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  • Assassin's Creed for iPhone demo impressions 

    phokal 5:06 pm on July 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    The first thing you are greated to is a cg cinematic when you play the regular version of Assassin’s Creed. When you load the iPhone version you are greeted to a movie of the regular version’s gameplay. Right down to targetting cursors appearing on characters running around the screen.

    The gameplay itself is solid; the biggest hurdle is the virtual joystick. Either you will be able to deal with it or it will break the game for you. Try the newly launched demo/free version to test this.

    Otherwise it is a nice looking platformer (for a phone game). Though, I did notice my battery drop pretty quick while testing out the demo.

     

  • Evangelion: 1.0 

    steez 8:00 pm on July 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    Title: Evangelion 1.0
    Release: July 17, 2009
    “There was no foreseeable warning before it happened — a catastrophe of unparalleled scale and magnitude overwhelmed the entire globe. This event, recorded in history as “The Second Impact,” caused half the population of the Earth to perish and devastated the world. All that remains of Japan is Tokyo-3, a city that is now being attacked by giant creatures that seek to destroy mankind. These creatures are called Angels. Fourteen year old Shinji Ikari is called to Tokyo-3 by his father who he hasn’t seen in more than eight years. He is asked to come to the NERV headquarters to meet his father. His father reveals to him a gigantic humanoid weapons system that the special governmental agency has secretly developed to fight the Angels and then orders Shinji to pilot the giant artificial human Evangelion Unit One. With the fate of the world resting on his shoulders, how will the 14 year old boy Shinji fight? Wht is the truth behind “The Human Instrumentality Project,” an operation somehow related to the “Second Impact”? And who is the true enemy? The Angels, NERV, the mysterious SEELE, or the demons held within the hearts of the people involved? Gendō Ikari, a man who holds many answers to these questions, watches silently and attentively as his son fights a desperate battle…”

    Trailer found here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/evangelion10/

     

  • Movies: District 9 and Apple Trailers 

    steez 7:52 am on July 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    DISTRICT 9-

    XXXXX Stars

    XXXXX Stars

    I will def. be seeing “District 9″ August 14.

    Apple Trailers also has some hot movies. Check em’

     

    • phokal 9:11 am on July 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Ahh, the X’s are stars. Now I see why you linking twilight. I was going to have to delete that otherwise.

  • Lucasarts Adventure games coming to Steam 

    phokal 12:04 pm on July 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , lucasarts, monkey island, point and click

    My next post was going to be how I got my old copy of Grim Fandango running on Windows 7.  I may, however, just wait for Steam to solve this problem for me.

    Some old Lucasarts adventure games are coming to Steam; I’m hoping Grim is amongst them.

    Thanks, Kotaku.

     

  • Game Club: Idea - Who wants to play Grim Fandango? 

    phokal 5:39 pm on July 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: game club,

    Lately, I’ve been thinking of playing Grim Fandango. I’ve also thought about turning this into a more social experience: a game club (like a book club).

    The game would be Grim Fandango, and the subject would be “Why did adventure gaming die?”

    Some may say adventure gaming isn’t dead. Syberia, Indigo Prophecy, Telltale’s Sam and Max revival are all critically well received. They are, however, never compared directly to The Longest Journey or Grim Fandango; the last great classic adventure games.

    Whether adventure games died due to archaic mechanics, that other genres incorporated adventure mechanics into themselves, or the average gamer’s attention span has simply shrunk, Grim Fandango should help in this examination (and be fun to play).

    I’m thinking play could be 1-2 hrs a week with a weekly posting here on the blog for discussion. Throw in meeting in person roughly once a month, and you have a book club.

     

  • Facebook 3.0 for iPhone 3.0 

    phokal 4:55 pm on July 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Here it is:

    Facebook 3.0 for iPhone 3.0 almost complete

    Check it out. Looks good, but will lack push until 3.1
    http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/07/01/facebook-for-iphone-30-coming-soon-preview-and-details/

     

  • Battlefield 1943 is coming 

    phokal 4:53 pm on July 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: battlefield, bf1943, psn,

    Next week, XBLA and PSN will have BF1943; and Xbox Live enforces a trial be available.

    I would suggest grabbing that trial and giving it a shot.  It will probably be an excellent multiplayer shooter with 4 maps.  Expect future map packs to cost as much as the full game.

    Thanks,  Evilavatar

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  • Go Play Trine with a Demo on PC 

    phokal 3:55 pm on June 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Seriously.  Go try this out.  Currently out for PC, but will be available on XBLA later (and I think PSN?).

    Thanks, Evil Avatar and ActionTrip

     

  • Steam weekend deal: Heroes of Might and Magic clash with Zeno Clash 

    phokal 3:15 pm on June 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Heroes of Might and Magic, , , Zeno Clash

    steamWD mightMagic VS. steamWD clash

    This weekend sees some pretty good games get decent discounts: Heroes of Might and Magic V + Expansions, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, and Zeno Clash.  You can pick them up individually, or in packs.  It looks like it may be cheaper to pick up Dark Messiah and the HM&M5 pack separately, rather than together in a single pack.

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  • Why I like Prototype 

    phokal 1:58 pm on June 19, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: chuck norris, ,

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/19/

    He has a valid point.

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