What if we turned our head to the left and looked at the blocks from this angle? What if we jumped every time there was a slanted line, and held the left trigger whenever there was a square? What if the secret to opening this door involves standing still for …
Read More »Double Dragon Neon: WayForwards reboot shows the 80s never ended
The granddaddy of side-scrolling brawlers has headed down the thrift-store, picked out some garish hypercolor threads, and is ready for another stroll through town, kicking and punching anyone who gets in his way. Double Dragon Neon, a revival of Technos’ 1987 tribute to fisticuffs and sibling rivalry, will be coming …
Read More »Alan Wakes American Nightmare gets Tarantinoesque in first Dev Diary
If the makers of Lost or Twin Peaks were to come out with a new series’ worth of storyline, released for download-only and far more action-oriented than usual, you’d want to know how this came to be (and probably be quite happy that it did). So Alan Wake, which wears …
Read More »Indie Games are the biggest losers in new XBLA update
This week’s new Xbox Live dashboard goes a little too far in its efforts to streamline your access to XBLA content – at least, if you’re an indie games fan. The update doesn’t list Indie Games in the Genre section of the Marketplace. Instead, the sizable section’s relegated to a …
Read More »Voltron arrives on PSN and XBLA this week
THQ’s Voltron: Defender of the Universe hits download services this week. The game should be available for $10 on PSN by the time you read this, and will reach XBLA tomorrow at 800 MSP. The title’s developed by Behavior Interactive, whose previous Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime should have provided ample …
Read More »Alan Wake trades his typewriter for a nail gun in the first image from Alan Wakes Night Springs
As promised last week, the first image from the upcoming downloadable Alan Wake game, rumored to be called Alan Wake’s Night Springs, has been revealed. While we typically can’t tell all that much from a single image, this one actually gives us a good amount of material to speculate about. …
Read More »Joe Danger rated for Xbox Live Arcade by the Korean Ratings Board
We named Hello Games’ stunt-based motorcycle game, Joe Danger, one of the best downloadable games of 2010, but we won’t fault you if you haven’t heard much about it. The PlayStation Network exclusive was released last year to strong reviews , but the exclusivity kept it from ever growing to …
Read More »Diabolical Pitch: Grasshopper pitches Dragon Ball Z-style baseball for Kinect
Here’s a preview trailer for Diabolical Pitch, Grasshopper Manufacture’s upcoming Kinect-enabled Xbox Live title. The game is a veritable checklist of things that Japan and America have in common: despite a checkered mutual history and vastly different cultures, you won’t find two nations more devoted to the game of baseball. …
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