Ryu’s Hyper Combo Shinku Hadoken pummels Polimar for 5606 Billion points of damage finishing the fight in a blaze of bright flashes and colour. Capcom are up to their old tricks it seems, but how we love those old tricks.
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Need To Procrastinate? Look No Further.
Following on from the addictive tendancies of myself, and most probably many other gamers, here is a short collection of simple flash games. You will postively not be able to press that little red cross, or red circle if you’re that so way inclined.
So here we are, a quick rundown of addicting flash games that’ll have that serious case of boredom cured, or even the ever popular growing CBAs (Couldn’t Be Arsed) and let you procrastinate until your little heart is content;
5; Canabalt
You’re a small man. Sprinting. Along rooftops. Escape the post-apocolyptic word. Just press X or C. How far can you get? This game can also be bought for your iPhone!
4; Nanaca Crash
OK, ignore all the crazy Japanese text, it’s just an illusion. Nanaca Crash is like many other of the games of it’s “genre”, but original in it’s content. Where else do you get to strike a young man and cause him to fly through the air, while bouncing off unsuspecting Japanese girls who can boost him further, or inversely, stop him dead? That’s the Japanese for you. Have a go and see what high score you can rack up. [I've only reached a modest 659.7M]
3; Basketball
I think it’s safe to assume that the majority of flash and web based games don’t really have a multiplayer aspect where you can play against fellow procrastinators across the world, but Basketball crosses that gap. It’s not 100% accurate in it’s title, as you would imagine you get to distract your opponents just like in the movie, but nope. Not in this game. Which is a bit sad. Still though, it proves to be addicting as you know you’re actually competing against 63 year old men in Slovakia or 9 year Taiwanese kids all jacked up on Coca-Cola.
You are Bobble, a lonely shark warrior who must defeat the evil that lurks under the depths of the ocean…Known as Giant King Crab. The goal of defeating the King Crab is to clear the name of sharks and prove to humans that it is indeed the crabs that are the true evil of the waters, and not sharks. Sound pretty intense? Just hold in “A” and use directional keys. Trust me, it’s tougher than it sounds. Epileptics beware, loads of flashing lights!
1; Miami Shark
Just click the link. Play. Watch hours go by. It’s too much fun.
DISCLAIMER: If you or anyone else who plays these games begins to form addictive tendancies and in result does not go to work, school, university or social gatherings, the author of this post is not responsible. The author has simply passed on the links for the reader’s pleasure. Please contact the developers of the games for lawsuits. That is all.
Bayonetta – Smack My Witch Up
Bayonetta – Smack My Witch Up.
(360 version reviewed) Review By Jordan Murphy
If you haven’t yet seen the bee-hive haired witch strutting around and pulling moves that puts Ulala and Lara Croft to shame then you’re probably still recovering from whatever happened to you on New Years. Bayonetta’s strong, sleek and oversexed character design aims to give us all a new feminine game hero to admire and play with.
Year of the Xbox: 2010
2009 was a strong year for the Xbox, with games such as Modern Warfare 2, Borderlands, Forza 3 and Left 4 Dead 2 the 360 saw its fair share of Triple A releases, that said 2010 is shaping up to be the 360′s strongest year yet.
January isn’t even over and we already have Darksiders, Bayonetta, Army of Two and Dark Void to keep us busy with Mass Effect 2 hitting in a matter days just in time to absorb a little more of our time.
So what do we have to look forward to?
Bike Hero… Fake?
I’ve been sucked into too many of these viral videos. I don’t know what to make of this one. It seems like it’d be much to hard to be real. Check it out!
Only 3 Days Until The Addiction Begins…
If you have played the original title from Bioware, you shall know exactly what I’m on about. If not, you might wanna check out this handy little video courtesy of IGN.
Mass Effect 2. Only 3 days until I lose another portion of my life to a game (Cheers World of Warcraft) We can just be thankful that it comes after the exam period. Think The Empire Strikes Back of gaming sequels. It’s gonna be epic, in the truest sense of the word.
So, set in 2183, action takes place pretty much directly following it’s predecessor, Mass Effect 2 brings back Commander Sheperd to zoom across galaxies in jamassive spaceships and go pew pew at aliens with big laser guns and sparkly visuals.
What has changed I hear you ask? Well, to be blunt, nothing groundbreaking or completely original, but, Bioware have built on the solid foundations of Mass Effect and made improvements all round. It’s like they have gotten their gaming amps and turned them all up to eleven. So y’know it’s gonna be good.
One notable improvement is that of the inventory and how the player can interact. No longer shall you spend tedious amounts of time on going through all your squad members, instead, once an item is discovered, it can be sent back to Normandy – Your uber cool spaceship – and it can then be cloned and made multiple copies of, thus allowing you to give it to all of your members. Neat, eh?
Apart from that minimal change, there are of course many others, some include;
- AI improvements – No more squad members getting stuck behind boxes and walls causing you to nerdrage at your screen.
- No more “overheating” of weapons. “Heat sinks” have been introduced, which is basically a fancy name for ammo.
- No more M35 Mako! My word, do you remember the controlling for that thing. Thank goodness Bioware listened to the players and decided to remove it entirely and replace it with a drop shuttle.
- New weapon types, now up to nineteen. Armour skills have been made away with, so no more class and restrictions.
With all the technical and tedious but interesting stuff outta the way, I can now state; I cannot wait for Mass Effect 2. If you’re like me, you’ll have spent the last week reliving the fun moments in ME1 and preparing your own personal Sheperd for the new sequel. Is anybody else annoyed that all the trailers have been a bit sexist, always portraying Sheperd as a big burly male? I have been. I want to see MY Sheperd in all her HD 1080p sexiness. God dammit Bioware!
Anywho, check out the proper official awesomeness of the Mass Effect 2 Cinematic Trailer found here; and I’ll see you g33ks shortly, hopefully with a review to boot.
