Posts Tagged ‘puzzle’

#819 Braid

Posted: 14th August 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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262nd played so far Genre: Puzzle/Platform Platform: PC/XBox 360 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Number None Inc. Publisher: Number None Inc., Microsoft Game Studios Some games have an initial concept and description that make the game more interesting from that alone. Braid is one of those. While essentially a platformer, the game introduces manipulation of […]

224th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Internet Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Colin Northway Publisher: inXile Entertainment Today a short one. While waiting for Everquest to download (who’d imagine that a 13 year old game would require a 7GB+ download? At leastย  it’s not Aion… that took all day to get) we searched for […]

#811 Auditorium

Posted: 7th March 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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222nd played so far Genre: Puzzle/Strategy Platform: PC Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Cipher Prime Slightly more tenuous as an internet link, Auditorium is available for download on Steam, iOS and other places. It started out as a flash game though, and the demo is still available as such. For the reason why this matters, […]

#824 Cursor*10

Posted: 27th February 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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220th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Internet Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Nekogames For those of you who keep up with MMORPG, you might have realised we recently got a slight shock. While it’s closed down when you read this, we only recently found out City of Heroes was closing down. With that worry, […]

#994 VVVVVV

Posted: 18th January 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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210th played so far Genre: Puzzle/Platform Platform: PC Year of Release: 2010 Developer: Terry Cavanagh Regardless of your thoughts of the Humble Indie Bundles they have been an absolute godsend for this blog. By being generous (oh we love to give) we have been able to grab a lot of games off of the 1001 […]

#983 Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Posted: 25th December 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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204th played so far Genre: Adventure/Puzzle Platform: DS Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Level-5 Publisher: Nintendo First of all, merry Christmas to all our readers! We hope you have a great time with family, friends or other people you want to spend time with, and that your presents were good (and filled with great video […]

#782 Portal

Posted: 27th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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197th played so far Genre: Puzzle/Action Platform: PC/Xbox 360/PS3 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Valve Publisher: Valve Memes. A term that first arose in the 1970s when Richard Dawkins wanted a term to apply to how ideas, catchphrases and other such items of culture can quickly pass through a populace. In the age of the […]

#859 World of Goo

Posted: 7th November 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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192nd played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: PC/Wii Year of Release: 2008 Developer: 2D Boy Publisher: 2D Boy Okay, this is a game listed in the book for both the PC and the Wii but in reality we played it on an iPad. There is no real reason for this other than price and the […]

#399 ChuChu Rocket

Posted: 16th September 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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179th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Dreamcast/GBA Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Sonic Team Publisher: Sega Right now we’re writing you from a bank holiday weekend. With this meaning that Peter has some more time available (having planned ahead) and the general weather being grey, wet and miserable, we decided to put this time […]

#334 Final Furlong, #269 Puzzle Bobble

Posted: 7th August 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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As you have undoubtedly noticed we are, once again, doing two ames in one post. We did this two months ago after trawling the arcades of Piccadilly Circus so what could that mean? It was a grey Saturday. Slightly chilly and there was some spits of rain in the afternoon… so of course this is […]