozen state. You begin each level with King Mubbly as your companion, who has the ability to unfreeze his subjects or attack the Frozzds with a tap of the space key. Drink coffee to increase your suit's temperature, and use the points you've acquired to unlock new stages.

Each of the twelve levels introduces a different enemy, and points acquired from previous stages can be used to unlock new ones.

You can download it here and here as well.

Flashbang Studios Release Time Donkey

Time Donkey Trailer from Flashbang Studios on Vimeo.

Flashbang's ninth game has now been released! Time Donkey is available to play over at Blurst.com.

In a very peculiar nutshell, the hero donkey has a bit of a problem - he is stuck re-living the same 30 seconds over and over again. Cue a barrage of donkeys and much puzzle solving by use of donkeys from your past! Or should that be donkeys from your own time? Surely this makes no sense whatsoever, but when it features donkeys who destroys things in search of tacos, sense is few and far between.

Is this Flashbang's most mental game yet? Give it a try and decide for yourself.

1st of September 2009

God of War 1 & 2 will be remastered for the Playstation 3.  More

Valkyria Chronicles screen shots.  More

La Pucelle Tactics, a Nippon Ichi game, will be ported to the PSP.  More

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, amongst other games, will be coming to the Sony store.  More

Tower of Shadow has been renamed to Lost in Shadow and will released in 2010.  More

I hope everyone in the UK had a lovely Bank Holiday.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, is to be released on the iPhone and iPod Touch this autumn.  More

An all-new Okami game will be released on the Nintendo DS and it will be called Okamiden.  It is a single player game in the style of the original.  I still haven't played it and I bought it brand new.  More

A new free first person shooter is available, called Warsow.  It's available to download for Windows, Linux and the Mac.  It's approximately 240 Mega Bytes in size.

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Raystorm HD footag

Freeware Game Pick: Beacon (Chevy Ray Johnston)

Depending on how good you are at overcoming difficult challenges, Beacon can be a rather lengthy platformer that will take some time to beat. Shadows are lurking in every corner waiting for our protagonist to make a wrong move, but as luck would have it a beacon of light appears out of nowhere to help him illuminate the way forward.

The beacon will occasionally take a branching path that is out of your reach, and you would have to rely on the light from blue and red crystals just as often to progress. This Ludum Dare competition entry is for Windows only. (updated version with save feature)

Browser Game Pick: Tower Climber (Skipmore)

In Tower Climber, a princess has been turned into stone and held captive at the top of a tall tower. And as the hero of the kingdom, it is up to you to save the day by collecting all one hundred gems inside the tower and casting a spell to turn the fair maiden back to her beautiful self again.

This one-button arcade game doesn't get difficult until after the thirtieth floor, when a row of spikes will appear to hurry you on your ascent towards the prize. Monsters have the same petrifying spell that was afflicts the princess, so you'd do well to avoid them or get yourself frozen for a couple of precious seconds.

Browser Game Pick: Labyrinth Hero (Skipmore)

Labyrinth Hero is a bite-sized roguelike game where each floor consists of only two enemies, a treasure chest, a switch and a hidden staircase. You can play with either the keyboard or mouse, but your hero will only travel at half speed because every living creature on the floor will have their turn just after you've made your move. Once you've dispatched both enemies, the movement speed will then be restored back to normal.

Your maximum hit point is increased by one whenever you put down an enemy. If you lose at any stage you can begin from the first floor with your previous hit point stats, simply by selecting yes to the question asked after you've clicked on the play option. There are only ten floors to explore, and the quest is completed once you've discovered the magical crystal ball somewhere in the final level.

Browser Game Pick: Synopsis Quest (Skipmore)

Synopsis Quest is a collection of puzzle and arcade-based side quests, where the hero can be trying to save a princess in one minute and attempting to loot treasure from the enemy's lair in the next. You are free to play the missions in any order, although nothing new is unlocked even after you've beaten all seven of them.

Indie Game Pick: Little Space Duo (Jugilus)

In Little Space Duo, you play as a young girl named Lucy who was captured by an alien cargo ship after being wrongly mistaken for an Earth specimen. She befriends a small robot on the ship (which she nicknamed Sunny), and the both of them set out to fix things and find a way to send Lucy back to where she came from.

Players have to switch between both characters frequently throughout the game in order to solve some of the more difficult puzzles. Cargo robots that patrol the corridors must be avoided, else you risk being transported back to the start of the level and having all of your good work up to that point undone.

Save points can be found in certain areas as well, and they come in very handy whenever you feel the need to experiment with a couple of possible solutions for any puzzle segments.

There are five levels to play in this beta demo version. (source)       

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