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 [...]
Even More Indie Games You Should Know
Posted by inpheaux on May 8th, 2006 at 1:07 amWelcome to the first columnar edition of Indie Games You Should Know, our monthly collection of Independent Games we feel you should be made aware of. Indie Game Awareness is important, because while yes, there are zillions of commercial videogames out there begging for you to play them, they aren't generally free or cheap. And [...]
Official Out of this World remake out this Friday
Posted by inpheaux on April 12th, 2006 at 11:01 pm15 years after the original release, and an untold number of ports later to every platform under the sun, Out of this World (or Another World if you're from foreign parts) is coming back to the PC. Earlier today (or yesterday, or tomorrow, or something. Damn you, timezones!) Out of this World's creator, Eric Chahi, [...]