Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure hit game and toy store shelves, resulting in thousands of children and adults learning a new way to play together. There are many different ways to squeeze fun out of these shiny lumps of plastic; let’s take a look at three of them.
The colourful, imaginative online game from the team behind Flickr and the man behind Katamari Damacy goes live today.
After a little over four months on the job, Google’s “game developer advocate” is no longer with the company. The development follows his discussion at GDC-Europe of Google’s revenue plans for games sold over its Chrome Web Store
The maker of FarmVille, shedding users by the millions, got a jolt of good news on Tuesday when the game’s parent company reached an agreement with Facebook, settling a standoff over the handling of virtual currency transactions.
Caught in an apparent pissing match with Facebook, Farmville creators Zynga seems to be losing. Two weeks ago Zynga lost 3.1 million monthly active users. Last week they lost 4.2 million of them.
Wii owners can look forward to some slightly-more-adequate web browsing real soon now if this rumoured upgrade to Opera is on the money.
Edmund McMillen (of Aether, Gish, and the game that shall not be named) is back with Meat Boy, a challenging little game that involves the titular blob of meat trying to rescue Bandaid Girl in a variety of levels. It took me a while to actually look at the game, since the designer woke me up a few nights in a row via IM asking me to take a look at it — I hold a grudge when it comes to my sleep being interrupted — but I’ve spent some time with it and it’s worth a looksee if you’re in the mood for a challenge on a Sunday afternoon. Controls are simple, the game is difficult, but you can skip two levels per group — so if you really get stuck, don’t despair.