I’ve been playing games for a long time. As a kid, I played Pong at my next door neighbor’s house on his pong machine, before he ever got ColecoVision. I played Crazy Kong on the old arcade machine at the Cumberland Farms on Rt 69 where I used to buy Chocodiles. And I played the […]

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Deaths is a brief but entertaining game. The catch is that you’re expected to die. A lot. The fifty last deaths of players all around the world is sent to your game via the web – and you’ll see the corpses on screen. You can play through the whole game in fifteen or twenty minutes, […]

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Here’s a little secret about me.  I wanted Rock Band primarily for the ability to sing.  Oh sure, I wanted to play guitar like I did in Guitar Hero and GH2, and I was curious about drumming, what with it being similar to real drumming, but what I really wanted to do was sing.  I […]

Read the rest of Why Rocking the Mic Is the Only Way To Rock

We’re not in the habit of doing game reviews here at Lungfishopolis, so I’m phrasing this in terms of game remakes, and what makes them good. Yeah, I know it’s still more a review than anything else, but let’s pretend it’s not. M’kay? I’m so glad that video game remakes haven’t gone the way of […]

Read the rest of Dragon Quest 4: A Brilliant Case for Remakes

S.T.A.C.K.E.R. is a bit of an odd game: a Tetris knockoff masquerading as a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. knockoff. But it’s fairly entertaining. The blocks that drop can be enemies, weapons, armor, or other useful or harmful items. It can seem a bit complicated at first, but it’s really not a bad game once you realize what’s going […]

Read the rest of Free Game Friday: S.T.A.C.K.E.R.: Nuclear Scavenger

In the first part of my Pixeljunk Monsters strategy guide, I covered gameplay strategies. In the second, I went into detail on the game’s towers and how best to use them. In this final segment, I’ll deal with the monsters and the inner workings of their lives. It seems like every online guide calls most […]

Read the rest of Pixeljunk Monsters Strategies, Part 3: The Monsters

In part one of this article, I discussed general gameplay strategies. Now, let’s take a closer look at the game’s individual towers. For your convenience, I’ve also created a printable pdf quick reference guide. Yeah, it’s really ugly – I know. Arrow Tower The only tower in the game (other than a hive) that can […]

Read the rest of Pixeljunk Monsters Strategies, Part 2: The Towers

Perhaps I’m a bit late to the party on Pixeljunk Monsters, but since I bought it from the Playstation Network store, I’ve been playing it constantly. It’s like crack. Not that I’d know what crack is like. What I mean to say is that the game is pretty damn addictive, and the demo’s free. We […]

Read the rest of Pixeljunk Monsters Strategies, Part 1: Pro Tips

Parts one and two can be found here and here. As I made my way down to the hotel lobby for dinner, I was thinking about how I really didn’t want to go to this dinner. I’m not a social person, and meeting new people while having to be professional didn’t appeal to me on […]

Read the rest of Confessions of a Games Journalist: The Preview Trip pt 3

Today’s Free Game Friday special is a long-time favorite of mine. Taking the best aspects from that era’s Ultima and Bard’s Tale games, Wasteland improved upon them and created something unique. In the post-nuclear world of Wasteland, you create a party of desert rangers, assigning points to their pistol, SMG, assault rifle, and other various […]

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