The Cave borrows from and is inspired by one of the oldest and most popular gaming genres. This comes as no surprise since its creator, Ron Gilbert, is also the mind behind some of the genre’s standout titles like Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island. Fans of adventure games are likely full of [...]
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Retro City Rampage (Xbox 360) Review
Retro City Rampage is a difficult game to describe. Only an hour into the top-down shooter, players will be running over pedestrians on the streets of Theftropolis, jumping through pipes like Mario and working with an 8-bit version of Solid Snake. If that’s too many video games rolled into one, there’s more. Retro City Rampage [...]
Fez Going Multiplatform in 2013
The popular Xbox Live Arcade indie game Fez will finally be coming to additional platforms in 2013, according to a post by creator Phil Fish on the Polytron website. No details on what platforms Fez will be ported to have been given. The blog post was a look back at 2012 and forward to 2013 [...]
New Game Releases: December 16-22
This week’s video game releases include: a return to a much-loved PlayStation classic with Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD, more fun with the whole family with Kinect Party, an arcade-style dungeon-crawler with Labyrinth Legends, and a new challenge with Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD – PS Vita Resurrecting the much-loved 2005 original, [...]
New Game Releases: December 9-15
This week’s game releases include a dark fantasy side-scrolling adventure with Black Knight Sword. Black Knight Sword – XBLA Delve into the dark world of Black Knight Sword, where a dark knight must follow a sword fairy through a dynamic world in order to unravel the mystery surrounding his past. Featuring retro-style side-scrolling, Black Knight [...]
Pid (Xbox 360) Review
Poor Kurt. He just wants to go home. Too bad he’s going to have to die hundreds of times to get there. Welcome to the world of Pid (or Planet in Distress), a unique puzzle-platformer with a charming aesthetic and an often brutal difficulty. In Pid, players take on the role of Kurt, a child [...]
Zombie Driver HD (Xbox 360) Review
Zombies have been a persistent pop culture phenomenon since George Romero’s 1968 classic, Night of the Living Dead. Not only have the undead been chronicled in films, they’ve had their fair share of appearances in television, books, and, of course, video games. Zombie Driver HD (ZDHD) approaches the zombie genre from a slightly different angle, [...]
Minecraft Adventure Update Available on Xbox Live
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is finally receiving update 1.8.2, also known as the Adventure Update, today. The Adventure Update is a game-changing update that will change the course of the game. It adds a creative mode, hunger, new mobs, new biomes, new food and the ability to sprint. A tweet by port developer 4J Studios [...]
NiGHTS into Dreams (Xbox 360) Review
It’s weird to say that I’ve finally played NiGHTS into Dreams. Sixteen years ago I wanted to play the game so bad I could taste it. Not only was NiGHTS colorful and unique but it just looked fun to play. But, sadly, I was never able to play it. As much as I wanted my [...]
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit (Xbox 360) Review
I know, I had the same reaction to title of this game. Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit? That has to be a joke right? Well this new platformer from Sega definitely does not take itself seriously. From the hilarious premise, to the “not so useful tips” found on the loading screens; this game [...]
