Here’s the official trailer for The Simpsons Arcade Game, available now on Xbox Live Arcade and coming to the PSN on February 7 (Today!!!), 2012.
If you were a fan of The Simpsons while growing up, I’m pretty sure you would’ve remembered wasting a lot of quarters playing on this game at the local arcade center. What am I talking about? The Simpsons Arcade Game of course. The classic Double Dragon-style side scrolling beat ‘em up was one of the most fun games you could spend your coin on back then. Fortunately for those of you who didn’t get to experience it back then, will get to enjoy the game today.
Microsoft has announced that The Simpsons Arcade Game is now available for you to purchase on Xbox LIVE for your Xbox 360.e
This massively multiplayer online game immerses you in the world of Star Trek. Now you can explore the galaxy, defend your bases and ships, and play as your favorite characters from the Star Trek TV show. The 2800 return and invade Star Trek online on Saturday, February 11, 2012.
Polytron’s Fez, a world-shifting indie platformer that’s been coming to Xbox Live Arcade longer than some of you have been alive, might actually be out soon. Why? It’s been rated by the ESRB.
To be rated by the ESRB, it’s got to be almost completely finished, at least in terms of classifiable content.
Last we heard the game was due in “early 2012″, but we’ve long ago learned to mistrust anything that comes out developer Phil Fish’s mouth when it comes to release dates. The ESRB, however, are far more reliable, so hey, Fez! It might be out in a month or three!
EA Partners’ executive says single-player, co-op shooter won’t include controversial pass in an effort to have the game achieve mass appeal. Electronic Arts has stirred up much fervor with its online pass proposition, but Syndicate fans looking forward to the upcoming game won’t have to worry about it.
Speaking to Eurogamer, EA Partners executive producer Jeff Gamon said the publisher chose not to include an online pass with Syndicate, a single-player game with co-op missions, so as to reach the broadest appeal.
“We want as little resistance or barriers to entry as possible,” Gamon told the website. “The co-op is equal billing in this. We wanted everyone who owns a copy of the game to have access to the entire product.”
Canadian animator Joel Furtado wants to see Nintendo make a sequel to Wind Waker. In HD. Since they’re likely to do no such thing, he went and made his own trailer for the dream project.
Called The Legend of Zelda: The Lost Oracle, it looks…well, for a guy working on this for fun in his spare time it looks amazing.
If you’re going to infringe on copyright, you might infringe on all the copyrights at the same time. That way you can keep track of who’s taking you to court. Mario Crossover 2.0, the sequel to the already astonishingly rippy-offy original, is a remarkably slick mash-up of all the best Nintendo games. And Zelda.
Crossover 2.0 takes the basic concept of allowing characters like Samus (from Metroid), or Link (from Meh-lda) to run around Mario levels and runs in crazy directions with it. Mega-Man tossing blocks at Koopas, Samus blasting them with her arm gun thing, Link boring them to death with his boring-ness. I love the idea of in-game power-ups upgrading the graphics, taking the player into a modern era with every mushroom, and sliding back through history when damage is taken. And Ryu fighting Bowser is just precious. Feast your eyes on the entire roster in this demonstrative video-gram from a bygone era.
Smudged Cat Games have decided to release a Windows version of the classic time travel game, Timeslip,… completely for free. You can download the game here
“Timeslip Screens” was posted on Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:36:01 -0800
Haunt, his Kinect-exclusive ghost-’em-up developed with help from the UK’s Zoe Mode, is wonderfully silly and deliciously camp. It’s also sort of scary, but not in the blood-soaked manner we’ve come to expect.
This is horror as you experienced it as a kid. It’s a theme-park haunted house, full of cheesy “boo” moments that make you jump even as you’re rolling your eyes. It’s Vincent Price in a cape, not Jason Voorhees with a machete. It’s Halloween (the holiday) not Halloween (the movie). It’s about that enjoyable chill up the spine followed by a giggle at how daft it all is.
You’re playing as some hapless stooge, lured to a crumbling mansion. Inside, the spirit of the former owner, a corpulent fellow named Benjy, is trapped in the mansion’s many paintings. He needs your help to retrieve four “phantaflasks” for an arcane machine that will free him from his two-dimensional prison.
“Haunt Screens” was posted on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:48:01 -0800
Yes, the latest in a long line of labour machinery-based sims you would never dream existed is Airport Firefighter Simulator, in which you are all that stands in front of certain, explosive disaster. Quotes like this are simply amazing: “Even the most routine duties of aircraft refuelling and cargo management carry the chance of conflagration so you must always be on your guard to prevent a minor incident becoming a major inferno.”
Omigodomigodomigod. What could such a game possibly be like in action?
The endearingly titled Here Comes Launchman is the retro equivalent of a cat rolling about at your feet as it’s purring and looking up at you with it’s big, wet eyes: the trailer makes me want to pick it up and snuggle it.
It has everything: a simple colour palate, chiptunes, improbably surreal level design that only ever existed in the world of 8-bit platformers. Very catlike, indeed. I’d almost suggest it was trying to hard, but that would be mean and I can’t even begin to be negative about it. Instead I’ll be factual and then excited: it’s a physics-based platformer, where you guide the little guy around Puzzle Planet. Time to excitedly gesture towards the video they’ve just released, showing the complicated mouse-flinging you’ll have to achieve to toss the little chappy through those levels. Oh look, there it is there!
It’ll be out this year. I know what I’ll be doing in one of the 343 days left this year.
