American McGee is best known for his work on DOOM, Quake, and Alice. The latter, which I found to be a deliciously twisted romp through the wonderland of Lewis Carroll. McGee’s past games have earned him an automatic “I gotta check out what he’s doing next” pass. His latest project is entitled American McGee’s Grimm and is a 24-part episodic game available exclusively on Gametap. New episodes are released every Thursday and will be available free to play for a 24-hour period, much like a television show. Grimm is based on the idea of “f’d up fairy tales,” with each episode centering on the corruption of a particular fairy tale, like Little Red Riding Hood or Beauty and the Beast. Gameplay is very simple and casual friendly. It plays kind of like Katamari Damacy in that you are guiding a character in a world with the objective of covering the most surface area possible. There is some light platforming as well.
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I gotta admit, Homestar Runner was a huge part of my college days. Every Monday my friends and I would eagerly wait for the latest animated Strong Bad email to be posted so we could watch and quote it for the rest of the week. Though I stopped following the site in recent years, I was still very excited when Telltale Games announced an episodic adventure game based on the Homestar Runner characters and world. After a two month delay, the first episode was finally released yesterday on Wii Ware and for the PC.
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If your only excuse for not checking out Jonathan Mak’s awesome “album of shooter games” was that you didn’t own a PS3, you have an excuse no longer!
Everyday Shooter is now available on Steam for the low price of $9.99 (or $8.99 if you buy the game this week). I never got around to writing up an Indie Game Spotlight for this game, but rest assured, it was one of the best independent games to come out in 2007.
The game is comprised of 10 different songs/stages, each with its own song, art, and play style. As you shoot enemies and create chain combos, you create new guitar riffs and sounds that layer on top of the music to create a seamless aural experience. It’s an awesome synthesis of music and gaming and definitely worth your time.
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