Archive for November, 2012

#782 Portal

Posted: 27th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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197th played so far Genre: Puzzle/Action Platform: PC/Xbox 360/PS3 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Valve Publisher: Valve Memes. A term that first arose in the 1970s when Richard Dawkins wanted a term to apply to how ideas, catchphrases and other such items of culture can quickly pass through a populace. In the age of the […]

#891 Captain Forever

Posted: 23rd November 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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196th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Internet Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Jarrad Woods One of the nicer things the internet has enabled is the easier creation and distribution of games. It’s easier to create a flash game everyone can see. While this leads to a lot of copies and crud being […]

#202 Super Castlevania IV

Posted: 19th November 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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195th played so far Genre: Action/Platform Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1991 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Castlevania’s one of those long running standard-setting series. You know, like Mario, Mega Man, Sonic and Kirby. Videogame series that have delivered several times and tend to be reliable enough to do a good job most of the time. […]

#660 Jade Empire

Posted: 15th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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194th played so far Genre: Action/Role Playing Game Platform: Xbox/PC Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Bioware Publisher: Microsoft (Xbox) 2K Games (Xbox) My love for Bioware has been well documented on this blog before and happily, we’ve already had a chance to play Baldur’s Gate II, Neverwinter Nights and Star Wars: Knights of the Old […]

#696 Elebits (or Eledees)

Posted: 11th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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193rd played so far Genre: Action/Shoot ’em Up Platform: Wii Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami For those of you keepin track, it’s been a while since we did a Wii game. Technically World of Goo was one, but it wasn’t a proper one… We didn’t even touch our Wii to play it. […]

#859 World of Goo

Posted: 7th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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192nd played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: PC/Wii Year of Release: 2008 Developer: 2D Boy Publisher: 2D Boy Okay, this is a game listed in the book for both the PC and the Wii but in reality we played it on an iPad. There is no real reason for this other than price and the […]

#903 Fat Princess

Posted: 3rd November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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191st played so far Genre: Action Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Titan Studios Publisher: Sony Time for us to take another delve into the dark world of downloadable console games and it’s actually one of the reasons I wanted to buy a PS3. Strangely it took me a long time to get […]