Mobile

Tetris Plus Tower Defence Yet Again, But Better This Time

In game designer Eitan Glinert’s mind peanut butter must be tower defence and jelly must be Tetris, because for the second game in a row, the young creator has smushed the two great gaming styles together. He’s just done it radically different this time, as if switching from making PB&J sandwiches to — I don’t know — PB&J tacos.


August 23, 2011
News

Go Home Dinosaurs Is The Name Of A New PAX Video Game

My co-favourite video game of the 2010 PAX East in Boston was an odd but joyous multiplayer tower-building/battling game called SlamBolt Scrappers. The people who made that, Fire Hose Games, are showing their next game at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle this weekend.


March 16, 2011
PC

If You Play Multiplayer Games Online, You’re Doing It Wrong

I am so sick of online multiplayer. I swear, if I get trolled by one more 13-year-old kid or get a flirt from some dude pretending to be a girl, I’m gonna lose my shit.


February 19, 2011
PlayStation

At Last, You Too Can Understand The Confusing, Bewildering Slam Bolt Scrappers

I’ve written about Slam Bolt Scrappers before. It’s got a weird name, but it has merited my attention – and yours.


June 12, 2010
News

Our Favourite PAX East Game Will Be Exclusive To PS3

The best game I saw at the last gaming convention I attended will be announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive at the next one. OK, I had two favourite games last time. Slam Bolt Scrappers was one of them.


March 29, 2010

Slam Bolt Scrappers Preview: An Instant Winner

I ended my tour of PAX East 2010 with two games vying for the title of Stephen’s favourite New Game At The Show. This was one of them.