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Skin and Bones

Skin and Bones is a lovely looking platformer from Addictive247. It’s another of those games that has grabbed me because of it’s wonderful use of pixel graphics and simple gameplay.

The name of the game is also the names of the characters. Skin is a young boy, easy to kill …

Top games of 2007: List-tastic!

I’ve been meaning to write this for about a month, so sorry it’s a bit late ;-)

In December and January you always get people making Top 10 lists of their favourite games and I built up a collection of links to some of them as follows:

Arcade Town

ArcadeTown has made a …

Bionic Commando 2D video

I used to love Bionic Commando on the C64 and I saw Ben’s recent 3D videos but this 2D video excites me more as it feels closer to the original:

Hopefully it’s just a cracking good action platformer :-)

The Underside, some gameplay

Tim from indygamer has recently posted a new video of The Underside.

This game bears a strong resemblance to a certain platforming game that goes by the name of Cave Story… but it also brings with it it’s own elements. In the developers own words…

i originally wasn’t going to show this …

Nanostray2 (shoot ‘em up) for DS Trailer

I love old skool shoot ‘em ups so what I saw this trailer over at www.the2bears.com I got very excited at the thought of being able to play it on my DS. I reckon the DS is perfectly suited to these sort of games so I’ll shall be …

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