PC

When Your World Is A Sheer Vertical Wall, All You Can Do Is Climb

When I first loaded up Michael P. Consoli’s Against the Wall I felt the early onset of panic. In front of me, stretching out in all four directions was a vertical wall made of blocks of varying sizes.


October 18, 2011
Nintendo

How To Play With Your Skylanders Toys On Console, 3DS, Online

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.


September 27, 2011
PC

They Made Flickr. He Made Katamari Damacy. Together, They’re Launching Glitch

The colourful, imaginative online game from the team behind Flickr and the man behind Katamari Damacy goes live today.


July 19, 2011
PC

You Can Fix The US Debt With A Few Mouse Clicks

If you ever wanted to control where American dollars go, now’s your chance. American Public Media, known mostly for their expansive public radio work, recently updated Budget Hero, a free web-based game where the player has the future of the nation’s budget in their hands.


October 28, 2010

A Look At Free-To-Play Star Trek – Infinite Space In Action

Star Trek – Infinite Space gets its first trailer today, giving us a glimpse of what the free-to-play game hopes to deliver.


August 26, 2010
News

Google’s ‘Game Developer Advocate’ Leaves

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


May 19, 2010
Uncategorized

Facebook, FarmVille Reach Truce On Virtual Currency

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.


May 12, 2010
News

Farmville Maker Is Haemorrhaging Players

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.


November 12, 2008
Uncategorized

Opera Browser For Wii Levels Up

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.


October 20, 2008
Uncategorized

Sunday Timewaster: Meat Boy

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.

Meat Boy