Apr 30, 2013

UPDATE: The EU PSN release date has been announced as 15th May. Original article follows. Terraria has landed on PSN and XBLA today, and so it now of course has a launch trailer. It’s that bit of video up there. Click and watch it; it has literally everything. Okay, perhaps it’s a little disingenuous to say ‘literally everything’....

Apr 12, 2013

On today’s Fireside Review, Stephen and Bryan venture to the illustrious BattleBlock Theater in search of truth. Hatty Hattington has gone bad– the baddest sort of bad– and that means leaping, climbing, fighting, and perhaps skipping along a co-op platforming adventure for the ages. Absurd difficulty modes are compared to genius level design,...

Apr 3, 2013

Format: 360 (version reviewed), PS3 Unleashed: Out Now (360 worldwide, PS3 in NA), TBA (PS3 in PAL regions) Publisher: 505 Games Developer: Re-Logic Players: 1-4 (offline), 1-8 (online) Site: http://www.terraria.org/ Terarria has been described as the 2D Minecraft. This is accurate and for those of you who like Minecraft, to save you time, we’ll say...

Mar 12, 2013

Payday: The Heist burst onto the gaming scene in the Autumn of 2011, for PS3 and PC. Two years later Overkill are back with the sequel. Will it be a steal? Influenced by Valve’s Left 4 Dead, the first Payday game offered four player co-op missions, set in urban environments. However, instead of shooting zombies, the player was tasked with stealing money,...

Mar 8, 2013

Film director Josef Fares has joined with developers Starbreeze to create a new digital only title, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Imagine the humour and storytelling of Fable mixed with the control scheme of the recent Nintendo Land Animal Crossing mini game (played with only two people) along with a puzzle game such as Lostwinds and Journey and perhaps you...

Jan 28, 2013

Format: PS3 (version reviewed), 360, Wii U, PC Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Sega (PS3, 360, PC), Double Fine (Wii U) Developer: Double Fine Players: 1-3 (offline only) Site: http://thecavegame.com/ On paper, it’s a formula that can only result in greatness. Double Fine (Psychonauts) + Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island) x “game I’ve wanted to make for a long...