2008 proved to be a relatively solid year for vidya games. And 2009 has a good amount of games slated for release, not to mention the potential for certain studios to announce games throughout the year. It will be quite interesting to see what games are released, which ones suck, which ones are good, and [...]
A bit late, yeah. But 2008 was a big year for the vidya, regardless of how good or bad, over or under-hyped, or just plain shitty the games were. So, without further adieu, my recap of all of 2008’s major titles.
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Check out Valve’s Holiday Sale before January second - some really good deals, including Aquaria, the Prince of Persia pack (all four PoP games for dirt cheap), World of Goo, and Bioshock for under five dollars.
There are some games that, no matter how badly translated, withstand the proverbial test of time. Way back in the era of the original Playstation, a console and generation dominated and defined mostly by 3D games, Konami managed to release a fantasticly crafted two-dimensional RPG called Suikoden, in which you took control of an unlikely [...]
Braid is one of the reasons I kind of wish I had a 360, but much like Mass Effect, I’ll finally be able to play it early next year, according to Jonathan Blow. If you’re not sure what Braid is, it’s basically a side scrolling platformer inspired by numerous older games (like Super Mario), with [...]
EA’s platform runner game, Mirror’s Edge, was delayed on it’s PC release a while ago - slated to come out in January, it now appears that the delay was due to the integration of Nvidia’s Physx, the technology on newer cards which allows advanced physics processing to be allocated to the video card, instead of [...]
This game will most likely suck, really bad, but it’s interesting to see a game fully utilizing Physx. At least it looks pretty good.
Aquaria happens to be one of the best indie games I’ve ever played. It was made by a small team of developers and won some award or something in 2007 for best Independent game.
The reason I like it so much is because it fuses so many of my favorite game types - like classic retro [...]
The Watchmen movie might be good, but I’ll probably say it sucks.
The Watchmen game, however, looks halfway decent, and is a prequel to boot. Combat looks decent, as you get to play as both Night Owl and Rorschach. Of course, the appeal of The Watchmen, to me, was the fact that there wasn’t so much [...]
Not much new information, but the footage of the combat looks promising - even if it’s early alpha footage.