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Retro Game Challenge – Nintendo DS Review
Shinya Arino is the man Dr Kawashima might have become if he’d blown his student loan on shoot-’em-ups and Mario plushies, and spent all of his time playing videogames at medical school instead of studying. Like Kawashima in Brain Training, Arino presents his game in the form of a disembodied head, issuing challenges designed to ...
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Our Brutes
Iestyn forwarded a link to the browser based community game, My Brute, last week but I only got round to signing up yesterday. The premise is dull simple: enter your name and the game will randomly generate a 25 pixel high fighter for you. They’re given a random set of statistics, with attribute points spread ...
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Hyena on a Leash
“A friend emailed me an image taken on a cellphone through a car window in Lagos, Nigeria, which depicted a group of men walking down the street with a hyena in chains. A few days later I saw the image reproduced in a South African newspaper with the caption ‘The Streets of Lagos’. Nigerian newspapers ...
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Cat Nip
It’s April which, in the New World Weather Order means that it’s basically the height of summertime here in the UK right now. This means I get to go cycling in the woods near my house of an evening, marveling at the shadow kites cast by the evening sun shone through treetops, while simultaneously cowering ...
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Best Thing I Saw Today #45: The Caspian Sea Monster
“The Soviets had a monopoly on this fascinating technology, relying on a little-known principle of physics – the “ground effect” – in which a dense cushion of air hugging the ground can provide more lift to a vehicle than air at higher altitudes. Hovering about 3 – 12 feet above the ground, these vehicles resemble ...
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Rag Doll Kung-Fu: Fists of Plastic – PS3 Review
The similarities between Sackboy and a string puppet Bruce Lee may be few, but without Rag Doll Kung-Fu it’s doubtful there would have been a LittleBigPlanet. Mark Healey’s puppetry-’em-up, developed in the scraps of time found between his work as an artist at Lionhead, was released mere months before he quit to form Media Molecule. ...
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The Infatuation
If games are lovers then our promiscuity knows no bounds. For many gamers, their relationship with the hobby is characterized by a string of flings: transient passions expressed through a fortnight’s worth of devoted and frantic interaction. But, aside from those controlling, abusive marriages that MMO players find themselves in, the fling usually remains a ...