Limbo: review

Bereft of filler, nearly every moment of Limbo is unique and beautiful. You are a boy. You walk left, right, jump, or grab your way through a dark, gloomy world. You are looking for someone, but the game never says who. Limbo never actually says anything – it simply exists and leaves you to interpret its meaning.

31% of XBLA games ‘casual’; Hello Games not happy.

Speaking at this year’s Develop conference (as reported at Develop Online), Sean Murray of four – man team Hello Games has revealed that over 30% of XBLA titles are so called ‘casual’ games; but that such titles make up less than 5% of the digital market.

E3: Deadliest Warrior Preview

Pipeworks Software has found themselves in a very interesting position. Deadliest Warrior managed to find an excellent booth spot directly in the madness of the E3 South Hall entrance. Clearly, we’re supposed to care about this game based on marketing alone.

Dreamcast’s Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi Headed to XBLA/PSN

Sega will dive back into the Dreamcast catalog with an XBLA/PSN incarnation of Sonic Adventure. Following that, we’ll also be getting Crazy Taxi.

Six Games, Six Xbox Live Deals of the Week

With savings of 33-50%, these are some genuinely good deals for some of the service’s better games.

Lead and Gold: review

The Wild West is often perceived as a fairly barren place when the bandits have rolled into town, full of fastest finger shootouts and indiscriminate, guilt free murder. This feeling has been rather accurately transferred over into Fatshark’s western inspired online shooter, Lead & Gold.

Hydro Thunder Hurricane: PAX East Hands-On

Hydro Thunder Hurricane, on display at PAX East (and due out sometime this summer), is a careful successor to Midway’s original – developer Vector Unit clearly wants to do its own thing, but does so without compromising our rose-tinted memories.

Breach: PAX East Hands-On

Atomic Games, developer of the unreleased Six Days in Fallujah, intends to throw a monkey wrench into the online shooter arena this summer. Breach, their new multiplayer war game, offers most of the features of big shooters in a tiny package – a mere $15 download on XBLA and PC.

Raskulls – PAX East Hands-On

Raskulls is Mr. Driller meets Mario Kart, with four players digging their way through a colorful environment in an attempt to cross the finish line first.

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom: review

Winterbottom is a nearly perfect little game. It aspires to be everything you could hope for in a downloadable game: intelligent, artistic, charming, and polished.

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