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//February 8, 2010 • Retro Reviews • Comments • Written by Kelly
Hey all, glad you guys liked my top 10 must have games for the Dreamcast, thank you! I noticed you wanted more Dreamcast articles so here one is, a retro review of Chu Chu Rocket!
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February 6, 2010 • Uncategorized • Comments • Written by Spanjj
Attention Peons, there’s another 7Bit Audiocast ready to invade your eardrums. Its been a while, for which we can only apologise, so heres to hoping our latest gaming musings make up for this delayed little nugget. Kaplow!
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Piracy is a big deal these days. Somalians have taken piracy to the next level by taking down boats and holding innocents for mass amounts of money. Pirates have recently been raiding our screens in the form of Johnny Deep’s swashbuckling ways. More soooo though, piracy of media is now on the rise so much that it has become a crime that brings with it a fine that is higher than GBH and Abduction. Only this week, did global hacker superstar George Hotz find a way to hack the PS3 so that it was possible play hacked games and also homebrew games. With all this in mind I want to take a look at piracy and how it is, or isn’t damaging the games market.
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Apologies for my absence last week gang (it’s OK, I know none of you really noticed, but don’t we all just want to be loved?), but I’m back now, and before I vanish into the hazy sleeplessness of a 48 hour Mass Effect 2 binge I found the time to share some thoughts on a totally different game.
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Whilst sitting on a sofa after a rather heavy evening, one would think that you should rest those weary grey cells and watch mind numbing tv. Instead, taking on the murders in Little Riddle seemed more enticing, however much it would cause us to curse the events of the night before.
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Playing thatgamecompany’s Flower got the cogs in my skull whirring. Nothing too profound, a mere question in fact.
“What the cock am I actually playing here?”
Try to categorize Flower and you might come up with a completely new genre of game. Some might call it a puzzler but if locating flowers constitutes as a conundrum then I should be getting achievement points for using the kettle in the morning. Read More…
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Polarbit’s ‘Fuzzies’ is essentially Lemmings for the iPhone so before calling fowl it is worth noting the utterly disappointing ‘Lemmings Online’ currently available on the iTunes Store. This attempted remake did not meet our Lemming needs so Fuzzies makes a welcome addition to the fray. Read More…
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Gerbil, ah, generally a child’s first pet, so how does Pencil Games pay tribute to these small furry wonders? By sticking a bomb under their arse. Okay, don’t go calling PETA just yet, its all in the name of puzzling (plus its a game, and they will laugh down the phone at you, lets all avoid that embarrassment shall we?)!
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The first thing you’ll notice about Candy Cane’s Fuzzle is it’s extreme lack of fuzzyness. It is about as hairy as a snake. I can only conclude that the name inherits from a combination of the words fun and puzzle and it is indeed a fun, puzzle game. Fuzzle is a turn based game that requires the player to move balls around the screen in order to line up five or more balls of the same colour and make them disappear. The aim of the game is to survive as long as possible before the screen is completely covered in balls. Read More…
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Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Never taking heed of numerical convention I approached this game not long after finishing Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. If anything should be taken from this instalment it is how well tuned Naughty Dog’s sequel is. However looking at the original as an isolated product it is still worth picking up. For those unfamiliar with the series you play as Nathan Drake, a cheeky treasure hunter of sorts, in a third person shooter/platformer reminiscent of the Indiana Jones franchise. Read More…
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“Flick it! Pull it! Twist it! Press it! Shake it!”
That might of sounded true of a certain ‘Bop It’ game we all know very well, at least until we get to the ‘press it’ part. Essentially ‘Do-It’ is Bop It for the iPhone with a couple of additions to the gameplay. Read More…
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January 19, 2010 • Reviews • Comments • Written by Dan Renton
Steam is a wonderful thing. Valve’s digital distribution service lets you get your hands on all sorts of gems that you probably otherwise wouldn’t have discovered. Torchlight is one such treasure that occupied my time over Christmas ‘09.
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You may or may not be familiar with Peggle and Bejewled. These internet indie behemoths have been ripping it up for a few years now across the tubes.
Plants vs Zombies is perhaps the piece de la resistance of Popcap Games, the progenitor of those previously mentioned modern classics.
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Its time for the second installment of 10 Must Have Games For The Dreamcast. We are down to our top 5 games ladies and gentlemen, lets carry on with number 5!
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Ahh, the SEGA Dreamcast, the little console that still has a warm spot in your heart 10 years after its release. There are so many great games for this console its hard to think which ones to buy (this is important because the economy is officially in the crapper). So here’s me to the rescue with my *deep voice*… my Top Ten Must Have Games For The Dreamcast.
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Ah, to be a young ‘un again. Headbangers ball was good, showing Danzig, Sepultura and ‘Tallica, makes me a little moist remembering that. Yes I was a metal kid and at heart, I still am. So when a game all about metal comes along, it is time to rejoice. Unfortunately, timing was not on it’s side and it got list a little in the pre Christmas shuffle. So post Christmas it’s time to right these wrongs.
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January 14, 2010 • Reviews, Uncategorized • Comments • Written by Spanjj
OK now I’m sure some of you will see the game and feel a rush of nostalgia but not me I’m afraid. I’ve played my fair share of point and clicks, all the Monkey Islands, all the Indiana Jones, Loom… but I never happened upon this one. So alas I can’t really review it for how true it is to the original, however it is the first point and click iPhone game I’ve played and I want to see how this genre transfers.
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The history of the recent Ghostbusters was not a walk in Central Park for anyone concerned. Starting off as a project back in 2006, Ghostbusters was an idea in the eye of development company Zootfly who sadly had forgotten to participate in a key bit of licensing. They couldn’t get were not bothered did not have Sonys approval. Whooops.
Sony then of course thought to themselves, hmmmm, this game seems to be getting a lot of positivity from the internet crowds, so they met with Sierra and Terminal Reality, a new developer, about the possibility of creating a game. Then after a year of ums and arrs about whether the game was still to be cancelled, at CES 2009, Sony confirmed that the game was still on their release schedule. So with a bit of history in a nutshell, the PS3 and 360 versions were born, well just about.
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Video games allow us to do things in a virtual world that we’re unable to do in real life. Whether it’s Slam dunking from the three point line or practicing for the eventual Zombie apocalypse, it’s an escapism. Every now and again though things can get a little close to home, but how close is too close? Here’s what I mean…
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So let us put this in perspective. There are some games that you can’t play on your own so when it comes to reviewing Buzz, it should be reviewed within the context for which it was made. So with this in mind, what better way to test it than to get a few friends in, some beers (some wine, some spirits and some cider) and give it a good ole testing. You will see why that Buzz became such a hard to find gift Christmas Past and situations resembling Arnie in Jingle all the Way occured.
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Good Tuesday to you all, it just happens to be the day that the 7 Bit Arcade podcast has decided to yet again rear its ugly, but somewhat quite good looking head. This time there is more to listen to as we talk and investigate everything and anything to do with games. This weeks episode includes all of this fine stuff:
It’s Stevie’s Birthday on this rather special 7BitArcade podcast as he reaches the fine age of 12 years old (according to some sources).
Birthday Shenanigans include messages from The Newb Review, Pink & Deadly, Gamer Dork and the Frugal massive. Eden is assaulted numerous times for straying past his line but is also congratulated for buying his first bit of virtual real estate.
Subjects include Dragon Age, Pie Catapults, Demon Souls, Susan Boyle Cannons, Blood Bowl, Balloons, Lego Rock Band, Shallow Hal, Brutal Legend, XBox Woes, Dead Space, Ass Creed 2, Karate Monkey, Game Demakes, Beneath a Steel Sky Remastered, Virtual Space Stations, Shatter, New Years Resolutions, Army of Two, Unthinkable Sequels, Modern Warfare 2, Dark Void and the Vancouver Olympic Games.
Yes, that is a lot of subjects. What you gonna do? Wanna fight about it?
Listen Right Now, Right Here!!!! (or below)
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If you are one of the poor souls who has either never perused Steam’s indie catalogues, or just had the misfortune of missing this particular gem when it was released in 2008, allow me to introduce the all singing, all dancing king of PC rhythm games (it may be a small category, but Monaco is a small country, and I bet we’d all like to be King of Monaco).
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Thats right folks, we only had to reach the end of a decade before I finally completed Dead Space. The deed is done, the witch is dead and I’ll tell you what she did not go down easy. The survival horror genre has come a long way in the last ten years and in terms of the fear factor this game really hits the peak.
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Being aged 13 to me, reminds me of two things. The first, Alice in Chains, amazing band – probably in my top 10 of all time. The second was Blood Bowl. For those who have no idea what the hell I am talking about, Blood Bowl is an American Football spin off from Warhammer, the table top strategy game by Games Workshop. In short its a board game where you face off teams of Orcs, Dwarfs and all other kinds of creatures in a very violent interpretation of the NFL. But what made the game more fun, was that post match, you would engage in a weird hybrid of football manager and Dungeons & Dragons. You could level up players, gaining new abilities or mutations, attract star players or buy equipment such as steam rollers and chainsaws for your players to use in the next match. This then caused a group of friends to have leagues and tournaments over the holidays. Some kids had Subbuteo, we had Blood Bowl.
So, what happens when an once loved table top strategy game becomes a video game?
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7 Bit Arcade is an ever growing adventure into the sub conscience of games and gamers so as this journey gets more and more perilous, we need to employ more brave adventurers. Today, we have taken on board Miss Kelly of Stanford, she is regal hence the of in her name, to continue this crusade.
This will mean more content, more laughs, more spelling mistakes to comment on and point out like you are gods gift to grammar. Roll on 2010.
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It is around midnight on boxing day and I am lying on the floor in my makeshift bedroom at my parents house. Like the majority of the world I am regretting all of the food and drink I have forced my body to digest over the past two to three days. iPhone in hand it’s time to review a game that I have been meaning to review for a while. What better time to play a game that requires zero intelligence, much like the typical Christmas television schedule.
A.D.D is a game that has become famous for the amount of time it took apple to actually approve it to be on the app store. Rumours for six months to a year floated around the Internet with no report actually giving an answer written in stone. Whilst writing this I contacted IUGO to see if they could answer this riddle.
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Thats right ladies and germs I (Spanjj) have whored myself out to the Newb Review podcast. I joined Alan (braindead_hero) and Chell (Chellemo) from the Pink and Deadly podcast for a bit of a natter of what tickled our taste buds in the gaming world this year. Give it a listen on the Newb Review site right here.
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Once upon a time I had a Megadrive and stacked next to it was a great tower. The tower stood tall and proud and within it there were many, many cartridges, each containing a little bit of win. Many years later I find myself looking down at a cartridge(ish) size handheld device containing 20 little Megadrive game gems but I find myself thinking which I would choose if given the choice…
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Clocking in at around 2 hours game time, the Dragon Age DLC Warden’s Keep seems to offer decent value at 560 Microsoft points. Looking at my Xbox friends list, it seems others agree. I would compare it to one of the many base of operation DLCs available in Oblivion. The idea is to clean out a castle of nasties earning yourself a few goodies exclusive to the download and in the process gaining a nice little homestead (and don’t forgot a total of 50 extra gamerscore on the Xbox or 2 more trophies).
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Like exercise... but virtual... Phew!
Remember when you first saw Mirror’s Edge and thought “that looks amazing”? Yeah I do, I also remembered when I first played Mirror’s Edge and thought “I feel sick”, then “why do I feel cheated by this game” and finally “yes I would like to trade this for store credit please”. So bottle up those bad memories for another day. Canabalt is here to make it all better.
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