Dragon’s Lair on XBLA – the triumph of kitsch over obsolescence
No doubt you've been too busy blowing away Brazilian gang members in Max Payne 3 to notice that another video game icon has returned today. That's right, the 1983 laser disc 'game' Dragon's Lair is now on XBLA, complete with Achievements and Kinect support.
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Mari0: Now you’re platforming with Portals…
Prepare to have your mind boggled. The charming types at StabYourself have given Super Mario Bros. a portal gun. The plumber can now enter infini-loops, Bullet Bills can find themselves directed into harm's way and the shells of Koopa Troopers placed in perpetual motion.
Infinity Blade Dungeons looks sort of lovely
Be honest: do you spend an awful lot of time thinking about the days before the Legendary Blade was forged? I do. In fact, I'm thinking about those days right now. I'm also thinking about Infinity Blade Dungeons, which is set in that very period.This is called "multi-tasking".
Monkey Island meets Warioware in McPixel
McPixel, launched June 6 for iOS, Android, PC and Mac (and Commodore 64) is a Polish point and click adventure in which you have just 20 seconds to solve each scene.
Parkin speaks to the game's creator to find out more about this intriguing genre mash-up.
It’s a Tab: How did they do that?
Right, listen. I read about It's a Tab over on Indie Games, and they managed not to spoil the gimmick. I won't spoil it either. I'm not even going to put up a screenshot. Have a nice picture of Charlie Brown and Snoopy instead.
Seriously, don't think about It's a Tab; just go and play it right now.
Resonance – possibly point-’n-click perfection
Do you miss the days of carefully crafted point-n-click adventures with luscious hand-drawn pixel art environments? You do?!
Well then, inexplicably named New York-based developer Wadjet Eye has something for you to point your eyes at and immediately click with. Ha ha!
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Zday. It’s like DayZ, only it’s backwards.
Hey kids, zombies aren't labelled as boring anymore! Everyone's singing and dancing about Arma II mod DayZ, which to our mind sounds a little too much like Jay Z, so Hookshot thought we'd attempt to tag along to look cool.
Our deadhead champion, however, is Zday - an iOS zombie apocalypse Fighting Fantasy.
The Adventures of Shuggy is headed to Steam
Here's a chance to right some wrongs, perhaps. The Adventures of Shuggy took an age to make, and is a fascinating and rather clever platformer with a cute, Addams' Family vibe. It came out on XBLA a while back to decent reviews but few sales, and that's a shame. Now it's headed to Steam.
Nekogames’ Parameters: the RPG deconstructed
The latest title from Yoshio Ishii (the Japanese designer behind wonderful webgames such as Cursor *10 and Hoshi Saga) is his first attempt at an RPG.
Parkin takes a look at the role-playing game with no role to play.
New Dreamcast shoot ‘em up now coming to XBLA, PSN, iOS and Steam
Redux: Dark Matters, a new horizontal shoot 'em up from genre masters NG:DEV.TEAM, the developer behind GunLord, Fast Striker, Last Hope and DUX has reached its Kickstarter goal today and will be coming to a host of digital platforms.
Take a look inside.
Sonar = subterranean audio terror
Afraid of things that go bump in the night? What about things that go bump when you're trapped several hundred metres beneath the surface of the Earth with only a sonar sensor for company?
Meet Sonar, the game that deals with this very common and potentially devestating scenario...
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Hookshot Inc. Giveaway #2 – Winners Announced
Parkin announces the winners of Hookshot Inc.'s second Giveaway competition, those players who managed to score the longest shot in the excellent iOS card game Fairway Solitaire.