Tower Defense FTW

How interesting is it that “Tower Defense” has become a game genre? Currently, I’m playing three separate games in that genre. That’s a lotta tower defensing. Firstly, Popcap’s Plants versus Zombies. When I initially heard about the game, I wrote it off. I was never a huge fan of Peggle or Diner Dash, and despite […]

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Starcraft II Battle Report

I’m looking forward to the release of Starcraft 2 quite a lot. Blizzard just released a new “Battle Report” showing a multiplayer game between two Blizaard employees, and it’s one of the best Starcraft battles I’ve ever seen. Take a look – very entertaining.

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Keepers: Dungeon Keeper

Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge […]

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Five Poorly Rated Games that I Enjoyed

Video game reviews are big business now. And while I really didn’t want to get into the games review business when I started Lungfishopolis, I feel a need to bring peoples’ attention to a few games which got a lot of terrible reviews, but which I found to be very good games. I’ve played all […]

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Free Game Friday: Dungeon Defender

I’ve always been a huge fan of Bullfrog’s Dungeon Keeper. And while the official sequel was a failure, we’ve always got Dungeon Defender to fall back on. Dungeon Defender quite obviously draws its roots from Dungeon Keeper. You play the overlord of a dungeon, which you can dig out using imps minions. You can use […]

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Scattered Thoughts on Game Difficulty

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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Pixeljunk Monsters Strategies, Part 3: The Monsters

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 […]

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Pixeljunk Monsters Strategies, Part 2: The Towers

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 […]

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Pixeljunk Monsters Strategies, Part 1: Pro Tips

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 […]

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Spore Will Help Keep PC Gaming Alive

I’d been planning to write this week about the different platforms on which Spore is going to be available as of this Sunday. I’d been planning on discussing the potential pros and cons of each platform and asking readers on which platform they’d be playing Spore. I’d been planning to do this… until I went […]

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