James gets his hands on the Steam controller!
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Video James – Goat Simulator @ GDC2014
James gets his can eating on.
Video James – Trestle @ GDC2014
James talks Trestle, the self described Mega Man Battle Network crossed with Super Crate Box
Video James – Tetropolis @ GDC2014
James found time in his busy GDC schedule to find an excellent new game. Tetropolis mixes Tetris with metroidvania conventions. Let’s watch!
Episode 97 – Devastation Everywhere
Embrace the despair of Dark Souls 2, the destruction of Titanfall, the sadness of The Dragon Cancer, the hard reality of This War of Mine, the confounding shapelessness of Dominique Pamplemousse and the fractions of Frog Fractions 2. All this and more as Simone joins us for our most devastating episode ever!
Crowd Funding Picks
Ben: Duelyst
Simone: Dragon Fin Soup
Paul: Frog Fractions 2
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Show notes after the jump.
Overlooked Gem: ZombiU
A few months ago, I wrote a two-part article recommending thirteen post-millennium horror games I had played and enjoyed (see part 1 here and part 2 here). Well, I better now increase that number to fourteen, as since the time of writing I’ve played ZombiU and it’s easily one of the best horror games I’ve experienced for a long time.
Developed and published by Ubisoft and released exclusively on Nintendo Wii U as a launch title for the system in 2012, ZombiU is a first-person survival horror game set in London sometime after a zombie apocalypse has devastated Great Britain and left England’s capital teeming with the hungry undead, who are still much less ignorant and pushy than many of the people who crowd the London Underground every day in reality.
Top 5 – Games with Time Travel
Why is no one ever impressed by my ability to travel forward in time? I bring technologies from the recent past! Why is nobody amazed? I lost an entire weekend in the time well for nothing.
Next Week: Top 5 briefly burning fires
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Elevator Pitch – Gunscape
Guns! Shooting! Levels with guns made for shooting! Gunscape isn’t just about shooting it’s about creating… and then shooting! We chat to Aaron Grove of Blowfish Studios about their incredibly fun FPS and construction set Gunscape.
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