Not even a nasty cold will prevent Jesse from letting you watch him play.
It’s pure action and excitement as Jesse hands out home decorating and fashion tips, and shoots up a house to try and make himself feel better.
What’s that? You’re really tired of waggling and would like do some button mashing now? Well lucky for you we’ve got just the thing you need in today’s XBLIG Update. Hell, as if that wasn’t enough, we even have a game that looks like it is worth playing to boot! You know the drill, all descriptions of these games are that of the developer and our comments will be STRONG!!
Shake! |
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Shake! – Just bash the buttons & spin the sticks and send your Cola Can through the stratosphere.
Developer: squarebananas Price: 80 Microsoft Points You mash the buttons and your soda zooms off, delivering its CO2 payload directly to all layers of the atmosphere. Seriously, that’s all though. Should have at least gone with the beer angle, at least then you could have gotten the drunks to part with their hard earned, stolen, or borrowed dollar. On the bright side, “squarebanana” is a hilarious name. |
Dysnomia |
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Your ship has made an emergency landing near the mining outpost on Dysnomia. All attempts to make contact with the base have failed. Your mission: Repair your ship and find out what happened here. A fast-paced futuristic shooter with exploration and survival elements.
Developer: Team Mango Price: 240 Microsoft Points This one is looking decent, I actually played through the demo and decided to buy it. So we’ll see how the full version goes. Be sure took for a full review in the future. |
Wolfire Games, creators of upcoming rabbit combat game Overgrowth, are known for the fantastic personal support system. Especially after their pre-order push was such a success. As such John Graham, who handles not only programming of the game but also a bulk of chat support, regularly posts about strange or hilarious messages he’s received. Today is no exception.
Read more at Wolfire: Enough about you, let’s talk about Meebo
Oh man Thursday, it’s not quite Friday but oh so close. There is a pretty good chance you are doing one of two things right now, either day dreaming about Stripper Chewy or watching the NCAA Tournament in a browser window the boss doesn’t know you have open. Whichever the case may be, we both know you aren’t working. Fortunately, I have a third, better, option for you today, a browser based platformer called Redder.
You’re an astronaut whose jalopy ship has malfunctioned and forced an emergency landing on an alien world. It’s now your job to gather up a buncha crystals to power your ship. Redder is the latest game developed by Anna Anthropy and is pretty amusing, so go score some rock.
It’s update time and this go round we’ve got six new titles for you. It’s the usual deal, all descriptions are that of the developer and our comments will be in bold. Enjoy!
The Spirit Box |
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The Spirit Box is a tool for communicating with the other side. Open your mind, and let the spirits move your hands. Host a spirit party, and pass the controller around. The results will amaze you…
Developer: Tyrathect Price: 80 Microsoft Points Yeah you probably don’t want this. Unless of course you enjoy purposelessly waggling your thumb stick. But what do I know all I did was waggle through the demo. Waggle box, thats what it should have been called. waggle.. |
Masters of Belial |
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Masters of Belial is an arena type action rpg game that takes place in the ancient fantasy land of Azgoth.
Developer: Argi Baltzi Price: 400 Microsoft Points This one looks pretty interesting, the screens show some fairly high production quality. I may need to break into my Microsoft Point Piggy Bank. |
Euphorium |
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70-levels of chain-reaction, orb-blasting fun!
Developer: Brian Wilbur Price: 80 Microsoft Points So, this one looks a lot, really really lot, like Danny Miller’s Boomshine(free) with a little more bells and whistles. If the demo is any indication as to the rest of the game, I’d say it has lost the relaxing feeling that made Boomshine so enjoyable. |
Dark Seal |
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The dark lord has fallen. The remaining dark wizards gathered, near of the last power : the dark seal. If they survive, the strongest wizard will become the new dark lord. Cooperate, with the five other wizards in order to save the seal. But play against them to become the new dark Lord! Playable up to four players.
Developer: laurent goethals Price: 80 Microsoft Points |
Avatar Street Basketball |
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Shoot hoops with your avatar to be the best scorer across the world in four different game modes and five difficulty levels. Many stages in the whole world are waiting for you.
Developer: theHans Price: 80 Microsoft Points |
Catch Me If You Can |
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Run, jump, vault and slide your way to catching the best free runner in the world!
Developer: Silver Dollar Games 2 Price: 80 Microsoft Points I’m usually ready to call whatever Silver Dollar Games comes out with “Shovelware” at first sight, but I may actually go and demo this one. |
Penny-Arcade and their convention, PAX, have a pretty solid history of giving back to not just communities and gamers, but to start up indie developers as well. This tradition lives on in continuance with its latest announcement of the PAX East Boston Indie Showcase Winners. These local(to Boston) developers will have the opportunity to showcase their games on the show floor of PAX free of charge, which otherwise may not have been possible. So without further stalling for time, the winners are:
The winning entries are:
- Slam Bolt Scrappers – Fire Hose Games – A unique combination of engaging in building challenges while fighting off wacky, cartoon baddies in a beat ‘em up brawler
- AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – Dejobaan Games – Jump off buildings floating above Boston performing stunts and making split-second decisions as you weave around buildings to score points
- Dearth – MIT Gambit Game Lab – Save the Tribal Lands from monsters and drought playing as a great shaman in this exciting co-operative action-puzzler
- Waker – MIT Gambit Game Lab – Players are challenged to use both mind and reflexes to solve puzzles, creating platforms to form a path in this puzzle/platform game set in the world of a child’s broken dream
- Turba – Keith Morgado – A puzzle game where each song played will generate unique game boards on which players much create combos of 3 or more of the same color
- Miegakure – Marc ten Bosch – A platform game where you explore the fourth dimension to solve puzzles.
Twisted Pixel, the indipendent developer behind the critically acclaimed Splosion Man, had a chance to debut some of their latest game while at SXSW and it’s looking pretty good. The game looks to be a 2D side scrolling brawler with a case of the funnies.
Comic Jumper is expected to be making a PAX East appearance at 1PM, 3PM, and 5PM. So if you happen to be one of the lucky bastards going, go get yourself an eye full and then come back and brag about it.
Check out the video and screenshots below!
source: Destructoid.com
There’s a trailer out for Ben Chandler and Steven Poulton’s collaboratively crated game, Winter’s Shadow. The adventure game is anticipating a Summer 2010 release. There isn’t a whole lot of details out other then that! On a side note, I really dig the environments and backgrounds. I’m still undecided whether I like the character art or not.
source: Indiegames.com
Nicklas Nygren’s puzzle platformer, Saira, is now available through Steam. The game features six star systems, sixty puzzles , six unique ending, and over two hours of original music. Here is a little more detail regarding the games lead character and its features:
The eponymous Saira is a photographer who specializes in digitally capturing dangerous places and animals across the universe. For reasons unknown, she finds herself as the only remaining person in the entire galaxy. Saira has no weapons, she will use only her mind and agility to progress through seven star systems and over 60 well-crafted puzzles. Over two hours of originally-scored music will help her maintain focus and unlock one of six vastly unique endings.
- Over 60 well-crafted puzzels.
- A universe full of surprising creatures and locations for you to explore.
- 11 layers of high definition parallax scrolling and a two hour soundtrack gives the universe of Saira it’s unique atmosphere.
- Non-linear gameplay
- Multiple endings
The environments look amazing and it sounds pretty good to boot, so I’m probably going to need to check this one out. I’m also really digging the whole camera mechanic, like pokemon snap in space!
The game rings up at $8.99 so don’t convert this weeks paycheck to Microsoft Tiddlywinks just yet.
Is it too late to say NSFW? I guess not, if you consider Chewy was naked the whole movie. In any event there is a brand spanking new round of Star Wars Burlesque featuring Chewy, C3PO, R2D2, an Imperial Officer, and my favorite Storm Trooper. Speaking of which, I’m not sure where they gathered the DNA to clone that one, but kudos are in order. Check out all the picks here.