Just in case it hasn’t been mentioned enough, Fall Damage really enjoyed Trine. If you STILL haven’t played it, despite all of our press about how awesome this game truly is, then now is certainly the time to do so. Steam’s Midweek Madness has the game at only $5, which is a deal that none of you should be ignoring. To top it off, it’s now available on the Mac as well through the shiny new Steam-Mac service. [Something I like to call S-Mac.]
It’s time to play, guys.
Steam’s Halloween sale is going on RIGHT NOW! Save anywhere between 33-75%! October 28th through November 1st!
For your convience here is a list of some of the Games on Sale:
Dead Space $9.99!
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition $4.99!
Worms Reloaded $9.99!
Ghostbusters: The Videogame $9.99!
Zombie Driver $4.99!
Silent Hill Homecoming $19.99!
Overlord Complete Pack $7.99!
Left 4 Dead Bundle $14.99!
Aliens vs. Predator™ $9.99!
Resident Evil™ 5 $14.99!
Team Fortress 2 $9.99!
Devil May Cry 4 $9.99!
BioShock™ $4.99!
Amnesia: The Dark Descent $13.39!
Dungeon crawler fans rejoice! Torchlight is celebrating their one year anniversary and as a result selling the game for 50% off! That’s only $10! Better hurry though the Sale ends October 29th at 8am PST! Head over to their website to pick up the game! If you have yet to play it, it is definitely worth $20, and even a better steal at $10!
The wholly original “Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom” (which I’m excited it for real reasons, not just that it reminds me of some OTHER game) has gone gold today, which means the expected release date of November 25th should hold. So everyone, please take your gigantic pet monster and teach him how to queue up downloads on XBL or PSN because the demo drops tomorrow.
In the downloadable demo, players will set out on the game’s very first level where the hero first encounters the Majin. Together they embark on their voyage through the beautiful, yet darkness-infected kingdom. The demo gives players a taste of the vast wealth of gameplay the full version possesses with vile enemies to overcome and conundrums to solve.
Sometimes it feels like modern games coddle players. There was a time when beating a game meant sitting down and battling through it in one sitting. If you were lucky the developer employed a password system that would bring you back to the start of whatever level you were on. Now we have checkpoints after every minor battle and constant autosave systems. We have unlimited lives and omnipresent hint systems. Gamers today often find their only challenge in competitive multiplayer; someone on the other end creates a challenge where the developers couldn’t.
I mention this because Super Meat Boy is hard as hell. I had every intention to finish the game before reviewing it, but I couldn’t. This isn’t to say I can’t beat this game or that I won’t; god help me I will finish this game. However my conquest has eluded me due to a perfect storm of tortuously difficult levels and sheer content overload.
Super Meat Boy is, on the surface, a simple platformer where you lead a skinless flesh bag through a carnival of dangers with the elemental power of wall jumping. Dig deeper and you will begin to notice how tight the controls are. With practice you’ll find yourself recreating the exact same jump time and time again. You’ll start to feel how button press duration affects your trajectory and how a running start affects your momentum.
And then you will die, a lot, and eventually you’ll grow to accept that too.
In this week’s episode of the Fall Damage podcast we had the pleasure of interviewing indie gaming royalty; Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes. Together they are known as Team Meat, and their platformer Super Meat Boy (releasing October 20th) is set to be the main course of Xbox Live Arcade’s Game Feast.
The guys sat down with us to discuss indie gaming’s role in the current gaming industry, the crumbling barriers to entry into game development, and why Xbox Live Arcade > Playstation Network > WiiWare. The full transcription of our interview is after the cut.
Ok so we’re a few days behind posting this, and surely you already know by now, but it’s worth mentioning so we’re mentioning it. One of the arcade’s all time greatest beat-em-ups is coming to XBLA and PSN… with 6-player online drop-in/out coop play.
The X-Men arcade game ruled arcades back in the early nineties, and here’s hoping we see other arcade classics like The Simpsons and Sunset Riders hop on the downloadable games bandwagon… but what does it say about modern gaming that we’re able to get excited about re-releases of 18 year old games?
Our pals over at FrozenByte have been hard at work on the next iteration of Trine if this teaser trailer is anything to go by. And they usually are, which is pretty much the reason we bother watching them and the developers bother releasing them. That’s more or less the whole intent of teaser trailers actually, so I don’t know why I brought it up in the first place.
Anyway Trine 2 is due out sometime next year and is sure to set my console aflame with 3 player online coop.
I call wizard.
Comic Jumper is out now!
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Sega released a new trailer today that shows off a few of the myriad enemies you’ll be facing in the upcoming Shinji Mikami gun orgy Vanquish. Anyone who played the demo(s) will be unsurprised to find this trailer contains 100% of your daily requirement of fast paced stylistic gunplay and a giant robot with napalm breath.
Vanquish is slated for an October 19th release date.
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