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[Review] Shattered Haven – It Does Things To Kids

When Yami went around the Twinfinite offices offering up the new games for the week, she asked which ones everybody would be willing to play. I chose Shattered Haven because I had no idea what it was. Seriously, if you take a look at screenshots, it clearly is some post apocalyptic game, but you’d really have to squint to figure out what it does.  Wanting to try something a bit different in my life, I jumped at the opportunity to [...]

[TSFT] Episode #48 Interview with ‘Anodyne’ Developers!

Welcome back folks to another exciting episode of the TSFT Podcast. This week, we bring you up and coming developers Jonathan Kittaka and Sean Hogan to talk about their upcoming indie title, “Anodyne.” The Zelda-like top down retro-adventure game looks great, and we had the opportunity to play through the first three dungeons. The varied world design and intricate puzzles are looking to make this one promising indie title that you won’t want to miss. Hit the jump to help [...]

[News] GOG Launches ‘End of the World’ Sale

How would you spend your last 24 hours if you knew the world was coming to an end? For me it’s a toss-up between partying, hunkering down with my family, or finally getting into The Witcher 2. Speaking of the latter, GOG has truly broken the seal on its holiday sale by marking down over 125 games at 50-80% off. They are available as individual titles or as bundles, and there are some amazing deals to be had. As is [...]

[News] Balls Of Deal: Duke Nukem 3D Is Free From GOG

You know Christmas is just around the corner when ridiculous deals on PC games start popping up. GOG gets the balls of steel (okay, I’ll stop with that) rolling by making the classic FPS Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition available for free. All you need to do is have a free account set up, and it’s all yours – no DRM, no hassles. Along with this, GOG’s Holiday Sale is now in full swing and just about everything they’ve got [...]

[News] CD Projekt RED and Gog.com Special Event to reveal new IP

On Thursday Oct 18th 18:00 GMT, CD Projekt Red and Gog.com will be broadcasting their “Special Event” on facebook.com/thewitcher and  www.gog.com. At this event, CD Projekt Red, the developers of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, will be announcing their new game “based on the classic pen & paper RPG Cyberpunk”. More information will be given on the new IP as well as on the upcoming release of The Witcher 2 for OS X. Gog.com will also be announcing their transfer of their [...]

[Review] Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers

Is it possible for something to be original and derivative at the same time? Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers, a new puzzler/platformer from Black Pants, is a game of contradictions that alternately presents a broad yet shallow world with inventive yet unnecessary gameplay mechanics. On one hand, this is a unique, colorful, and funny concept while on the other, it is an amalgamation of very distinctive aspects ripped from some very popular games from the past few years. From the [...]

[Review] Resonance

Adventure games have had somewhat of a resurgence in recent years. Thanks to studios like Telltale Games as well as distributors like Steam and GOG, old-school gamers have been given the opportunity to revisit some of the classics from years past, and younger ones who missed out the first time around get to see what the hype was all about. Along with the old classics being reissued, developers are taking the basic tools of the genre and using them to [...]

[Retrospection] Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar

Respect the Architects. Two years following the near-death of video games in 1983 and just before their resurgence via Super Mario Bros, I was an 11 year old who had somehow convinced my parents to get me a Commodore 64. To this day, i have no idea why they actually buckled and got it for me. I guess it must have been cheaper than Ritalin or something.

[Overlooked Gems] Second Sight

On just about every video game forum on the Internet, there is invariably a thread about which video games would make a good movie, who should play which character, who should direct, etc. I tend not to participate in that discussion because it presents the attitude that video game narrative can’t stand up on its own, and speaks to the contradiction in which gamers desperately want to be accepted by the mainstream while being incredibly cynical and suspicious when the [...]