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Toy Story 3 delivers gameplay that lasts to infinity, and beyond
Making a good kids’ game is hard. By the time your skills are refined enough to deliver a solid experience you’re out of touch with your audience. It’s a strange crux to face, but the folks at Avalanche software stared it down and delivered a very solid experience for the minors. Toy Story 3: The Video Game straddles the line between story-driven and purely experiential gameplay to offer the best of both worlds for kids who want a lot from their games.
July 4, 2010
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Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake delivers a second serving of a delectable main course
Fat Princess had an awkward time squeezing through the PSN’s door. The single-player experience was overshadowed by the multiplayer and the multiplayer suffered from the usual ailments most downloadable titles on the PSN suffer from. However, despite a lack of people playing and a few server issues the game was an absolute darling. Adorable art, combined with a cute premise and solid execution, the game should have been a runaway hit. Sony’s coming back for seconds this time with a snack-sized edition available for the Playstation Portable and this time it’s got legs.
PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe gets a re-release on everyone's favourite proprietary disc format
Q Entertainment, the defacto Playstation Network developer released a lovely little tower defense game called Pixel Junk Monsters way back in 2008 with several iterations improving on the game across both PS3 and PSN. It’s been a long time coming, but PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe is finally available on UMD for all those PSP owners who haven’t upgraded to the PSP Go or downloaded the game on their PS3.
Sports are always more fun when there's violence involved.
Sports aren’t always the most popular topic amongst geeks. However, when digitized and blended with a whole ton of high fantasy you’ve got a combination that even the most reclusive of nerds can’t resist. Blood Bowl is a video game adaptation of the Games Workshop tabletop game of the same name. Players control a football team of Tolkein-esque characters and play in an abberation of the sport that makes our version of full contact seem wimpy.
We unbox Disney Interactive's take on Pixar's world
Video games haven’t really been the best friends to toys. Ever since they started filling in the gaps between a kid’s reality and imagination toys just haven’t seemed as much fun. Toy Story 3 looks to mend that strained relationship between pull-strings and pixels by offering a really unique gameplay mode that acts less like a video game and more like a playset. We got a hands-on preview with Disney Interactive’s summer tie-in game and were pleasantly impressed with what it had to offer.
Just how does one wrangle the essence of Tony Stark in to a video game?
Lots of people were excited for Iron Man, but few could predict just how phenomenal the film would be. Now, with the sequel being one of the most anticipated films of the past 5 years it’s only natural SEGA has returned to deliver another video game adaptation of the classic Marvel character.
Developer Mike McHale and Producer Dean Martinetti at SEGA invited us to listen in to a conference call that went over a lot of the game’s talking points and let us have some insight on how Iron Man 2 plans to be more than the expected movie-game cash-in.
Click Here to download the interview. [MP3 - 67:22, 31.7 MB]
This futuristic racer drags itself past the finish line
Rocket Racing is a futuristic 2D racing game with an interesting concept; the rocket powered ships behave as they would in real life. The forces of propulsion are affected by their proximity to fixed surfaces, meaning that players who skirt around corners a hair’s breadth from the edge will go faster. The result is a game that requires incredible precision and a fair amount of patience.
