I like music visualizers. I’ve liked them since before there were music visualizers – since I first saw a component equalizer with LED level indicators. While all the fancy visualizers of today make the equalizer display look positively plebian, it does have one advantage – I can tell what it is reacting to. With the [...]
My mother used to have a glob of live sourdough culture she called ‘Herman’. She would add flour to it and feed it and it would grow and balloon into something much larger, but it was still just sourdough. Dirge Game Studio’s Herman is like that as well.
Remember PC gaming in 1992? A couple years before DOS extenders, when processors ran at 33MHz and a 16MB HDD was pretty big, just getting a platform game running at all was considered an accomplishment. There were timing oddities and collision errors in games that often had enemies bumbling about outside the range of your [...]
Isn’t this a free in-browser Flash game? Well, yes and no. This version of Fishing Girl is not just a port; it plays rather differently from the original Flash game. So, no more about the Flash version, this is the XBLIG version of Fishing Girl. Fishing Girl is a well-executed, charming and simple game. You [...]
Puzzle games, always a joy to review. I think there are more styles of play in puzzle games than any other genre, and more variation of opinion. (For example, I find Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo to be on the lower end of mediocre, while I’m painfully aware of its immense popularity.) Attempting to explain [...]
Spawned upstream with Dotstream and Streamline, BitStream is a steer-your-line-around-obstacles racing game with superior audiovisuals and a twist.
Set in that mythical world your government wants you to believe in, where Terrorism is a nation rather than a modus operandi (I think it shares a border with the nation of Drugs) and war can be made against it, Shellblast HD asserts the premise that we know where all of the Terrorists’ bombs are [...]
The very best of the best sorted by category. Want to know what the best shooter is? The best platform game?
Look no further.
The games that various staffers have loved, hugged and enjoyed on the service since its inception.
Recent Comments