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Found Cave Story, so Im'a goin' Spelunky-n'

The past week’s gaming had a retro platforming vibe, mostly due to two games: Cave Story and Spelunky.

More (or download ‘em) after the break…

Want Yoda kicks?

Saw some Star Wars themed Adidas kicks while walking around the mall. There were only 2-3 models on display (Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, and something else that’s… black). Looking through the official catalog showed me this:

Answer to the question above:  WANT!

BTW, the collection’s intro video is a nice mashup of clips from the movie, [...]

Traversing the dungeons of Torchlight with Sheryll and Ranka

Unleashing unrestrained devastation to the unending hordes of beasts and hellions in the surprisingly cavernous, well-lit dungeons of Torchlight, essentially an exercise in gambling for marginally improving stats, while listening to an unending loop of Macross Frontier’s JPOP divas, is utterly engrossing.  Sheryll Nome’s encouraging “FAITOs” dare me to press on. “Let me know what [...]

Chiptunes, 8bit retro-style music alive in the age of the interwebs

Whenever I try to remember when I started to really pay attention to music, the image (or rather, the sound) that comes-up is always Nirvana.  Of course, the truth is we’ve been bombarded by music since being in utero (pardon  the pun (^^;) ).  Theme songs, commercials, jingles, mandatory music to learn at school, we [...]

Can your PC handle SFIV? Let’s benchmark!

Yep, a benchmark.  Nope, not a demo, a benchmark.  Hoookaaayyy…

It’s not playable, at all, unless you count the ability to play with the settings (resolution, anti-aliasing, detail levels, shader options, etc).

Engaging the benchmark will run you through several pre-”choreographed” fights.  Each new fight seems to use more detail than the previous one.  After all the [...]

BattleForge Play4Free

Although I dislike the artificial inflation of prices typical in collectible games, I must admit that some of them, notably MtG, is extremely well made.   So, this game’s concept, collectible cards to be used for RTS style battles, piqued by interest ever I heard about the beta, but somehow I never got around to trying [...]

Take D&D 4e for a free spin to see if it’s for you

So you’ve been hearing about this D&D thing for some time now, and particularly how this “4e” thing is supposed to be more newbie/video-gamer friendly.  But you just can’t justify shelling out more than US$100  just to see if something you already find iffy is actually a gem.  Fortunately Wizards of the Coast (WotC) is [...]

Warmachine MKII Rules Ready for Field-Testing

[update] The link seems to have been set to restricted access for quite some time now. I can’t find the files anywhere in their official site.  The MKII book is already out, though, so you can always get that.

— [update] —

Privateer press decided to release the complete MKII Rules and Model Info for download.  Although [...]

Street Fighter IV Training Manual Available for Download

I managed to try out Street Fighter IV on the PS3 last weekend, and I must say I’m pretty happy with it.  I haven’t played it long enough for the negative aspects of the game to start revealing itself to me (maybe check-out David Sirlin’s blog for an idea of possible pitfalls), but so far [...]

World of Goo avaliable in Linux!

Read it from Kotaku. 2dBoy’s World of Goo (my personal Game of the Year for 2008) is now available on Linux.  Unfortunately, this is only valid if you buy/bought the game from their site , but I’m sure they’re working out the Greenhouse/Steam ports as well.

For now, get the linux version at 2dBoy’s site!  If [...]