Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

#595 Lumines

Posted: 21st December 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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109th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: PSP Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Q Entertainment Publisher: Bandai, Ubisoft It’s been a long time coming but we have finally gotten around to writing up our first PSP game. We bought this together about four months ago and it has taken some time before we got around […]

#497 Burnout 2: Point of Impact

Posted: 17th December 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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108th played so far Genre: Driving Platform: Gamecube/PS2/Xbox Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Criterion Games Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment A racing game? Yeah. A sequel to another one. What does it advertise as its own special feature? High risk racing. Crashes. This isn’t about bashing cars out of the way to get past… although breaking them […]

#740 Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Posted: 13th December 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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107th played so far Genre: Flight Simulator Platform: PC Year of Release: 2006 Developer:  Microsoft Publisher: Microsoft And now for something COMPLETELY different. We have been playing a lot of games with guns recently (since to be fair many games have an affinity for guns or at least some form of weapon) so today’s game […]

106th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: PC/PS2/XBox Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Remedy Entertainment and Rockstar Vienna Publisher: 3D Realms In the previous installment of this series, we learned that Max Payne became an undercover agent, was accused of a murder he didn’t commit (although in the course of the game, he […]

#686 Gears of War

Posted: 5th December 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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105th played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Epic Games Publisher: Microsoft I know not how interested anyone is in our personal gaming histories… but this is a gaming blog so to hell with that I’ll divulge the personal information. The choice between 360 and Wii was […]

104th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Sucker Punch Productions Publisher: Sony There are many, many different platform gaming mascots out there. We’ve got the famous plumbers and blue hedgehogs, as well as dogs and birds, worms and space babes. In the future we’ll get more strange humans, […]

#597 Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Posted: 27th November 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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103rd played so far Genre: Action Platform: Gamecube Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Silicon Knights, Konami Publisher: Konami In the course of this blog we always enjoy debating whether or not a particular game belongs on the list but we were in complete agreement about this one: a resounding no. We are so adament about […]

#762 God of War II

Posted: 23rd November 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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102nd played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: SCE Studios Santa Monica Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Sometimes, thanks to the order in which we obtain these games, we have to play them out of order in a series. We’ve seen it before with games like Super Mario 64, where […]

#645 Façade

Posted: 19th November 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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101st played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: PC Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Michael Mates and Andrew Stern Publisher: N/A After all that celebrating and big names, we now go to something more experimental. Facade (please ignore the lack of cedilla from now on – while it’s in the name, it’s more work for […]

#357 Grand Theft Auto

Posted: 15th November 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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100th played so far!!! Genre: Action Platform: Playstation, PC Year of Release: 1997 Developer: DMA Design Publisher: ASC Games They thought we would never make it this far. They said we were crazy to even start this blog (and by they I mean me) but here we are at Game 100 which means that we […]