PSA – Get the Ms. Splosion Man Demo Early

Science is a funny thing. It seems every time someone makes a ‘sploding man in a lab, the next logical state is to make one that you can fuck. Cue Ms. Splosion Man, the Ms. Pac-Man treatment to the hit XBLA title Splosion Man. Pretty clever huh? What will we see next, Splosion Man Jr.?

Anywho, don’t wait like the rest of those chumps to get your grubby paws on the pink, because the demo is secretly available NOW!

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E3 2011 – 505 Games

We got a chance to sit down with 505 Games and check out their latest projects — Michael Phelps: Push the Limit (Kinect), Grease (Kinect), Top Gun: Hard Lock, Supremacy MMA, Backbreaker Vengeance, and Blackwater (Kinect). Impressions after the break.

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Review – Swarm

When my girlfriend first told me about a game that involved you controlling a group of aliens to complete obstacles, I thought she was talking about Pikmin. When she mentioned that you’d have to kill off the aliens in order to complete said obstacles, I got really excited at the idea of a sadistic Pikmin. Sadly, no such thing exists. Instead we have Swarm, the latest arcade title from developers Hothead, and it’s pretty dang awesome. So much so that I’m honestly surprised how little I’ve actually heard about it up until I started playing it.

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GolgoHypeMachine – Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes HD

Capybara, the genius developers behind Superbrothers: Sword & Sorcery EP and Critter Crunch, are brining their immensely popular Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes to XBLA and PSN. For those, like me, who missed the first go-round on the DS, the game plays kinda like a RPG adventure board game with combat that fuses puzzle and card-fighting elements, all with new sprites done in glorious HD.

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GolgoHypeMachine – FEZ

Fez is a fresh take on a classic 2D platfomer that allows players to rotate the world around them to find new areas and solve puzzles. Developed by Polytron Corporation, Fez features retro-inspired graphics, a wonderfully composed soundtrack, and gameplay somewhere between Super Paper Mario and Echochrome. This little beauty has had my interest since it was debuted as a proof-of-concept video over three years ago.

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GolgoHypeMachine – Moon Diver

Moon Diver, formerly known briefly as Necromachina, is on its way to PSN and XBLA. It’s a four player co-op side-scrolling platformer with RPG elements that plays like Castlevania meets Strider. Kouichi Yotsui, the lead designer and planner for Strider and Osman, is at the helm for Square-Enix on this project. Excited yet? I am.

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GolgoHypeMachine – Islands of Wakfu

Square-Enix and Ankama Group are bringing the world of Dofus and Wakfu to XBLA with Islands of Wakfu. Islands of Wakfu is a dungeon crawler beat-em-up bullet hell co-op RPG. Sounds good to me!

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