The Worms series is back again with Worms Revolution – looking better than ever with the same quirkiness that the franchise is known for. All the classic weapons are back with some new friends, giving your little worm soldiers the armory they need. This along with the robust tutorial will be great if you’re new to turn-based earth eater warfare. While Worms sticks to a tried and true formula it does shake things up a bit. New customization options for your dirt-dwelling cannon-fodder can give them an appearance other than their usual naked selves. My personal favorite is the option
Dishonored – Review
Dishonored is a Victorian/Steampunk immersive experience (or game if you will) that takes players to a strange and mysterious land and drops them inside the body of Corvo Attano. As Corvo you are betrayed, imprisoned, manipulated and turned into an expert stealth assassin with the ability to wield creative weapons and magical items. Arkane Studios, Bethesda & ZeniMax all helped bring the excellent experience that is Dishonored to life. It is a first person action game with tons of stealth-play, character interaction, mystery, suspense and intrigue. Dishonored is insanely unique and fun to play and no two gameplay experiences will be the
Naughty Bear Panic in Paradise – Preview
We got some hands-on time with Naughty Bear Panic in Paradise this week and came away wanting to play more! Panic in Paradise is a sequel to Naughty Bear – a third person action game that saw a retail release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 a few years back. This time around Naught Bear is a downloadable game and will only run you $15 on either XBLA or PSN but don’t let the price tag fool you as game developers promise that the game is dramatically larger in size then the original! Naughty Bear Panic in Paradise has
Top Five (Recent) CARTOON-Based Games
Books turn into movies. Movies are turned in to games. Television shows are made onto movies. A book into mini-series. Video game into television shows. This is the nature of our entertainment. Cannibalistic, symbiotic, incestual? That’s a matter of perspective. On the subject of perspectives, these are the five best cartoon based video games in recent memory. Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension – Phineas and Ferb is an action game designed for kids released in 2011. It makes the list because it perfectly represent the new generation of children’s games. Games made for kids by people that seem to
Dragon’s Lair XBLA Review & Gameplay
Dragon’s Lair is out now on the Xbox 360 – in full HD glory – re-mastered and…..KINECT enabled. For those of us (like me) old enough to remember this 1983 arcade classic – playing Dragon’s Lair on an Xbox 360 is quite a trip down memory lane. So here’s the Dragon’s Lair concept in a nutshell – Dirk the Daring must save the sexy princess Daphne from the clutches of an evil dragon named Singe. If you went into an arcade during the early 1980s you were surrounded by bleeps and blips on every coin-operated machine. Games were limited by
Awesomenauts – Review
Ronimo has crafted a funny, fantastical, cartoonish multiplayer battle arena. And they’ve titled it Awesomenauts. Apparently drawing inspiration from the glory days of Saturday morning cartoons the playable characters, or Awesomenauts, are some crazy folks; featuring a French assassin lizard, a brain in a jar, a space cowboy (I call him Maurice), and a jet packing monkey. Oh yes, the nauts are awesome. Awesomenauts has 2D arenas with enough vertical platform jumping to keep them strategically interesting and stave off the boredom of the side-scrolling nature of the game. Each of the three arenas has unique environmental hazards and hidden
Skullgirls – Review and Gameplay
Skullgirls hype has been coming for a long time and now the game is finally out and ready for you to download and play at home! Skullgirls is a 2D fighting game featuring an all female cast for the Xbox 360 (XBLA) and PlayStation 3 (PSN) and on portable systems in 2013. The game is deep and rich in character design and traits. We first got our hands on the game last summer during Anime Expo and enjoyed what we saw then again at GDC in 2012. Skullgirls is a good representation of what a cartoon would look like if
World Gone Sour – Review
World Gone Sour, a new platforming game based on the Sour Patch Kids candy marketing campaign, was released this week on XBLA and PSN. Developed by Playbrains and published by Capcom Entertainment Inc., World Gone Sour allows gamers to take control of a rogue piece of Sour Patch Kids candy that has fallen to the floor during its mission to get eaten alive, presumably for the fun of it. So long as you can deal with the masochistic tendencies of these candies come to life and the overtly creepy voiceover work by Creed Bratton of the American adaptation of The
The Splatters – Review
I know many gamers don’t get The Splatters until after their third Doritos Locos Taco, but thankfully the new XBLA downloadable title of the same name is much more fun… and much less messy. Developed by SpikySnail Games, The Splatters is a new action puzzle title that lets players fling the aptly named amiable blobs of goo known as “Splatters” around the screen using physic-bending gameplay for an undeniably fun time. As the levels progress, so do your special abilities – and then things get really interesting. There’s a bit of a learning curve when it comes to controlling the
Anomaly Warzone Earth XBLA – Review
Titles like Anomaly: Warzone Earth from 11 bit studios make me second guess all those years I scoffed at PC gaming aside from long MMO sessions. This fun and frantic real time strategy game was originally released on Windows and Mac back in 2011, and plays like an addictive, action-packed reverse tower defense game. Set in the near future, players take the role of the squad leader of the 14th Battalion- the last hope of saving Earth from an alien inv… Wait, what? You say you’re over the tower defense fad… …not into sci-fi? … and haven’t picked up an
