Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth preview posted
Posted by inpheaux on October 18th, 2006 at 12:20 amQuick update here before wrapping up for the day: we've got another in-depth interview/preview posted and ready for consumption. It's for an upcoming indie PC game - Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth. It's a fan game, an homage to LucasArts SCUMM-based adventure games of years past, and thus far it's really shaping [...]
Sam & Max’s triumphant return to gaming now available
Posted by inpheaux on October 17th, 2006 at 10:40 amAs promised, the long-awaited new Sam & Max game will be available today. Unfortunately, it's temporarily exclusive to the North-America-Only GameTap subscription gaming service thing. Their exclusivity ends on 1 NOV 2006, when you'll be able to buy the first episode straight from TellTale Games' website. This means you won't be seeing a review of [...]
New batch of games available on Steam
Posted by inpheaux on September 14th, 2006 at 3:31 pmIt seems like every other week Valve is hopping in bed with some new publisher or developer to push their stuff out via Steam. And to think that some people said online delivery via Steam would never take off. First it was X2 and X3 popping up without Starforce, then Popcap dumping all their games [...]
Sad news of the day: HL2:E2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal pushed to FEB 2007
Posted by inpheaux on August 24th, 2006 at 7:39 pmWe probably should have all seen this one coming. If it was just one game, we'd be expecting a Winter 2006 release, but now it's coming with Team Fortress 2 and Portal, two amazing must-buy games in their own right that I'd really like them to take their time on. Plus there's the whole "Simultaneous [...]
Guitar Hero 2: Two more songs announced, plus weird stuff [Update!]
Posted by inpheaux on August 22nd, 2006 at 8:33 pmThe Guitar Hero 2 news keeps trickling in. In addition to the 11 tracks we knew about already, today we've got #12: Guns 'n Roses - Sweet Child of Mine. Gamespot's got a video of it. The vocal track sounds kinda off, but at least it isn't as bad as the cover of Trippin on [...]
DPad sorta goes to SIGGRAPH 2006
Posted by King_Andy on August 5th, 2006 at 6:59 pmThis year the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGGRAPH convention was on the East coast for the first time in about a decade, thereby enabling me to attend it. SIGGRAPH-the-organization is a subset of the ACM, specifically the "Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques". Every year they hold a nice big convention (also [...]
5 New Reviews (Seriously!)
Posted by inpheaux on July 12th, 2006 at 12:45 amYes. We've been sitting on these. Some of them for quite awhile. We're sorry about that, but again would like to blame E3 and Oblivion.
So here's what we've got:
1) Tetris DS - A great game you should already have by now.
2) Metroid Prime Hunters - A somewhat disappointing game you should have already finished and [...]
Tetris clone “Quinn” comes under fire
Posted by inpheaux on July 10th, 2006 at 12:45 pmOh, Tetris. Why does such a wonderful game have to have such horrible litigious maintainers? For anyone unaware of the bizarre twisted past of Tetris, go read the short history on Wikipedia. Effectively, the rights to the game have changed hands roughly 800 times, thanks to being developed in the Soviet Union, and being such [...]
Another Set of Indie Games You Should Know
Posted by pmglasser on July 5th, 2006 at 10:17 pmFor the sixth issue of Indie Games You Should Know, I'll be reviewing a couple fun and interesting products. My love for classic board games and military history is evident in the games I selected for my first column here. Anybody who loves to play Risk, Stratego or Axis and Allies will enjoy Lux Delux. [...]
Rock Out on PC: Freetar Hero b1 released
Posted by inpheaux on May 19th, 2006 at 7:58 pmEarlier this week, a video surfaced on the internet, as videos often do. It showed off an upcoming product entitled "Freetar Hero", a Guitar Hero clone and "level" editor. No release date was given, but we were told that the editor would come first.
Well, the editor is out now. Good news: it's pretty awesome. Bad [...]