Day 3 of the week-and-a-half long Indie Games
Summer Uprising sees the arrival of Cute
Things Dying Violently, a wonderfully-titled puzzle game with a deliciously
twisted sense of humour.
The Indie Games Summer Uprising continues with day 2 of the week and a half long event. Tuesday’s featured game is Battle High: San Bruno, a 2D fighter game known for its classic feel and fun play-style.
Hey howdy hey, Spider-fans. Spidey has been getting a lot of buzz lately, even for one of the most popular characters in comics. He has a new movie and a new game coming out, ‘Ultimate him’ died, and, last but not least, he’s getting an island named after him! Well, kinda-sorta. You see, while there has been a lot of interest in the death of Ultimate Spidey lately, our good old fashioned Amazing Spidey is still kicking derriere and taking monikers. The inauspiciously numbered Amazing Spider-Man #666, or perhaps auspiciously (depending on your preference) acts as the prelude to the new Marvel event “Spider Island.”
We are almost halfway through this
season of Breaking Bad, and while it hasn’t been an
adrenaline-filled ride, the series is still putting out highly
entertaining episodes. “Cornered” may not have seen much plot
progression, but the characters’ personal journeys made for
compelling drama.
In recreating the opening from “Bullet
Points” the episode set us up to think we already knew the outcome.
If Mike handled two cartel thugs with a single pistol, than surely
these two guys packing assault rifles won’t have any problem dealing
with a few more hijackers. But that lull was intentionally designed
to impart more impact on what actually happened; which already had
plenty of its own. Seeing the two guards die clawing and scratching
for air as they gasp on exhaust fumes didn’t quite match the level of
brutality in watching Victor meet his end at the hands of Gustavo;
but it wasn’t far behind either. Contrasting it with the three
cartel agents casually sharing the dead driver’s lunch was a black
humor cherry on top.
The two-week long Xbox Live Indie Summer Uprising event will showcase a different Indie game every day for the next two weeks, and it kicks off today with Raventhorne, a side-scrolling viking beat-em up by Milkstone Sudios.
According to Eurogamer and the Square
Enix earnings reports, Square Enix has had a dreadfully bad year so
far, partly due to the problems with one of their entries in their
trademark “Final Fantasy” franchise, Final Fantasy XIV.
Now, many things could be said about
the “Final Fantasy” franchise at this point, or comments made about
Square Enix’s attempts to enter the MMO market. But what remains at
the end of the day is that Square Enix, even with their AAA titles of
“Kingdom Hearts” and “Final Fantasy,” is doing poorly this year.
Deck the halls with bags of pot, everyone’s favorite odd couple is back for a third round of medicated antics in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (oh and Neil Patrick Harris may make an appearance). Also, Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler star in the Shakespearian war-drama Coriolanus (also directed by Fiennes) about an exiled war hero who aligns with his enemy to take back the city that wronged him. Puncture finds Captain
Conan
is called a barbarian for a reason. He is not your conventional hero;
he is a simple man with simple needs to ravage women, kill people, and
enjoy three square meals a day. But he is a bit of a brute and not so
hot to look at. This just got the Player Affinity staff thinking about the Hollywood heroes you would never want to rescue you from danger. Here are just a few of them.
NC Soft, the company behind City of Heroes, Guild Wars, Aion and Lineage showed off their new MMO today at Gamescom. It’s a sci-fi adventure set in outer space, and seems to emphasize humor and cartoony design over realism.
Fukunaga’s (Sin Nombre) gripping and photorealistic take on Jane Eyre, which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray today, doesn’t exactly provide an amazing revelation for bringing the story back to life, but it does prove that no classic can be so overdone that it becomes untouchable
