Holy Umbrella (Platform, SFC)Imagine that you're playing some platform game, like Super Mario Bros. You are jumping around and whatnot. Now imagine that there is a jump that Mario can't make. But if you press the R button, you can switch to Luigi, who can easily make it. Just don't forget to switch to Toad when you land, because he is much shorter ( Read more... )

In a new interview on Gamasutra today, Treasure's CEO Masato Maegawa revealed that Microsoft has asked the famous Japanese developer if it would remake Radiant Silvergun for Xbox Live Arcade.

DO IT

In November 2006 I posted a list of what I figured were good reasons to buy an Xbox 360. I offered eleven tiny synopses of eleven games, most of which had not yet been released, mostly because I felt that the system wasn't getting any attention from certain kinds of people that it should have been. Now, a little over two years later, I am confident ( Read more... )

If anyone is wondering why there wasn't a Hallowe'en post this year, it's because I was too busy having the time of my life. But rest assured, November ruined it.

Imagine Lars Ulrich wearing a Metallica shirt. Now imagine Lars Ulrich walking down the street in a Metallica shirt. Isn't that basically the same thing as walking around another country in a shirt with the flag of your country on it ( Read more... )

Ano means yes

There are Canada Geese in the Thames

THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal--the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the ( Read more... )

Saw (for more than 30 seconds, and could identify by name later) Genesis ( Read more... )

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