Games Revue

id Software today announced that it has begun production on Doom 4, and is now in the process of expanding its internal team of developers to work on the shooter sequel.

“Doom is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth,” — id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead

“It’s critical for id Software to have the best creative minds in-house to develop games that meet the standards synonymous with our titles.”

the game will be cross-platform and available for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360,using the new id Tech 5 engine for the project.

id will also be hosting the 13th annual QuakeCon convention on July 31.

Awesome news, let’s hope you don’t have to drop your weapon to use the flashlight in this one, heh.

Doom 3

Boomshine
Boomshine is a casual but highly-addictive Flash game. Click the screen to start a chain reaction and try to burst as many dots as needed to pass a level. The game contains 12 levels ranging from the easy to the hard (it takes the average player 25 tries to finish level 12!).

MIGHTY JILL OFF
DEFENDING THE QUEEN’S
TOWER IS NO EASY TASK,
BUT JILL IS A LOYAL
SERVANT, DEDICATED
AND CAPABLE.

THE QUEEN, HOWEVER,
IS RATHER FINICKY
AND DEMANDS SHOWS
OF LOYALTY.

WHEN THE QUEEN SAYS
“JUMP”, JILL SAYS
“HOW HIGH?”

JILL CAN JUMP QUITE
HIGH INDEED, AND
SHE’LL NEED TO IF
SHE WANTS TO PROVE
HERSELF TO HER QUEEN.

That’s the premise in a nutshell of “Mighty Jill Off” a  free platform jumping game where you guide a cute little lesbian sub to reach the heights where her demanding queen lives. The game features lovely artwork by James Harvey.

Click here to visit the creator’s site and download Mighty Jill Off

Yes it appears to be True, DC heroes versus Mortal Kombat is going to be a reality very soon as you can see from this trailer

Unfortunately you won’t be able to do a fatality on Batman or Superman, which probably would be the biggest draw of this game. Oh well…

A cool little offbeat game in the spirit of Metal Slug, it’s CANNON CROTCH! versus Hitler. Fun!

Play Cannon Crotch


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GLtron Homepage

Remember that movie Tron from the 80s? If you’re not old enough to have seen it when it came out, you might’ve seen it on TV sometime. The premise was that programs are alive inside the computers and when a programmer is disintegrated and scanned into the computer by an evil AI he finds himself fighting alongside a rebel program called Tron. The graphics were really spectacular for the time, but being computer generatd they have long since become obsolete, and yet since they were so stylized and trying to create a completely fictional world, they still have a lot of charm.

Obviously nowadays it doesn’t take millions of dollars in computer equipment to render a few primitives, so an enterprising programmer (Andreas Umbach) took it on himself to reproduce one of the more impressive set pieces from the movie, the light bike battles, in which the programs raced high speed motorbikes that turned at right angles, leaving behind solid walls of light against which they had to make their opponents crash.

The reproduction of the movie’s visuals and the feel of the gameplay is spot on, and since it’s freeware and doesn’t require massive processing power, you really have no excuse to try out GLtron

This demo video for the new upcoming game Fez shows it’s new revolutionary game mechanic, while at first it appears to be a standard 2d platformer, you can later move around in a 3d world, but the trick is you can switch back to 2d and move in a flat world to reach places that aren’t linearly connected, much like a M.C. Escher painting in movement.

Fez is a finalist of the independent game awards festival

The new Alone in the Dark is set to have an amazing array of interactive options for your player to modify the scenery in creative ways, check out this demo version to see how you can break objects apart, pick up pieces, light them on fire, tip over objects, control them with fine detail, etc…

Alone in the Dark

Apparently someone is making a portal style game with several new enhancements, such as movable portals that can be picked up as objects, and scale variant portals, where the size of objects changes as they go through the portals, as well as adjustable gravity. It looks pretty amazing!

The game will run on the ogre engine. It’s not known yet whether it will be freeware, but likely at least the betas will be free to play.

Faith Fighter, from Molle Industria  is a cool little funny fighting game where you can control your deity of choice: Jesus, God, Buddha, Ghanesh, Vishnu and even Mohammed, though you’re given an option to hide his face (Don’t think that’s going to save you guys if the fundies get a hold of this, but at least you tried).

And if you get to the end, your fighter gets to oppose the great lord Xenu in hand to hand combat!

Trailer for the up and coming new Armored Core game (What is it, the fifth now?) This one seems to have taken a leaf from shadow of the collossus with huge antagonists. Looks neat!

Armored Core 4