Playing a “falling blocks” puzzle game has never been that cool!
Gamelion released today the first official trailer of upcoming title Block Cascade Fusion for minis on PlayStation Network. The game is currently in its final QA stage.
Block Cascade Fusion
Block Cascade is a very addictive puzzle game which lets you enter compelling world full of different falling blocks. The goal is to create a line of at least five similarly colored blocks by rotating and arranging the falling squares properly. Once the timer stops, the fusion will start and erase linked blocks. The basic concept is simple, but there’s a fair amount of depth to the game, especially if you’re aiming for a high score. Points are awarded according to the size and number of blocks that are cleared from the screen during the fusion. Great visuals glow and respond to your actions! Perform combos to score high enough, and you’re in for a treat!
Key features
• Addicting Gameplay – The well-known idea of arranging falling bricks is combined with the different way of removing properly matched blocks, what makes the game very compelling and absorbing.
• Trophies to Achieve – Players can achieve multiple trophies in five different categories for their exceptional performance.
• Multiple music tracks – Many different cool electronic sound tracks are included to make the gameplay more pleasant – rave, dance, trance, electro styles are present.
• Different bricks sets and backgrounds – Game switches bricks’ sets and backgrounds from time to time to avoid player’s boredom with looking at the same bricks all the time.
• Special Effects – Special graphical effects accompany every bricks removal.
Indie PC Kart Game Zero Gear available for pre-order
Zero Gear is now available for pre-order! Players who pre-order will get 25% off the price of the game, as well as immediate access to the beta version! Visit the Zero Gear product page for pricing information and package deals. Zero Gear is slated for release on January 12th, 2010.
Zero Gear store page: http://myzerogear.com/store.htm
Zero Gear will be released on Steam January 12th for the low price of $19.99. Bundle packs are also available for additional discounts!
Zero Gear is physically-fueled, online multiplayer PC kart combat madness. Deck out your kart and character before jumping into one of many different game modes. Outrageous kinematic gameplay and weapons make every round a blast. The potential for tiny vehicular mayhem has never been so humongous! Boost, flip, spin, and slide your way to victory!
Indie developer Safari Studios has just released Creed Arena onto XBOX Live Indie Games, a dazzling new shooter with some unique game mechanics.
In just 3 days of sales, Creed Arena has already surpassed many other games on the channel. XBOX shooter fans from around the world are hailing Creed Arena as the best indie shooter around.
Fetatures include:
• 16 unique arenas, each with a different challenge
• Solo Championship – become the most popular gladiator in the tournament
• Splitscreen Co-op – play through the game with a friend
• Online Multiplayer – try to get to the top of the global popularity chart
• Splitscreen Online Multiplayer – 2 people can play online together
About Creed Arena
Fight other gladiators infront of thousands of spectators. Become the most popular fighter in the tournament. Win enough fans to unleash your “crowd rage”, an intense rampage that makes you bigger, faster and more powerful. Unique weapons, 16 arenas, and intense action in solo, co-op and online muliplayer..
Big Blue Bubble Inc. announced today that their newest WiiWare release, Pub Darts, is now available on the Wii Shop Channel. Experience the camaraderie of your local pubs’ dart night without leaving your living room!
Pub Darts is a simple and fun darts game using the Wii’s unique controls to mimic the dart throwing motion. Players will find themselves immersed in the ambient din of the local pub, playing for the most prized of all rewards; bragging rights! Players will step up to the line to play some of their favorites including 501, Cricket, Around the Clock, Killer, and Baseball. Multiplayer mode pits up to 4 players against one another in a battle to see who is the Ultimate Pub Darts Champion!
At only 500 Wii Points, Pub Darts is now available to US customers on the Wii Shop Channel. The worldwide release will follow.
Features…
• Controls feel just like throwing a real dart!
• Players select their avatar image from a collection of creative characters!
• Up to 4 players!
• 5 Exciting games to play!
• Cozy Pub environment.
Digital Leisure Inc. announced the launch of Fast Draw Showdown, designed exclusively for Nintendo’s WiiWare game service.
When it comes to fast draw there’re only two types of people: the quick…and the dead! Now you have the chance to find out where you stand, or lie, as the case may be. You’ll go up against the best quick draws in the business, including one of the world’s fastest, Wes Flowers.
Unholster your Wii Remote and show’em who the fastest draw really is, in this live action shooter – a first for the WiiWare service! Once you’ve mastered your shootin’ skills, take on all your friends to see which of you really has the quickest draw.
You’ll need some serious speed and awesome accuracy to take on these gunslingers…so get ready for some real fast draw action!
Fast Draw Showdown is available today in North America and later this month in Europe, exclusively on WiiWare for 500 Wii Points.
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Should old acquaintance be forgot? We can’t remember. But what we can remember is that this week’s downloadable lineup from Nintendo asks a lot of questions. The Nintendo DSiWare™ service wonders if you can master missiles with Trajectile™, lead animals to their proper pens with Animal Puzzle Adventure or match wits with TV chef Gordon Ramsay in Hell’s Kitchen Vs. The WiiWare™ service puts you in charge of maximizing your rubber duckie output with Heron: Steam Machine, asks you to aim for the bull’s-eye with Pub Darts and wonders if you have an itchy trigger finger with Fast Draw Showdown. Finally, Final Fight™ 3 on the Virtual Console™ service makes you wonder if the fight is ever really final.
Nintendo DSiWare Trajectile Publisher: Nintendo Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points™ Description: Trajectile is a puzzle game that’s as much about firepower as it is about brainpower, requiring you to line up your shot and launch a flurry of missiles at enemy targets. Three types of missiles are at your disposal, each one with its own characteristics – but all of them can bounce off walls on their path to smash, blast or drill through enemies and blocks. Along the way, you’ll find item blocks just waiting to be destroyed so that you can obtain special power-ups … and cause even more destruction. Be careful though, as missile type and position are predetermined and you get only a limited number of launches per stage. Complete multiple classes containing numerous individual stages, earning medals when you clear stages in fewer than the given number of turns. Are you ready to take aim at becoming a Trajectile master?
Animal Puzzle Adventure Publisher: Aksys Games Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Mild Suggestive Themes Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Animal Puzzle Adventure is a simple puzzle game where you have to lead various animals to their respective barns placed on the map, while avoiding pitfalls and cliffs and using the objects on the field to your advantage. There are 10 stages per level with a total of five levels, creating 50 stages in all. After clearing a stage, you unlock a piece of a photo. Once you clear all 10 stages in a level, the wallpaper for that level becomes unlocked and you can then view it in the gallery. With so many puzzles to unravel, you’ll find yourself immersed in the puzzle-riffic world of Animal Puzzle Adventure.
Hell’s Kitchen Vs. Publisher: Ludia Players: 1-2 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Hell’s Kitchen Vs. is based on the U.S. TV phenomenon where world-renowned chef Gordon Ramsay puts aspiring chefs through rigorous culinary tests. The game recreates the show’s pressure-cooker atmosphere as two players battle head-to-head in an arcade-style kitchen challenge. Try to conquer your opponent in each time-management test, while taking the heat of Gordon Ramsay judging and rating your performance at every stage of the game.
WiiWare Heron: Steam Machine Publisher: Triangle Studios Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Wii Points™ Description: Heron: Steam Machine is a game about a factory where rubber duckies are being produced by a large steam engine. On this steam engine, there are four different gauges which you will have to watch carefully. By connecting the pipes, you will earn points and relieve some of the pressure, keeping the machine running just a little bit longer. If one of the gauges reaches its maximum, the machine will eventually blow up, and the game is over. If you were lucky enough to achieve a high score, make sure you enter your name in the list so other players can compete with you. In Multiplayer, you are able to cooperate with friends in maintaining the steam machine. When you play with two, three or four players, the screen is divided into sections with different background colors. Each player is able to solve his or her own part of the puzzle. Players are restricted to their own section of the screen, so you will have to work together to make the pipes fit properly. (Additional accessories are required for multiplayer play and are sold separately.)
Pub Darts Publisher: Big Blue Bubble Inc. Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Alcohol Reference Price: 500 Wii Points Description: Pub Darts is a simple darts simulation which uses the Wii Remote™ controller’s unique controls to mimic dart-throwing motion. The game is set in a local pub where the players will settle in to play some of their favorite dart games, including 501, Cricket, Around the Clock, Killers and Baseball. Controls function just like throwing a real dart. Players are able to create their own personal profiles, including selecting their avatar image from a collection of creative characters and the design they would like displayed on the dart flights.
Fast Draw Showdown Publisher: Digital Leisure Inc. Players: 1-2 ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Alcohol Reference, Violence Price: 500 Wii Points Description: When it comes to fast draw there’re only two types of people: the quick … and the dead! Now you have the chance to find out where you stand, or lie, as the case may be. You’ll go up against the best quick draws in the business, including one of the world’s fastest, Wes Flowers. Unholster your Wii Remote controller and show ‘em who the fastest draw really is, in this live-action shooter. You can even take on a friend in multiplayer modes, and see which of you has the quickest draw. You’ll need some serious speed and awesome accuracy to take on these gunslingers … so get ready for some real fast draw action.
Virtual Console Final Fight 3
Original platform: Super NES™ Publisher: Capcom USA Players: 1-2 ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Animated Violence Price: 800 Wii Points Description: Following the defeat and subsequent disappearance of the Mad Gear Gang, a small group known only as “Skull Cross” is responsible for a new uprising of vandalism, terrorism and death. The government of Metro City is at a complete loss. Metro City’s mayor, Mike Haggar, and Guy are prepared to take on the new gang, but before they can act, the door bursts open, revealing Lucia, Cody’s old friend. “Metro City is under attack!” she shouts, “Skull Cross is loose, and they’ve got something up their sleeves.” But before any of them can move, a mysterious man appears in the doorway. “My name is Dean,” he says. “I know Skull Cross inside-and-out, and I hate them more than anything. I can help you, and you can help me. We must go!” All four fighters vow to bring Skull Cross down. It will be a tough assignment, and may even be their final fight!
Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in either the Nintendo DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.
Remember that both Wii and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit Wii.com or NintendoDSi.com.
Evolution Dreams Studio is about to launch two brand new games, Avatar Quest and Pirate Mayhem, both to be released January 2010 on Xbox Live Indie Games. And the developers of the studio want to share their happiness giving away tons of tokens of their previous XBLIG: Words in a Word, Bomb Disposal Expert and Planet Delta.
But there is more as their friends of Ninja Fever, the developers of Dual Zone, want to collaborate giving away some tokens as well in this Awesome Giveaway.
So, here is the deal, Evolution Dreams Studio is giving away… 50 tokens!! The biggest XBLIG giveaway of all time!!
Kaotik puzzle is an action-puzzle videogame for up to two players versus, in which you win by filling your opponent screen with blocks. You will receive blocks from your opponent. When there is no free space in you screen you lose. You can defend yourself by arranging the blocks to make them disappear, so you make more free space. When you make disappear your blocks creating chain reactions, you will send attacks to your opponent.
When you start the game, you have to select one of the six characters available. Each character makes the game different, by changing the kind of cursor, the kind of attack and the way you have to arrange the blocks to make them disappear.
Game rules:
Each player has a screen make of 6 x 12 empty spaces. In the screen, colored blocks appear from the bottom to the top. By arranging the blocks on a certain way (depending of the character), the blocks disappear, and the blocks in a higher place will fall down. If the player doesn’t make disappear the blocks fast enough, the screen will be full of blocks and the player will lose.
When a player makes disappear at the same time, more blocks than strictly necessary (called combo) the extra blocks will be send to the opponent screen in a way of garbage blocks. The kind of garbage blocks is different based on the character the player is using.
When the player makes disappear the blocks, and the higher blocks fall in an arranged way, those will disappear too, making a chain reaction, which send garbage blocks to the opponent in a higher quantity than a combo.
About characters:
Six characters are available in Kaotik Puzzle. They are designed in a nice and friendly way. Each character is a set of a kind of cursor (the tool you use to move the blocks), a way of arranging the blocks (how you have to arrange the blocks to make them disappear), and a kind of garbage blocks (the kind of attack you will send to your opponent).
The characters are the Cyborg, the Ninja, the Gangster, the Scientist and the Cowboy.
About cursors:
There are 5 different cursors:
- One block cursor:
When the player uses this cursor, it can exchange the block on the cursor with the one just on the left, right, higher or lower block.
- One block cursor (picking):
This cursor allows the player to pick a block and carry it on the cursor to any other place. When you pick another block, it will be exchanged with the one you are carrying.
- Two blocks cursor:
It allows the player to exchange the block in the left side of the cursor with the one in the right side.
- For blocks cursor:
It allows the player to rotate the four blocks on the cursor in clock-wise or counter-clock-wise.
- Six block cursor:
It moves the six blocks on the cursor (the whole row) to the left or to the right. The block on the last place will appear on the first place.
About the game type (or the way to arrange the blocks):
To make disappear the blocks you have to arrange the blocks depending on what character the player has chosen. The game types of the characters are three connected (in any direction), three in a line, and four connected. When you a playing in two players versus, you can freely choose from nine different ways.
About the attacks (or garbage blocks):
There are six different garbage blocks, one for each character.
- Unknown color block:
They are gray blocks with an interrogation symbol. After some seconds, they become normal blocks. The stronger the attack is the longer will stay in gray.
- Bombs:
They are shiny back balls that bother and fill the opponent screen. A bomb disappears when a normal block disappears next to it.
- Stronger bombs:
They look like the normal bombs, but more shiny. When normal block disappear next to a strong bomb, the bomb becomes a normal bomb. Basically the stronger bombs are like bombs the twice harder to make then disappear.
- Discs:
Discs are like the normal blocks but in a circle shape. They won’t disappear if they are in the disc shape. When a normal block disappears next to a disk, the disk becomes a block.
- Numbered blocks:
They are black blocks with a colored number inside. When a normal block disappears any place on the screen, the number on the block decreases. When the number gets to zero, it becomes a normal block.
- Time bombs:
These bombs have a timer that looks like some marks filling a circle. When the timer is full, the bomb explodes, leaving nine normal bombs. You can “dissemble” the bomb by making disappear normal blocks next to it. When that happens, the bomb gets kicked out of the screen.
2K Games announced today that Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot*, the second game add-on content developed by Gearbox Software for the highly acclaimed Borderlands, is now available from Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 for 800 Microsoft Points. Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot will be available for the PlayStation Network beginning January 7, 2010 for $9.99 and Windows PC in early 2010. The explosive excitement of Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot further enhances Borderlands’ reputation as one of this year’s best role playing shooter experiences.
Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot presents fans with new gameplay features that expand upon the popular Borderlands video game in dangerous and exciting ways. The all-new Riot Mode challenges players to test their weaponry against hordes of menacing antagonists, thirsting for carnage in tournaments where the rules of warfare are constantly changing. Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot also offers several new game features, including the ability to earn two more skill points making player’s characters an even deadlier lethal weapon, and an all-new bank feature that provides extra storage capacity for weapons of devastation.
“Our fans loved Borderlands because it was addictive gameplay at its best with over the top action that satisfied their appetites for destruction,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot expands upon the original Borderlands universe by taking the co-operative mayhem that gamers loved about the original game and amplifying it.”
Complete with extensive co-op integration seamlessly blending the single-player and multiplayer experiences, Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot allows players to freely join or leave each other’s games at any time for collaborative mayhem or the freedom to enjoy the game in full single-player mode. It also includes the groundbreaking weapon generation system that offers more than 16 million weapons from which to choose.
Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot is available now on Xbox Live Marketplace for Xbox 360 and will be downloadable on January 9, 2010 for the PlayStation Network for $9.99 and will also be offered for Windows PC users in early 2010. Borderlands™, rated M for Mature by the ESRB, was developed by Gearbox Software and is currently available for Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and Windows PC.
* Requires standalone Borderlands product in order to be played.
For more information, please visit www.borderlandsthegame.com.
2K Games is a division of 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Milkman Games, LLC announces the release of Aqualux, an action puzzle game in which players rearrange a board of pipes to guide a flow of Aqua from a tap to a drain. Aqualux blends classic arcade themes with modern puzzler and board game mechanics in a colorful, whimsical environment. The game is entered in the 2010 Independent Games Festival.
Milkman Games, LLC announces the action puzzle game Aqualux is available and ready to download at aqualuxgame.com.
Aqualux is an action puzzle game where players swap, twist, and teleport a flow of goo over 100 brain-challenging layouts of colorful tubes.
Alex Liebert, developer of the game, said “Remember playing those slider puzzles where you rearrange tiles on a board to form a picture? Aqualux combines that with the ‘build a network of pipes while racing the clock’ theme.” A ‘relaxed’ mode is also available in which time is unlimited.
“Portals, frozen pipes, twist-able pipes, and enchanted pipes (that are rotated by flowing through special gates) are added to the mix later on, adding new excitement and challenge to the game as players progress through the puzzles.” An online level builder allows creative users to construct their own levels, which are then available to everyone through the game’s Levels of the Day feature. “People who love tinkering with gadgets are having a great time building their own levels; and players keep coming back every day to fresh content, even after they’ve finished the campaign. We’re planning to integrate even deeper user-generated content features into social networks early next year,” says Liebert.
Aqualux features 100 levels, unlock-able trophies and secret game modes, and rich, colorful graphics. Passing through rolling starlit hills, sunny skies, frozen tundras, and even outer space, players solve unique logic puzzles while unlocking hidden bonuses and awards. The game is free of violence and features Relaxed, Casual, and Hardcore difficulty modes that deliver challenge to casual players and puzzle veterans alike.
