36th game played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: PC/iPhone Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Area/Code Sometimes all you need is a decent puzzle game. Today’s blog post, Drop7, is our first puzzle game in a while. It also helps that since Final Fantasy VIII took us an age that we could spend an afternoon on […]
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#810 Audiosurf
Posted: 9th January 2011 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2008, dylan fitterer, music, pc, puzzle, steam
17th game played so far Genre: Puzzle/Music Platform: PC Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Dylan Fitterer Publisher: Steam (online), Ascaron (hard-copy) Many games have been released that have tried to capitalise on visualisations of music. We will be covering a bunch of these later on but Audiosurf already does something that they can not; create […]
#650 Meteos
Posted: 3rd January 2011 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2005, bandai, DS, nintendo, puzzle, q entertainment
15th game played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Nintendo DS Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Q Entertainment Publisher: Nintendo and Bandai Most puzzle games are hard to describe, no story, gameplay that doesn’t make sense outside of the puzzle, and just general weirdness… but here goes nothing. Meteos is a puzzle game where blocks fall […]
11th game played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: PC Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Popcap Publisher: Popcap This was not a game we actively scheduled this early on (since we rely on a mixture of a random number generator and personal choice) but it came out of a rather slow evening when I had a […]
#189 Columns
Posted: 19th December 2010 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1990, arcade, genesis, mega drive, puzzle, sega
10th game played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Arcade and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega This is a game from my youth here. My first console was a Sega Mega Drive and Columns was one of the first games that I had on it (alongside Cool Spot and Sonic […]
#777 Peggle
Posted: 4th December 2010 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2007, DS, internet, pc, playstation 3, popcap, puzzle, xbox 360
5th game played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 2007 Developer: PopCap Games Publisher: PopCap Games PopCap have made a household name for themselves by developing games that are mindnumbingly addictive. This is because the concepts employed are so simple, yet profitable, it makes you wonder how other game developers have restrained […]