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Childsplay 2006

Childsplay has recently started it’s 2006 run. Childsplay is a charity drive created by the guys over at Penny Arcade, to bring toys and books to children’s hospitals around the world. You can read more on their about page.
The UK hospital is the Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust - Alder Hey and I have sent […]

Geometry Wars Clones RoundUp

Tim, over at Indygamer, has done a round up of Geometry Wars clones. A lot of the games he mentions are great but not all are clones since they were developed well before Geometry Wars was released (Mono and Mutant Storm being the ones I know that were definitely first).
Anyway there are some very good […]

Bonbon Quest

For a downloadable Indie PC game, Bonbon Quest, by Oliver Pearl, is pretty unusual. At first glance it appears to be a cutesy platform game about collecting sweets, but actually it’s quite a tactical game about killing monsters and making carefully timed jumps. You are some kind of boy wizard and must venture thought various […]

Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam - videos

The first Tony Hawk’s game on the PlayStation was an amazing thing. It created a new genre (extreme sports games) and worked it to perfection. The sequel was better still. Each game since has improved in various areas but generally they are now feeling less and less enjoyable.
Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam looks to change this. […]

New Zelda videos - trailer and intro

You have probably realised by now how much I am looking forward to the new Zelda game.
It’s coming out soon (early December) so I will stop doing preview videos then. Until then you will have to put up with my excitement. Of course that won’t be the end of the talk about Zelda. Naturally I […]

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