Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

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    Xbox Live Down For Maintenance
    As a courtesy reminder to all of our readers please keep in mind that Xbox Live will be down for the majority of Tuesday. Microsoft sent out messages over XBox Live recently and Major Nelson has also addressed it on his blog. Xbox Live is going to be down for up to twenty four hours as Microsoft upgrades the service and prepares it to deliver all of that content they...
    by Brandon Hofer at June 16th, 2009 at 04:06 pm
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    R-Type Dimensions
    Whenever you see those “best games in the history of gaming” lists, you hardly ever see shoot ‘em ups. Yet, for a glorious period in the early to mid eighties, shoot ‘em ups were the staple fare of youngsters who spent far too little time concentrating on their homework, and far too much time lounging around in seedy arcades blasting the living pixels out of army after...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 15th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
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    Gaming for the Adrenalin Junkie
    Experience the rush of reaching a final table at a major poker tournament, where the prize money reaches 6 figures and you need nerves of steel to keep your cool. Certainly not for the faint-hearted when your own money is at stake.  Poker games for all kinds of players from experienced pros to beginners starting out on a new adventure.
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    Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
    I’ll make no bones about it. I hated the previous Banjo Kazooie games. Seemingly cut from the same irritating 3D platform mould that Rare have been trotting out for years. For any new Banjo Kazooie game to appeal to me, it would have to practically reinvent itself from the ground up. Quite fortunate then that this is exactly what BK3 has done. It has pretty much dispensed...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
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    Fable 2
    Fable 2 is one of those titles that a lot of gamers have been heavily anticipating. Gamers have waited years to get the chance to return to Albion. Set 500 years after the original Fable, Fable 2 begins with you as a child, having only your sister around to protect and provide for you. You will be presented with choices pretty early on that will have a consequence once...
    by Brandon Hofer at June 14th, 2009 at 09:06 pm
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    Castle Crashers
    The Behemoth’s games are like Marmite. Some people instantly click with the flash-drawn quirky graphical style the studio adopt for their titles (remember tough but pleasing sideways combat platformer Alien Hominid by the same guys?) Others find it all a bit lacking and I feel slightly torn between the two camps, liking some of the little comic touches here and there but...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 09:06 pm
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    Braid
    A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled their “Summer of Arcade” lineup for the month of August with some high profile titles that people have been waiting to play. One of the titles in that list, Braid, was released last week. Braid is one of those titles where you don’t really know what to expect before you play it, however, once you do play it you are immediately...
    by Brandon Hofer at June 14th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2
    When the Xbox 360 launched back in 2005, Geometry Wars was the breakout hit of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade. Priced at just 400 Microsoft points there were a lot of people who got addicted to it in addition to the title launching the twin stick shooter genre into the spotlight. Well, almost three years later, the sequel has finally arrived. However, this time around there...
    by Brandon Hofer at June 14th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Go Go Break Steady
    Marrying different game genres together is a risky business. For instance, no one would really want to play a Bemani-style game spliced with a “match three colours” puzzle fest would they? Developer Little Boy Games obviously think you do, because Go Go Break Steady does just that, dressing itself up in faux-cool street-style graphics, mixed together with first-year urban...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Coffeetime Crosswords
    It seems like a bit of a tricky choice. Spend a quid on a paper-based crossword puzzle book from your local corner shop or newsagents, or 800 points on the electronic equivalent for your Xbox 360. Sheer economics might scream “fool” at you for choosing the latter, but you know something? Coffeetime Crosswords isn’t actually all that bad. It takes the well known word-puzzle...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Warlords
    When I was a wee nipper, I wanted an Atari 2600. A posh kid who I went to school with had one, and seemed to have a lot of games for it – so we all made friends with him and pretended to like him just so we’d get an invite round his house to play on the thing. Back in those days, stuff like Xbox Live and even the Internet were the mad ravings of a lunatic and needless...
    by Neil Vaughan at June 14th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
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