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The Tale of Two Dungeon Crawlers – Torchlight & Death Spank trailers

Andrew Bryant — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:58:57 +0000

Just like the humble adventure game, dungeon crawlers are seeing a bit of a resurgence of late – obviously there’s Diablo 3 on the horizon, which like all things Blizzard is set to swallow any indie bystanders in its all-consuming wake of fan-gush, but set to arrive ‘before it’s done’ are both a sequel to a perenial favourite and the long awaited next game from an industry great…

Torchlight

Wild Tangeant may be hated for their casual gaming shovelware and trojan-esque game launchers, but they often get a few things right. One of those things was Fate.

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PAX 2009 Trailers

Andrew Bryant — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:56:44 +0000

Never before has a post title so essentially decided the tags I attach too it!

PAX 2009 has just finished and, swine-flu not-withstanding, it was a success.

There’s a metric ass-load of trailers after the cut, some of which require you to prove that you were born on January 1^st, 1900… You have been forewarned!

Scribblenauts is still looking fantastic and if they don’t consider porting it too the PC, i’d happily buy a DS somewhere down the line to play it. It’s innovation like this that is driving the industry!

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Bat Mentality – Left 4 Dead 2 ‘Dark Carnival’ footage

Andrew Bryant — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:52:24 +0000

Despite what everyone’s opinions on the ‘early arrival’ of the sequel for Left 4 Dead, it doesn’t change the fact that Valve are at least trying to make the game different, what with the proper melee weapons (with added violence), new and more radical special infected (mainly designed around weeding out the exploits of the first game) and uncommon common infected who force you too mix up your playstyle a bit.

Still, I wish they’d stop demoing the game on the farking Xbox 360 (or at least get someone talented to play it)…

Thanks RPS & GameTrailers…

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Gore Whore – Shank information, trailers

Andrew Bryant — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:42:21 +0000

Klei Entertainment (Eets) next game is Shank. Shank is like a hyper-violent Streets of Rage TOO THE MAX! We like Streets of Rage and we like hyper-violence, so it’s got most of the bases covered.

Described as an ‘over-the-top action/adventure’ with ‘amazing control, great animation, immersive environment, and everything else that we feel like, and none of the stuff we don’t’, Shank is due on multiple formats (presumably XBLA, PS3 & PC) when it is done.

Debut Trailer and Gameplay footage after the cut.