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Review: Swarm
Swarm’s menu screen should tell you everything you need to know about the game. It is gleefully sadistic in how it forces you to murder hundreds of blue critters, and it ensures that you take joy in every aspect of …
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Review: Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime
There are few things I truly love in this world. Ghostbusters is on that list. I’ve been excited like a little kid since the announcement of this game. Does busting still make me feel good? After installing this title, the …
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Review: Slam Bolt Scrappers
Not since the Street Sharks chomped their way into our hearts in the mid-nineties has such a jawsome junction of ideas made its way onto our TV screens. On March 15th, Fire Hose Games released their flagship title, Slam Bolt …
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Review: HOARD (PSP)
Dragons are cool. It is an unassailable fact of existence. Knowing this, Vancouver-based Big Sandwich Games could have easily phoned in any generic dragon game and hoped for a quick buck. Instead they gave us HOARD, an action arcade-strategy (“stratecade”) …
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Review – Ricochet HD
Ricochet HD is a PSN version of a brick breaking game from 2004, which saw release as a web game and on various PDA’s. I’m not sure who decided that the time had come to give the game an HD …
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Review: Back to the Future Episode 1 – It’s About Time
Telltale appears to have episodic gaming down to a fine science. With episode 1, you set the scene, and attempt to draw the player in with a mixture of fun, approachable gameplay, along with the appearance of a clever storyline. …
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Review: Stacking
Stacking is ludicrous. At one point, I took control of a boxer, and proceeded to decapitate tiger standees, in order to close down a perfectly harmless safari. To say that the game encourages creative problem solving would be to do …
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Review – Tales From Space: About A Blob
“You play as a sort of gelatinous blob. You can eat anything smaller than you, and when you do, you grow, so you can eat bigger things.” This is how I described Tales From Space: About A Blob to my …
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Review: Spare Parts
Spare Parts… is uneven. That’s honestly the best way of describing it. For every moment of fun, there’s an equal part frustration thrown in to the mix. For every time you and your co-op buddy hi-five each other for health, …
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Review: echochrome ii
Echochrome ii hates you. It wants you to fail, and when you do, it mocks you for it. This isn’t a game to play when you want something easy; this is a game you play when you want a real …
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Review: Swarm
Swarm’s menu screen should tell you everything you need to know about the game. It is gleefully sadistic in how it forces you to murder hundreds of blue critters, and it ensures that you take joy in every aspect of …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime
There are few things I truly love in this world. Ghostbusters is on that list. I’ve been excited like a little kid since the announcement of this game. Does busting still make me feel good? After installing this title, the …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: Slam Bolt Scrappers
Not since the Street Sharks chomped their way into our hearts in the mid-nineties has such a jawsome junction of ideas made its way onto our TV screens. On March 15th, Fire Hose Games released their flagship title, Slam Bolt …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: HOARD (PSP)
Dragons are cool. It is an unassailable fact of existence. Knowing this, Vancouver-based Big Sandwich Games could have easily phoned in any generic dragon game and hoped for a quick buck. Instead they gave us HOARD, an action arcade-strategy (“stratecade”) …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review – Ricochet HD
Ricochet HD is a PSN version of a brick breaking game from 2004, which saw release as a web game and on various PDA’s. I’m not sure who decided that the time had come to give the game an HD …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: Back to the Future Episode 1 – It’s About Time
Telltale appears to have episodic gaming down to a fine science. With episode 1, you set the scene, and attempt to draw the player in with a mixture of fun, approachable gameplay, along with the appearance of a clever storyline. …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: Stacking
Stacking is ludicrous. At one point, I took control of a boxer, and proceeded to decapitate tiger standees, in order to close down a perfectly harmless safari. To say that the game encourages creative problem solving would be to do …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review – Tales From Space: About A Blob
“You play as a sort of gelatinous blob. You can eat anything smaller than you, and when you do, you grow, so you can eat bigger things.” This is how I described Tales From Space: About A Blob to my …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: Spare Parts
Spare Parts… is uneven. That’s honestly the best way of describing it. For every moment of fun, there’s an equal part frustration thrown in to the mix. For every time you and your co-op buddy hi-five each other for health, …
+
Read More
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Review: echochrome ii
Echochrome ii hates you. It wants you to fail, and when you do, it mocks you for it. This isn’t a game to play when you want something easy; this is a game you play when you want a real …
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Read More