I have fond memories of playing Mafia when it first came out back in 2004. The gritty open-world aspect of the game was very appealing, and come on, who doesn’t want to be a gangster! So it is with great excitement I introduce Mafia II and their newest trailer titled “Boom Boom Boom”. And I am excited all over again. Compared to the first game, which had 400 pages of screenplay, Mafia II is supposed to have about 700 pages, nearly 2 hours of cutscenes, and is promised to be the darker and grittier sequel to the first one. Awesome.
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…and the have the fine folk at Polyphony Digital and Sony to thank. As part of the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 game for the PS3, Polyphony Digital has released a NASCAR trailer featuring what appears to be stunningly realistic footage from the oft-delayed game.
Continuity is a very simple, cleanly designed flash game that quickly becomes very addictive. The basic premise is you play a stick man, and can control him/her/it with your usual arrow keys. Your goal is to get the key and unlock the door. The fun comes into play as you advance, when the key and door are on different panels. Then through a mosaic/puzzle interface, triggered by the space bar, you transport your stickman from one tile to another. However, not all tiles are compatible, preventing your stickman from moving through the wall. It’s a great little game that has been made very well in my opinion. (Found on DownloadSquad) Another sweet looking trailer for Assassin’s Creed II. I am so excited for this game. I really want to find out what is happening the game’s “present day” storyline.
So two things are going down today with Sony. First all the existing Playstation 3 consoles they sell right now are getting about $100 knocked of their price. Second, the oft rumored slim Playstation 3 has been finally announced. Retailing at $300 from the first week of September, Sony has finally taken the beamouth that is the Playstation 3 and repackeged it into a device that is 32 percent smaller, and takes 34 percent less power. The console will come with a 120GB drive, and the ability to work with your existing Bravia remote. Kudos to Sony for this, and the price cut. They’re finally competitive enough with the Xbox, but more importantly, making a great case to be my Blu-Ray player. (Found on Engadget) Holy crap! Ok it’s AI, so it can calculate all of this out a lot faster than a person could, but still… holy crap! It is squeezing through jumps and bullets and flying ducks within a hair’s length of dying. Insane! (Found on CrunchGear)
Red Remover has a simple enough premise: Keep the green blocks, and get rid of the red ones. There are a couple variations of blocks (light red can be deleted, dark red you can’t delete, blue you can delete but are neutral, and then you have squares, rectangles, and circles), and even different directions of gravity to keep the game very interesting. Fast, easy, and has a built-in video walk through for those frustrating moments when you get stuck. (Found on Digg)
Push is a simple flash game where you need to get your little guy to the treasure. But the cool thing is that you can use your mouse to push the green squares around like you have the force. The only downside, at least on a laptop is that you need to use a keyboard and be click with your mouse at the same time. It’s kind of hard to do that, or at least for me it was. (Found on DownloadSquad) Touchscreen gaming, like this, is a great push towards having Microsft Surfaces or Sufrace-like devices in your home. I love the large display, the zoom in and out and rotation of the battle scene above. Overall, the touchscreen is able to provide a Commander-perspective to the battle scene, and is much more engaging than a typical mouse-keyboard interface. (Found on Gizmodo)
To all my friends and readers who have whiled away their time playing Monkey Island (either as a kid or adult |
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