Nothing makes my gamer glands glisten quite like a puzzle game. First person shooters and RPGs do arouse me but not quite enough to bring my interest to a peak. Thankfully, one of my favourites has made its way to XBLA and for an outrageous price of 400MSP. Isn’t it just awful that they’ve charged that much? Mercury Hg (that’s [...]
Just over a year ago, a little XBLA game called Shank was released. A cartoon-style combat platformer inspired by the works of Tarantino and Rodriguez, it featured plenty of blades, ultra-bloody attacks, and beer bottles as health pick-ups. Seems like pretty standard gaming fare for the adult grindhouse audience, right? Problem is, the game opened with an disturbing sequence in [...]
Few titles capture the idea of the badass as well as this summer’s action blockbuster, Renegade Ops, available on the XBLA, PSN and Windows platforms. Developed by Avalanche Studios (the same folks that brought us serial ‘blow-up-everything-a-thon’ Just Cause) and published by Sega, this top down, vehicle-based shooter has the potential to be more enjoyable than watching Hans Gruber fall [...]
This was definitely one of the most interesting XBLA games we’ve seen recently. It’s yet another game based on waves of attackers but this time you rely on strategic use of traps and the environment to prevail against your enemies. Choose from a variety of traps, kil them with your crossbow or shoot out the chandelier to make sure those [...]
Battlefield 3: The beta for Battlefield 3 was announced today. It will start on 29th September 2011 on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. More beta details on the Battlefield site. Nintendo eShop: Popular iOS title, Cut The Rope is available on the 3DS through the Nintendo eShop this week. Also releasing: Anonymous Notes Chapter 2 – From The Abyss (Try [...]
On the day that witnessed the final launch of the Space Shuttle program, what better way to end it than with some top gaming news. Eric Chahi, Naughty Dog’s Lead Game Designer Richard Lemarchand and thatgamecompany’s Robin Hunicke will all be presenting their games at this year’s Gamecity 6 videogames festival which takes place in Nottingham between 25th – 29th [...]
The Undergarden is a cutesy and absorbing single player puzzler for the PC. This one definitely fits into the casual gamer area. Imagine if you will a garden underneath the earth and you are a creature that looks somewhat like a tiny version of Shrek. Floating in a cave, you control this creature with the goal of causing the plants [...]
We play little multiplayer here at The Average Gamer. As I’m rediscovering through Dead Rising 2′s Terror is Reality minigames, I simply don’t have the patience to sit around for 10 minutes waiting for a match to start. I have even less patience when the connection dies halfway through and kicks me, or half the team ragequit when they aren’t [...]
Following hot on the heels of Alien Breed Evolution on the Xbox 360 comes Alien Breed 2: Assault. Developed by Team 17 (using the Unreal 3 Engine) who have been responsible for every Alien Breed game to date, Alien Breed 2: Assault: finds the player taking control of Conrad, Chief Engineer aboard the dying ship Leopold and continuing his fight [...]
Here is the trailer for the latest instalment of the Alien Breed series of games. This one will be available on Xbox Live Arcade and PC (via Steam) from the 22nd Sep 2010.
So readers, tell me about this Western-theme XBLA game, Shank. A big chunk of my Twitter Games feed was talking about it at launch, so I downloaded the demo. Not impressed. It looks to me like a bog-standard 2-D beat-em-up scroller with some fancy blood effects and humourous rape thrown in. [BTW, that last link is a very serious article. [...]
New official website launched for XBLA action game Deathspank. Also see @Deathspank, @Eubrick_Retired and @LordVonProng
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