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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Asiad Puzzle 1.0, a delightful yet challenging match 3 game for iPad iPhone iPod

A la Bejeweled, players must match three formation pieces in a row. Featured are advanced graphics, 3D characters and sound simulations of sport events in the 16th Asian Games event being hosted at Guangzhou, China in November 2010. High scores and medal tallies are recorded for each player in iOS Game Center or on the OpenFeint leader boards.

Monday, November 08, 2010

Why is Kinect so laggy? How Microsoft's new controller fails to inspire new gamers.... Project Natal fails to deliver!

Microsoft promised so much and now that the chance to launch Kinect (project Natal) is about to arrive so has it delivered? Looks like the answer is NO! With reported lag in the Kinect system and videos posted daily show the lag between gamer actions and game play what can Microsoft do? Did they include a contract with game testers NOT to publish lag reports before launch? Watch this top notch developer video (until it's taken down) from the US Jimmy Falon show.

Football Manager 2011 kicks FIFA 11 into 2nd place in UK video games chart

1 FOOTBALL MANAGER 2011
2 FIFA 11
3 FABLE III
4 JUST DANCE 2
5 PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE LOST FUTURE

Free Version of Words With Friends HD Is Now Up on the App Store - free download link

Texas based Newtoy today announces Words With Friends HD 3.13, the free, iPad version of their wildly popular turn-based crosswords game. Words With Friends HD features a polished, single-screen game interface similar to the premium version. It is offered for free through support from in-game advertising. Featuring more than two million daily active players, Words With Friends is the most popular word game on the iOS platform.


Official Disney Epic Mickey video game release trailer Nintendo Wii out November 26th

Meanwhile, a poster on the NeoGAF forum has found what appear to be the same concepts described in the original Gamasutra report, showing more distorted, nightmarish, mechanical versions of classic Disney characters, including the Seven Dwarves. They come from the artist Gary Glover's site.


Free Dead Space 2: Ignition Prologue Lullaby Horror video game teaser trailer PC PS3 X360

Dead Space 2 Lullaby video game Trailer PC PS3 X360. New teaser trailer for their highly anticipated Third Person Survival-Horror title, Dead Space 2. Dead Space Extraction is a prequel that reveals the events leading up to Isaac Clarke’s mission on the USG Ishimura in Visceral Games’ award-winning Dead Space. Dead Space Extraction tells the story of a handful of space colonists desperately struggling to escape from a horrific infection on the Aegis VII mining colony deep in the furthest regions of space. The game introduces a new heroine, Lexine to the fiction and as the crew fall victim to a mysterious contagion aboard the ship, it becomes clear that protecting her may be their only hope for survival. Dead Space Extraction introduces all new characters, weapons, enemies, puzzles and co-operative multiplayer gameplay.

Gobliiins available now on iPad iPhone iPod

Gobliiins - First in the Goblins trilogy, an Atari/Amiga game series from the early 90's that became one of the first hits in the puzzle platformer genre, now available on the iPhone.

Strategy, Shooting and Space Action collide in XT video game iPhone iPod iPad - download link

Florence based LKA Interactive today announces XT 1.0 for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Created as a fun yet mentally engaging strategic shooter, XT throws the user into the driver's seat of an exotic spacecraft to pick up gems scattered around a cosmic playing field while avoiding or destroying all enemy spacecraft that stand in their way. XT includes 30 unique and challenging mission levels that require both agility and strategic thought to conquer.




1942, Black Tiger, Commando, Exed Exes, Ghost'n' Goblins Sonson video games coming to Nintendo Wii

Coming this winter, Capcom is bringing its classic arcade titles to the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console Arcade.  As previewed at New York Comic Con, six titles will be released in all: SONSON, 1942, Ghosts’n Goblins, Black Tiger, EXED EXES, and Commando: Wolf of the Battlefield.  These old-school classics will challenge and bemuse veteran gamers and introduce a new generation to Capcom’s arcade roots.  All six titles will be available through the Virtual Console download service in both the US and Europe.

Brain App coming to Mac App Store - Beta Program Begins

UK based independent games developer Chris Mayer announces Brain App for Mac, an enhanced version of the popular and critically acclaimed iPhone/iPad brain trainer. Using tried and tested techniques, Brain App presents a variety of rapid-fire math problems in quick succession to exercise the brain. Brain App tracks progress and encourages users to improve day-by-day. A beta version is due around the end of November 2010, and anyone can sign up to participate in the beta program.