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Need for Speed: Rivals is the first arcade racer available on the PS4 at launch, and it looks gorgeous in full HD. It’s the first AAA title I’ve played on the PS4 that hints at what visual treats we might see in future, fully next-gen titles. As an early adopter
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I’m a TMNT wonk from way back, owning all of the original comics, so I was stoked to see a TMNT game appear on Xbox Live. The screenshots looked great too, I could see the creators had gone back to the Eastman and Laird comics for inspiration, as one shot
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Gotham City Impostors is a new XBLA Batman themed shooter from Warner Brothers, selling for 1200MSP. It’s Batman ‘themed’ because Batman and his many villains never appear themselves, instead you play in a team of sad, delusional vigilante wanna-bes, either as Bats or Jokers. The game is multi-player only and
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Happy Action Theater is Double Fine’s latest Xbox Live Arcade game. It’s the first Kinect XBLA game they’re released, but not the first Kinect game they’ve written as they were also responsible for the “Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster” Kinect retail game. Happy Action theater isn’t really a game
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“Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet”, or “ITSP” for short according the official blog, is a new XBLA game from Michael Gagne and Fuelcell Games. Michael Gagne is an experienced animator and comic artist which is pretty obvious from this game. ITSP starts with a bang like some crazy Saturday morning sci-fi
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‘Trenched’ is the third XBox Live game from Double Fine, coming after ‘Costume Quest’ and ‘Stacking’. In Trenched you get to pilot a ‘mobile trench’, which is a giant, killer robot that mounts a variety of guns, artillery, sniper rifles and more exotic tools of destruction. You and your trench
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If you played the original Dead Space, you may remember the free promotional comics on XBox Live. Dead Space 2: Ignition is basically one of those, except it’s mildly interactive and it will set you back 400MSP.
Ignition describes the mayhem that occurs on the Sprawl just before the Dead Space 2 game will start. The Sprawl being the large space station/colony that Dead Space 2 is set on. The comic introduces two characters who give you a short tour of various parts of the station while bad stuff happens. The artwork used in the comic is mediocre and poorly animated. More than anything it reminds me of the sort of sketched felt-tip ‘storyboard’ panels you sometimes see in the deleted scenes on DVDs. The characters are barely animated in the comic and when they are it’s very crude – for example bobbing them up and down to indicate walking.
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