Category Archives: video games

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Vinyl Fantasy 7

Shepard.

Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell

TechCrunch has a great article up exposing free 2 play microtransaction abuse titled Scamville .

Critter Crunch Review: A Rainbow of Barf on your HDTV

Capybara Games has provided me with a review copy of their first foray into the Playstation Network’s waters. A port of the original iPhone/iPod Touch release with some more content, how does this version of Critter Crunch stack up? First off, when you boot the game you’re welcomed by Capybara’s “mascot” (so to speak) for [...]

Hook Champ Preview

Rocketcat Games has been running a pre-release adhoc beta of Hook Champ. It is an 8-bit style side-scroller with very simple touch controls. You’re an infamous adventurer that starts each mission by swapping out a fancy idol for a fake one, of course it never works and you’re left to run away with your treasure. [...]

Left 4 Dead 2 “Banned” In Australia

So the word is that the gamers in Australia are effectively being “Lef t 4 Dead” when it comes to the new zombie shoot-em-up of the same name, Left 4 Dead 2. My only question is, does this prevent them from obtaining it via Steam? Is it only banned in stores / box versions? The [...]

BEST MOD EVAR

YouTube – RELEASE Half-Life2: All sounds replaced with my voice. You are stupid if you don’t like this. I’m not kidding. STUPID!!!

TARDIS MAME Console

Spelunky 1.0

Fantastic news for my fellow Spelunkers, since our last update Derek Yu has released version 1.0 of Spelunky. It is still a wonderful blend of nethack and Rick Dangerous, and it is still free. Now it has some extra bug fixes and will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade in the future. Go try the [...]

BF2 Patch 1.50 Released

Stay Sharp, Stay Logical, Stay Supreme The patch is available from numerous sites but they’ve allocated so little bandwidth to this 2GB file that I was reduced to tears, until I remembered these guys. For some of you, this will be the first time you’ve used a file-sharing program for a completely legal purpose, so [...]

Battlefield 1.50 Coming on September 1

In an almost ridiculous display of generosity from the company who most people would probably have previously pegged as the most greedy, EA and DICE are releasing version 1.50 of Battlefield 2 with all of the booster packs included (though not the Special Forces expansion) on September 1st. Check out the huge list of changes [...]

Falcon 4.0: Allied Force Review

Falcon 4.0: Allied Force is the definition of depth when it comes to the interactive experience of combat flight. All declassified features of Lockheed Martin’s F-16 are fully controllable and functional, you won’t turn anything off or on that doesn’t affect some function of your jet. Your responsibilities range from controlling the flow of your [...]

Fallout LARPers

vault13: Fallout 2009 «Ничто человеческое».

Dance Like You’ve Got Ham in Your Pants

This ridiculous title via the old PR copy and paste, all emphasis mine: Data Design Interactive Signs distribution deal with Midway Games… Stourbridge, UK, 24th June 2009. Data Design Interactive Ltd – a successful video games publisher and games developer, today announced that it has signed a deal with Midway Games Inc who will distribute [...]