Jolly voxel-based isometric shooter Voxatron is now available, in its alpha form, as part of an Indie Humble deal. Not a bundle, just the offering of this one game, which is debuting today, at a price of your choosing. After this, it will be available for $15. I’ve been playing for a couple of weeks and reckon it’s worth every cent of that pricetag, but if you want it cheaper, now’s your chance. The graphics are lovely, as you can see in the new trailer below, but it’s the completely destructible world that most often made me want to applaud with delight, either dramatically when pillars collapsed or in the smaller detail of walls chipping away during fights. Imaginative and fun, this is a fine deal.
Bugbear Entertainment’s destruction-focused take on Namco Bandai racer franchise crashes onto Xbox 360, PS3, and PC early next year.
Namco Bandai has been overhauling its Ridge Racer franchise, and the results are almost ready for a road test. The publisher today announced that Ridge Racer Unbounded has been given a North American launch date of March 6, 2012.
Developed by Bugbear Entertainment, Unbounded takes the circuit-racing franchise onto city streets with a new emphasis on havoc and destruction. Players will be able to choose how they race through cities, both in designing the city layouts and opting to take shortcuts through storefronts when expedient.
Bugbear’s previous work includes the FlatOut series of demolition derby racers for Empire Interactive, which featured minigames requiring the player to crash such that the car’s driver would be ejected through the front windshield and into targets, such as a set of giant bowling pins. The studio also developed the PSP edition of Sega Rally Revo in 2007.
Unbounded will be the first installment in the Ridge Racer series to appear on the PC, and the first to hit consoles since the 2006 release of Ridge Racer 7, a PS3 launch title. However, the series hasn’t been completely dormant in the meantime. It debuted on the iPhone in 2009 with Ridge Racer Accelerated, and Ridge Racer 3DS launched alongside Nintendo’s newest handheld in March.
Saints Row the third now officially has EVERYTHING in it. Everything you expect from a video game, everything you couldn’t reasonably hope for and Burt Goddamn Reynolds.
It’s here and the rumour mill is already grinding away at full speed. Suggestions that Tommy Vercetti is the main character and San Andreas is the setting. Rumours also abound that this is only the story of one of four playable characters and 3 more trailers are to be released. Fingers crossed for more trailers, eh?
The sequel to the 2008 Japanese hit Otomedius Gorgeous.
Otomedius Excellent is a unique 2D side-scrolling action arcade game exclusive to the Xbox 360 that combines pretty girls with spaces ships. The game features nine characters that players can select from, Gradius-style gameplay, three-person multiplayer support locally and on Xbox Live, stunning soundtrack and improved graphics over previous games in the series.
The classic Gradius-style gameplay gets a stunning update in this new sequel. Environments are rendered in high definition and complemented with thrilling music. The game also features a gallery mode in which players can view their unlocked stills and graphics in a new gallery that grows as you progress through the game.
Battle your way across this 2D side-scrolling shoot-’em-up either solo or with your friends as you try to conquer the missions and attain hard-to-find items.
Team Fortress 2?s sinewy neck of content has been slashed open once more, pumping forth a bloody torrent of hats and features. It’s the third annual Halloween update, and it brings full-body costumes for every class (including a fantastic “teleporter gone wrong” Brundlefly for the Engineer), an update for classic King of the Hill map Viaduct turning it into Eyeaduct, which features dimension-jumping slipgates and a spooktacular boss fight with the Demoman’s demon-posessed eyeball, and finally another superb Halloween-themed comic book depicting the origins of said demon eyeball. It’s all still Free to Play of course, with the new costume items being found randomly throughout the map or available to buy immediately in the MannCo store. A short demonstration of the boss battle is after the jump.
