After the success of the really difficult platformer Super Meat Boy, it’s no surprise that other game developers would follow suit. But while the upcoming Fenix Rage — which Green Lava is making for PCs, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 — may be tough, and is made of platforms, in talking to executive producer Ted Lange as I played the game, it seems that this isn’t just Exceptional Fish Girl.
Since 1962, nearly every spy movie, book, game, and comic has been influenced by the James Bond movies. And often for the better. Just consider CounterSpy, a smart, stylish, and ultimately supremely fun side-scrolling shooter for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita that’s like an interactive version of a Bond movie’s opening credits.
In recent months, there’s been a number of next-gen remakes of previous gen games that only upgrade the graphics, add in the add-ons, and that’s basically it (I’m looking at you, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and The Last Of Us Remastered). But with Metro Redux, 4A games are bringing truly improved versions of their post-apocalyptic sci-fi shooters Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light to the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
With endless and addictive action, the original version of the fantasy role-playing game Diablo III was already a great game. But with the new Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition, Blizzard are not only bringing an expanded and improved version to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 for the first time, but to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as well.
With the release of Pinball FX2 for Xbox One, Zen Studios have finally brought their pinball program to every game system that matters. But unlike other system transitions they’ve made recently, Pinball FX2 for Xbox One isn’t just a slightly better looking version of an earlier model.
While some people dream of being President, and some people dream of being athletes, the truly cool dream of being rock stars. Well, now you can live out that dream with TourStar, an iOS game that let’s you live the rock & roll lifestyle. But in talking to Brandon Pankey, the managing partner of Music Players Group LLC and one of the game’s co-creators, it seems there’s more to TourStar than seeing a million faces and rockin’ them all.
In Akiba’s Trip: Undead And Undressed, your main goal is to tear people’s clothes off. But while this is done under the guise that you’re destroying bad, vampire-like super humans, let’s not kid ourselves: this is a game about sexually assaulting people. Which is why I, in good conscience, cannot recommend anyone buy this game.
That it’s also a bad game is just the icing on the cake. A gross, gross cake.
In recent years, playing video games has become a sport for many people. And yet, most of the games being played as sports, and in sports arenas, aren’t actually sports games. But that could change with Epigenesis, a first-person futuristic sports game for PCs that creators Dead Shark Triplepunch call a “non-lethal ballgame of the future.” But with shooting and platforms high above the ground is it really non-lethal? Project/game design lead Michael Levall explains the finer points of this game.
In the mid-80s, when I was in high school, my friends and I used to drive up to the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, New Jersey to go to Fun N Games, the biggest arcade around. But while I dumped plenty of quarters into the latest arcade games, I also spent a lot of time playing the new pinball machines as well. Which is why I was excited to try out “Black Knight 2000,” “Junk Yard,” “High Speed,” and “WHO Dunnit,” the four new tables for The Pinball Arcade that FarSight Studio have just released on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Vita. But while they’re a mixed bunch, they also kind of made me feel like I was back at Fun N Games…save for the lack of Jersey metalheads hanging around.