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A little less remuneration
by News Elvis (November 26th, 2010 at 9:30 am)
Uh-huh, thngyrvrmsh, omnomburghrburghrdrgsdrgs.
Issanr POGUHMRSAYRUNUP, a-huh. Continue reading this post…
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++ NAMCO = CHEAP ++
by NEWS ROBOT (November 25th, 2010 at 9:34 am)
++ OBSERVATION: RETURN OF NAMCO SALE ++
++ ENUMERATION: LISTED GAMES CONSIDERABLY / NOTICEABLY / NEGLIGIBLY REDUCED // DELETE AS APPLICABLE WITH STANDARDISED HOLE PUNCH ++
++ ACTIVATE PODGAMER NEWS ROBOT REPORT DESIGN MODULE ++
++ ACTIVATE PODGAMER NEWS ROBOT INTERJECTION MODULE ++ Continue reading this post…
Posted by NEWS ROBOT on November 25th, 2010 at 9:34 am
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++ GAMELOFT = CHEAP ++
by NEWS ROBOT (November 23rd, 2010 at 11:04 pm)
++ UPDATE: REDUCTIONS INCONSISTENT. ERRORS CORRECTED ++
++ OBSERVATION: RETURN OF GAMELOFT SALE ++
++ ENUMERATION: LISTED GAMES REDUCED TO 59p/€0,79/99¢ ++
++ INVENTORY: ASPHALT 5, BROTHERS IN ARMS (GLOBAL FRONT), HERO OF SPARTA 2, IRON MAN 2, LET US GOLF 2, NFL 2011, THE SETTLERS, SHREK KART, SPLINTER CELL CONVICTION, UNO ++
++ OBSERVATION: iPAD VERSIONS ALSO INCLUDED IN SALE ++
++ INVENTORY: ASPHALT 5 HD, BROTHERS IN ARMS (GLOBAL FRONT) HD, HERO OF SPARTA 2 HD, IRON MAN 2 HD, LET US GOLF 2 HD, NFL 2011 HD, THE SETTLERS HD, SHREK KART HD, SPLINTER CELL CONVICTION HD, UNO HD ++ Continue reading this post…
Posted by NEWS ROBOT on November 23rd, 2010 at 11:04 pm
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Get down! Get back up again! Zarjaz!
by J Nash (November 22nd, 2010 at 9:31 am)
Spiffo, I’ve been waiting for this to happen. Big Blue Bubble’s Thumpies is a superior rhythm game that benefits enormously from the specially composed music; instead of bongoing the grotesque chumpbundles around to your terrible taste in CDs, you “compose” a layer by following their dizzied bouncing and that’s then added to the soundtrack for the next sequence.
Promo shot; all of mine are rubbish because I AM TRYING TO MUSIC.
Meanwhile, butterflies flap around as the currency for unlocking (EXTRA CHARACTERS, extra characters, not levels) and you have to wriggle a skip in your conducting to net them before the tumbling beasties scoff the loot as they bob. (If you lose the beat altogether your entire bank escapes all over the screen promoting chaos.)
It’s altogether groovespangular and the game’s just plunged to an excuse-invalidating 59p/€0,79/99¢. If you’re still not convinced because you’re D Tomlinson or R Morley, you can try the three-level demo (with in-game unlock). There’s also an all-new iPad version that I’ve not played and is still £2.99/€3,99/$4.99.
(ALERT! The demo unlock didn’t seem to work for me and in fact I’ve been charged again for the complete version. I’ll sort that out now, but I’d recommend that if you like the demo then you buy the full game separately.)
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Assassin’s Creed
by J Nash (November 17th, 2010 at 9:00 pm)
Man, these things really drive home how tremendous Sands of Time is. Ever since Ubisoft nailed the third-person platformer with the revamped Prince of Persia (then banged that nail into a big coffin with Warrior Within for which I blame you, YES YOU PERSONALLY, the idiot non-Sands of Time buying public) everyone’s been copying the copy of a copy.
Including Ubi themselves: Assassin’s Creed: Altair’s Chronicles is currently on sale for 59p/€0,79/99¢ and has triumphantly forgotten nearly every single lesson established by its venerated ageparent. Continue reading this post…
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++ BITS & BEATS = CHEAP ++
by NEWS ROBOT (November 13th, 2010 at 1:05 am)
++ OBSERVATION: BIT.TRIP BEAT RECOMMENDED BY PODGAMER UNIT REVISION-STU ++
++ OBSERVATION: COMPETITOR BOUNCE BEATS ENJOYED BY PODGAMER UNIT C.R.A.1G ++
++ OBSERVATION: UNPREDICTABLY FLUCTUATING GAME PRICES CURRENTLY AT 59p/€0,79/99¢ EBB AGAIN ++
++ DIRECTION: BIT.TRIP BEAT ++
++ DIRECTION: BIT.TRIP BEAT HD ++
++ DIRECTION: BOUNCE BEATS ++
++ OBSERVATION: GAMES OMIT RHYTHM OF Z80 HUMMING THROUGH XOR ENCRYPTION ++
++ PODGAMER NEWS ROBOT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HUMAN MUSICAL TASTE ++
++ DECRY ++
++ DECRY ++
++ DECRY ++
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Go west. “You are likely to be eaten by a grue.”
by Craig Grannell (November 5th, 2010 at 7:04 pm)
Ah, Sunday afternoons with an 8-bit computer, a text adventure and INSTANT DEATH. What could be more fun? If your answer is “nothing, sir” and not “beating myself to death with a spanner”, you should probably download the rather spiffy, universal and suddenly very (but probably temporarily) free Frotz right this second.
Frotz is a Z-Machine interpreter, enabling you to play more text adventures than you can shake a stick at (including the original Zork). And if you’ve some Z-Machine files lying about on your (“Legally purchased compilations” – Ed), you can upload them via FTP.
Even better, because Frotz is universal, the iPad interface gives you a keyboard that doesn’t make your thumbs want to die after you’ve been playing Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy for five hours.
Posted by Craig Grannell on November 5th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
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Wormpocalypse
by Nathan Grayson (November 5th, 2010 at 6:14 am)
The zombie apocalypse is played out. Old hat. And I’ve come to terms with the nuclear apocalypse, so long as it makes the world exactly like Fallout: New Vegas. Point is, the end of the world is looking mighty anticlimactic these days. I need something new. Something different. Something like… a giant spiky worm? Sure, why the hell not.
You're a terrible person for simply looking at this screenshot, so just go ahead and buy the game.
Super Mega Worm‘s message is one I think we can all identify with: stop littering or a giant worm’s going to devour you. It’s a powerful and thought-provoking indictment of our current environmental policy – one that becomes all the more chilling when you consider that our wriggly pink Doombringer gains the power to blast lasers out of his mouth at level three.
Which is all to say that it’s wicked fun. Launching yourself out of the ground and skewering the squishy, screaming blood balloons otherwise known as human beings on your 32 rows of teeth is nearly as gratifying as it is sociopathic, and any game that uses live cattle as its central source of health is all right in our book. And hey, the full version’s only 59p/€0,79/99¢ right now, so why not? Plus, how can you say “no” to that face? The answer is that you can’t, because by the time you can see that face, it’s already too late.
Posted by Nathan Grayson on November 5th, 2010 at 6:14 am
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Magical (Price) Drop
by Craig Grannell (November 4th, 2010 at 6:52 pm)
Imagine a developer really liked Magical Drop, but thought (rightly) that Magical Drop for iOS was akin to a pile of fetid dingo’s kidneys. Imagine that developer then created a similar game that worked really nicely on iOS, boasting great controls and graphics, then turned it into a universal app, and then gave it away entirely for free!
Well, you’ll have to imagine that for a bit longer, because the rather spiffy Linkoidz isn’t free, but it is just 59p/€0,79/99¢ right now and very much worth the cash. Unless you hate Magical Drop, of course, in which case GO AWAY, FOOLISH PERSON LACKING IN TASTE.
Posted by Craig Grannell on November 4th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
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(Almost) cashless racing
by RevStu (November 3rd, 2010 at 2:16 am)
If you liked the sound of EA’s overhead-view hillbilly dirt-ride Reckless Racing when we reviewed it a few days ago, but were put off by the small amount of content available for the £1.79/€2,39/$2.99 asking price, then we’ve totally got some good news for you.
Sadly it’s not that it’s had another half-dozen tracks added to it, but that the price has been brutally hacked down to a mere 59p/€0,79/99¢. For that it’s practically worth having just to show off the sparkly teeny-tiny graphics to people. If you’re, y’know, really shallow. And you have a 4th-gen machine. And don’t mind playing every track several times on really easy settings before you can have a go at the hard opponents. But frankly we’d give them that much just to encourage the excellent control options. 59p!
