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23rd  of November 2008

Halo Wars controls better than a PC RTS, according to The  lead designer Graeme Devine.  Right!! More

Win an iPod with Jumpgate beta.  More

Three new downloadable expansion pack for Final Fantasy XI.  Is anyone still playing this game.  More

Harmonix sued over flimsy foot pedal.  More

Wii game a too tame.  More

 

My greatest creation is completed.  I tried to make a dance song with a rock influence.  I hope you all like it.  It's called GNR Sucks and can be obtained here.  More

 

GameSetWatch has a really interesting article on whether or not 2D has a place in today's gaming world.  It's called The Quandary Of 2D Vs. 3D.  More

This is an interesting article on Fable 2 and whether or not it is as good as promised, amongst other things.  More

 

22nd of November 2008

Sony are releasing two PSP bundles, with two free games in Europe.  More

LocoRoco 2 trials on PSN network.  If you have not tried it yet and own a PSP, here's your chance to try it for free.  More

A new batch of invitations for Home on the Playstation network will be going out soon and it's allegedly 100,000.  More

Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009.  More

Here's a trailer recommended by beezn; thanks dude.  New X-Men Trailer: Days Of Future.  More

I have added another song called One more time.  More

XBOX Live Community Games: Biology Battle!

 

Biology Battle is a unique take on the classic space shooter genre. Take control of medical nano-bots during its mission inside of its target cell.

The game takes the best aspects of the “shmup” genre, including 360 degree movement and firing, and revolutionizes the action with a truly HD experience, so players can fight off an onslaught of enemies with precision and clarity. Biology Battle’s full version includes single player modes and 10 brand new multiplayer versus games, including Turrets, Survival, Lasso, Wire Cycle, and Frog Hop. Also, the competitive players can compete online for the highest score.

Biology Battle is about avoiding the cell’s defences, and survive long enough to complete your mission. And then? Well, let’s just say it gets a bit nastier.

More Playstation one games to appear no PSN soon.  More

FIFA online 2 client is available to download from Gamershell for the PC and weighs in at 775 MB.  More

Freeware App Pick: theRelativity (Jun Fujiki)

 
Untitled from cave on Vimeo.

TheRelativity is a funky little 3D application created by the developer of OLE Coordinate System, the engine which SCEJ's Echochrome was originally based on. Virtual characters are now placed inside cubes instead of above them, and selecting any of the four modes will affect the shape of the corridors from the autonomous character's view.

The original mode resembles Echochrome and OLE Coordinate System the most, while translation mode works by joining up two cubes at the exact moment a character moves from one cube to another. Deformation mode attempts to draw the connecting corridors in 3D global view to reflect the actual pathway taken by the virtual character, while impossible object mode will draw impossible shapes in the style of M. C. Escher's artworks to connect corridors, even when such a shape could not exist in natural form. You can quickly switch between modes by using the F1 to F4 function keys as well.

Name: TheRelativity
Developer: Jun Fujiki
Category: Application
Type: Freeware
Size: 1MB
Direct download link: Click here

Xmen Origins: Wolverine, The OFFICIAL Trailer!  More

Do you want a $199.99 Playstation 3?  That is one of the choices on Amazon.com at the moment.  More

Activision have called of the forth coming sale of Lego Star Wars games,  without giving a reason for doing so.  More

Browser Game Pick: Pragaras (Jurgis and Teshla)

From the development team that gave us Menulis and Miestas comes Pragaras, a new 2D exploration game with more confusing and beguiling elements than its predecessors. Players can now shift between two different forms by using the briefcase icon, an action which is necessary in order to solve some of the puzzles in this adventure.

Use the cursor keys to move, press the Z key to to review your inventory items and hold the X key to interact with people or objects which are close to your character. Note that the game contains imagery which may be considered disturbing by some. (walkthrough)

Name: Pragaras
Developers: Jurgis and Teshla
Category: Adventure
Type: Browser

A new 2D shoot em up will be released on the Dreamcast and that is a big thing to me.  The title is called Dux and here is a link to the website.  More. Below is a video of the game in action. 

The game itself is scheduled for December this year and will feature

6 stages filled with space alien scum and hazardly threats

3 upgradeble weapon types

Upgradeable force device

Multiple checkpoints within each stage

Super smooth high-resolution CGI visuals

Up to 3 loops with different difficulties

Risk & Reward scoring system

VGA support

Dux, A Dreamcast 2D shoot em up

 

 

21st of November 2008

BattleForge is looking at creating a MMO.  More

SquareEnix believes that the "one-console market is over".  More

All music on iTunes will go DRM free.  More

Square Enix La is working on downloadable games.  More

GTA 4 picture editor on the PC.  More

Freeware Game Pick: Paper Moon (Infinite Ammo)

Paper Moon is a short platformer which lasts for only five minutes, featuring artwork by the developer of Nano and Gravity Hook. In it, players run through a couple of small levels in search of apples, bananas and cherries for points before time runs out.

Use the arrow keys to move, press the space key to jump and tap the X key to bring objects to the foreground or background. The O, P, K and L keys can be used to adjust the 3D effects. Hold the Left Alt and F4 key to quit with immediate effect.

Name: Paper Moon
Developers: Infinite Ammo, Adam Saltsman
Category: Platformer
Type: Freeware
Platform: Windows, Mac
Size: 20MB
Direct download link: Click here

Freeware Game Pick: Night of the Cephalopods

Night of the Cephalopods is a short action game created for the Artsy Games Incubator project, where players assume control over a man who is hounded by Lovecraftian creatures of the octopi type. Contact with these horrors causes your character to lose a little of his sanity, although mental health can be automatically restored by standing still in one spot for a few seconds.

Use the cursor keys to move, and press the space key to fire your shotgun or reload it. The game ends when our hero loses his mind completely, or when you manage to somehow survive until the break of dawn.

Name: Night of the Cephalopods
Developer: Miguel Sternberg
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 10MB
Direct download link: Click here

Sony's 19" Field Emission Display monitor running at 240 FPS.  More

Prism Guard Shield id now free and weighs in at almost 1.6 GB.  More

 

20th of November 2008

USB 3.0 is able to transfer 1080p feed at 30 FPS uncompressed and that is astonishing, considering that even Blu-ray is only 24FPS and compressed.  More

Pirates have already cracked the system checks on Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS.  More

I wouldn't be surprised if Doom has been made for a calculator somewhere.  Here is a link to WiiDoom.  More

You loose George Romero!  Capcom found to have not copied his movie series.  More

ELSPA (the equivalent to the ESRB) has clamped down on another modder in the UK and found £16,000 of counterfeit goods.  More

The names Black Beard

Sony have to pay eighteen million dollars over patent infringement. The infringement was over some wireless local area network apparatus (whatever that is).  I think it's just another company wanting to get paid.  More

To celebrate Half Life's ten year anniversary, Valve is selling the game on steem for 98 cents.  More

EA and Gillette have got together to have a competition in sports games and are offering prizes to the winners. (US residents only).  If you are game, you can check this link out.  More

Google map to Fallout 3 Wasteland

The XBOX 360 has stormed past seven million units in Europe and considering that in June it had only shifted five million, has to considered amazing.  More

Bungie ask the customers to not install Halo 3 onto the hard drive.  They say that the load times are longer when installed on the hard drive than when played from the CD.  More

Screw Attacks top ten games that need to be made

 

Preview: Agatha Ragata (Oxeye Game Studio)

 

high quality video

A platformer in the style of And Yet It Moves, created by the guys who made Harvest: Massive Encounter.

Agatha Ragata (Oxeye Game Studio)

Infinite Ammo on the Road, Gamma3D Entries Revealed

 
Infinite Ammo Video Blog #2 from Infinite Ammo on Vimeo.

Live from the Montreal International Games Summit.

Gamma3D entries (Kokoromi)
Super Hypercube preview (Offworld)

Freeware Game Pick: Loftus and the Sky Cap (Ivan Dixon)

Loftus and the Sky Cap comes as a surprising departure from Ivan's previous works, who happens to be best known for a series of comics and adventure games based on Sydney Claywood and his friends. The story is about an apprentice named Inessa who discovers that her teacher has disappeared without a single trace, so she sets off on an epic journey in hopes of finding the current whereabouts of the great inventor and her adopted father Loftus. (walkthrough)

Name: Loftus and the Sky Cap
Developer: Ivan Dixon
Category: Adventure
Type: Freeware
Size: 20MB
Download page: Click here

 

19th of November 2008

King of the fighters XIII has been announced for the Playstation 3.  More and here is a teaser.  More

Techraidar has the top tem games consoles and includes a few you might not have heard of (although I didn't know that the IBM and Amiga were consoles).  More

There might be a sequel to Boom Blox.  More

Things go from bad to worse for Brash Entertainment.  Two developers are suing them for unpaid work.  More

Sony's not too happy at lacklustre performance of LittleBigPlanet.  More

New zombie Peggle coming out to probably coincide with the release of Left 4 Dead.  More

Championship Gaming Series is no more.  More

Koei and Tecmo finally merge.  More

Netflix looses Sony/Columbia on the verge of the XBOX 360s NXE launch.  More

Sony discusses the possibility of LittleBigPlanet of the PSP.  More

Destructiod has an interview with Nathan Fouts, creator of this interesting looking game below for XNA.  More

A new website has been started that will be devoted exclusively to XNA games and it is called Xnplay.  More

 

18th of November 2008

Will there be another Outrun racing game?  More

Gears of War 2 is to be patched to fix online problems.  More

Sony's PSN network has fourteen million active users.  More

Another Spore patch has been released.  More

File Planet has a add-on pack for Fallout 3, which includes mods and add-ons.  More

 

17th of November 2008

Sony Playstation 3 turns two.  More

Here's an interesting article from CNN.  "A British couple who married in a lavish Second Life wedding ceremony are to divorce after one of them had an alleged affair in the online world."  More

Here's an interview with Dr. James Newman on his views aboutsaving gaming history.  More

Here's a first look at the Prince of Persia movie

 

I choose you Pikachu!

Known as "Pikabellechu," the 32-year-old PikaHolic owns over 8,000 Pikachu goods.

Browser Game Pick: Tracism (i'minlikewithyou)

Tracism is essentially a remake of Pac-Man with a couple of new features such as multiplayer, chat and a waiting lobby. In it, players race to change the color of dots around a maze to their own, all the while attempting to hinder others from doing the same.

Press the space key to drop a bomb, which can be used to destroy other ships, take out ghosts and turn the colour of dots in the vicinity to match yours. You can carry up to a maximum of three bombs at any time. Each match lasts for exactly one minute. (source: Andrew, Ben Ross)

Name: Tracism
Developer: i'minlikewithyou
Category: Action
Type: Browser

Browser Game Pick: Blockles (i'minlikewithyou)

Blockles is a multiplayer Tetris game originally launched on the social networking site i'minlikewithyou way back in 2007, and similar to TetriNET this version allows the use of items to change the course of the game both marginally and drastically.

Item effects include the basic adding or subtracting of lines, scramble or swap screens with another player, and even clear the entire well with the use of a numeral key. All players have a digit next to their user name, hence to use an item on yourself or other participants you would only need to press the key which corresponds to the number they have been assigned with.

Blocks in blue typically signifies beneficial effects, while orange blocks are usually reserved for the purpose of messing up your opponent's tactics and strategies.

Name: Blockles
Developer: i'minlikewithyou
Category: Puzzle, Multiplayer
Type: Browser

Freeware Game Pick: Life of D. Duck II (Audunsoft)

 

Life of D. Duck 2 is a full-length AGS adventure game which has taken nearly three years to develop, featuring a wacky cast of characters to interact with, numerous screens to explore, multiple GUIs, and more than twenty chiptunes for your listening pleasure. The unusual art style and meticulously-animated sprites are the contribution of Bjørnar B, an artist who happens to have an unhealthy obsession with drawing popular Disney characters.

As different as the game looks when compared to other AGS releases, there are only two notable drawbacks to be found here. The graphics will put off many people from even downloading it in the first place, especially when taking the large file size into consideration. The odd font choice can be difficult to read at times, while text descriptions and conversations are riddled with many spelling and grammatical mistakes. But these so-called problems are actually intentional design decisions, evidently demonstrated by the colourful inventory items in your possession, the well-written text manual, a complete walkthrough with zero typos, and the inclusion of a reverse text feature in the options menu. Use the F1 or F5 function key to access this menu or view game statistics.

The full walkthrough can be found in the extras folder, should you require hints on how to solve a particular puzzle.

Name: Life of D. Duck II
Developers: Audun R, Bjornar B
Category: Adventure
Type: Freeware
Size: 70MB

Download page (MediaFire mirror)

 

16th of November 2008

Here's a review of Bangkok Dangerous the movie.  More

Here's an interesting article on gendered violence.  More

Watchman trailer 2 in HD is available at file planet.  More

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 1.04 patch is now available.  More

Rising Eagle: Futuristic Infantry Warfare v1.3.1 Free Full Game.  More Here are some pictures and see below as well.  More

Voice chat patch for Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds. Why is he dressed like a formula 1 driver?  More

NDP numbers for October 2008

 

15th of November 2008

Locoroco 2 Flash game has been  posted on DCEmu.  More

Hudson is planning to resurrect  more old franchises.  More

Ninety percent of World of Goo installs on the PC are pirated.  More

The world economy crisis could be the death nail for the Blu-ray format.  More

Everton Football Club will be using Football Manager 2009 to search for talent.  More

What can PC users expect from the new Games for Windows Live?  More

Street Fighter will be released in Europe in February next year on XBOX 360 and the Playstation 3.  More

Loccoroco 2 Flash Game

 

14th of November 2008

Rumour:  Microsoft Zune to double up as storage for the XBOX 360. You called it first Cooper Hawks! More

Phantasy Star IV is to be released on Virtual Console.  More

Jimi Hendrix music pack is now live for Guitar Hero: World Tour.  More

Persona 2 reprint for the original Playstation is on Amazon's website.  More

Nintendo trademarks everything DS related.  More

Zapper is your next XBOX original release. (who ever that is).  More

Microsoft Zune

Has SquareEnix canned Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles?  Read on.  More

Aquaria Now Out for Mac

Bit Blot's debut release is now available on the Mac, courtesy of the brilliant porting work done by Ambrosia Software. Customers who purchase the Mac release (dubbed version 1.1.0) will find a new world map system with progress recording, wide screen support, an auto updater, user-created markers, location names, changes to the cooking system, a built-in help feature, additional graphics and easier puzzles. The Windows version will be updated with the new changes at a later date. (source)

Aquaria: Mac version (Ambrosia Software)

Indie Games Nominated for Spike TV's 6th Annual VGA

World of Goo, Pixeljunk Eden, Braid and Audiosurf have all been nominated for a Video Game Award (VGA) in the Best Independent Game category, with the results to be announced on Spike TV this coming December 14th.

Fans can head on over to this page and click on the "My Vote" button to cast their votes.

In other news, Amanita Design's Questionaut was also nominated for a British Academy Award (BAFTA) in the Children's Interactive category. (source)

Video Game Awards: Best Independent Game (Spike)

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