
"Unapologetically bloody and violent."
I have an amusing personal connection to Prototype. Back when Jeff and I were first putting together what would later become GamerPops, we looked at the release schedule for May/June 2009, and two titles we were excited to check out: Sucker Punch’s inFamous and Radical’s Prototype. Both games offered the potential for open world gameplay, and “cool” antiheroes with...
Gogo’s Crazy Bones were first popular back in the 1990s, and while not quite carrying the retro credibility of other toy lines to make a resurgence, Crazy Bones are popping up in playgrounds and school yards across America. Highly collectible, cheap, and cute to boot, the Crazy Bones have also been brought to the Nintendo DS courtesy of Game Mill Entertainment and Black Lantern Studios. On...
One of the neat things that Sony is doing with the PlayStation Vita is the idea of PS3 and Vita integration. Some games will allow you to play them on the PS3, then save to the cloud and continue your game on the go with your Vita. StarDrone Extreme (and its PS3 counterpart StarDrone) is one such example. It’s a Sci-Fi puzzle adventure game set in space where all kinds of crazy stuff is...
As my first review on the mobile platform I decided to review the biggest game in the universe right now, Draw Something. It seems like everybody I know is playing this game. Originally developed by OMGPop it was just purchased by mobile/social game giant Zynga. Touted as being the most downloaded mobile game in the history of mobile games I decided to see what all the buzz was about.The Parent...
The prevailing wisdom in game development is that it is much safer to bet on an established property rather than try something new, and the middling success of fairly recent new properties titles like Blur, Split/Second, and ModNation Racers (one killed a studio, one almost killed a studio, and one got shelved in favour of the nearly identical LittleBigPlanet Karting) is a testament to that. So...