Review: Skullgirls (XBLA, PSN)

Posted on May 9, 2012 by WesternMonster

Skullgirls is a beast of a classic 2-D fighting game. It features lush hand-drawn “Dark-Deco” visuals by the mind-blowingly talented Alex “o_8” Ahad (think Guilty Gear or Darkstalkers), and a robust and technical six-button fighting system designed and overseen throughout production by none other than tournament legend Mike “Mike Z” Zaimont. This game even has music designed and composed by what can possibly be considered the best music man in the industry, Michiru Yamane (who was responsible for my favorite soundtrack of all time, Castlevania: Symphony of The Night). Skullgirls features a motley cast that includes a head-throwing catgirl and a ninja nurse. It has a sadistic mutant “Betty Boop” squaring off with a scantly-clad satanic lass named Parasoul that beats people with an umbrella.… Read the rest of the article

Diablo III Open Beta Weekend Begins Today

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Scott Burton

Blizzard is pleased to announce the Diablo III open beta weekend, which offers open access to all players with a valid Battle.net account! Beginning this Friday everyone is invited to log in and help us put the game and servers through their paces in this three day stress test as we march toward the game’s release on May 15. You can begin downloading the Diablo III client right now.

From Friday, April 20 at 12:01 p.m. PDT (noon), until Monday, April 23 at 10:00 a.m. PDT you’ll be able to log in, team up with friends, and play each of the five heroic classes to level 13 as you fight to save the world from the impending demonic invasion.… Read the rest of the article

Review: The Splatters (XBLA)

Posted on April 12, 2012 by WesternMonster

The Splatters is Spiky Snail’s incredibly addictive physics-based puzzler. Essentially, this is what happens when you take one cup of Angry Birds, a handful of The World of Goo and a pinch of UniRacers and mix them over a low flame until the porridge coagulates into the thick soup. Throughout the game you aid several goo-balls in their life goal of spilling their jellied masses against bombs, rocks, spikes and walls in a colorful display of assisted suicide. As you destroy these icky little fellows you rack up points based on the stunts you manage to perform and how many bombs you explode on each blob’s way to their timely demise.… Read the rest of the article

Contest: Win Xotic on Steam

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Scott Burton

The wonderful folks at WXP Games has given us some copies of Xotic to give away for Steam. In order to win them, you have several options.

#1 – Visit http://store.steampowered.com/app/92600/ and download the demo and post your thoughts here. One person will be chosen randomly to win a copy. Also post your Twitter name if you have one.

#2 – Watch our Twitter account and retweet the contest tweet for a second chance to win a copy of Xotic. Winners must be following @gameinterface and @Xotic_Game in order to win.

Winners must be sure to post with a valid email when entering the first contest.

Winners will be chosen and notified via email or Twitter.… Read the rest of the article

Contest: Win The Price is Right: Decades (PSN)

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Scott Burton

Right now, we are givng away two fabulous prizes!
In order to win, you either have to post on this article your Twitter name (if you have one)
and your favorite Pricing Game from The Price is Right for Playstation 3 on PSN.

The other way to win is to follow our Twitter account and retweet the contest message when we say to.

A winner from our Twitter contest and our contest on here will be chosen on Friday, 10PM CST.

Winners will be notified by email or Twitter.
Please be sure to use a correct email address when posting on here.
Not doing so could jeopardize your chance to win the game.… Read the rest of the article

Review: Defenders of Ardania (XBLA)

Posted on April 10, 2012 by WesternMonster

It seems as of late there is somewhat of a resurgence of tower defense games, with games like South Park’s Let’s GO Tower Defense Play and Plants vs. Zombies. These games have simplified and stream-lined the typical formula and have seen moderate success for doing so. Paradox Interactive and Most Wanted Entertainment have decided that stripping the meat off of the bones of such a hearty class of games was anything but sensible. Defenders pits you in the role of what seems to be the worst king in gaming history, a solemn sap that left his kingdom to be overrun by drunk trolls, wise- cracking skeletons and your typical mythical bounty of magical beasts and mythical creatures.… Read the rest of the article

Review: Anomaly Warzone Earth (XBLA)

Posted on April 9, 2012 by keklar

The odds are good that if you’re reading this and have been an active gamer the past few years you’re probably tired of all of the tower defense games. One game that came out last year, however, strove to switch it up a bit to get everyone’s attention, becoming a sort of reverse tower defense, even tower attack, game. Originally released on PC/Mac, Anomaly Warzone Earth from 11 bit studios has traveled to mobile platforms and now made its way over to a console through XBLA. It looks really great on a big screen and is a nice challenging game.

The player takes direct control of the commander of the 14th Platoon and leads mechanized units into battle.… Read the rest of the article