When I first read the title Black and White platformer, I got excited. A level all in black and white would be a nice change of pace. That didn’t pan out, as you can clearly see from the fireballs in the above screenshot. I still had a blast with the level in spite of this little letdown, and in spite of the weird thrusting phallus sections. Maybe I’m misinterpreting that part though. Sometimes a pointy column with a slightly bulbous tip is just a pointy column with a slightly bulbous tip. You be the judge.
Speaking of judging, it’s Sackie Awards nominations time! Yep. Sackies. That’s what they’re calling them. Get your nominations for your favourite levels of 2011 in before 06/02/2012, and seeing as there’s a ‘u’ in favourite, please note that the deadline is February 6th, not June 2nd. Also, my mention of pointy columns followed by an announcement of the Sackie Awards is entirely coincidental. No need to page Dr. Freud, I assure you.
If you’ve played Fantasy Flight’s Arkham Horror cooperative boardgame, some of Elder Sign: Omens will be familiar to you. This is basically a dice-based iPhone solitaire version of Arkham Horror (available here for $4). It plays a bit like Clue, where you align several pieces on the board for one of the adventures, which consists of rolling dice and matching them to the adventure’s component tasks. For instance, Sister Mary the nun in the North Wing with the dynamite against the Medusa exhibit. Then you roll the dice and see how she fares.
The overall goal is to accumulate 14 elder signs, which are rewards for beating some adventures, before you accumulate 12 doom tokens, which are penalties for failing some adventures, as well as occasional draws during the dreaded midnight phase. I’ve played three games, each with a hand-picked group of investigators. In all three games, the world was devoured. Oops. Maybe I’ll have more luck this time with a random party.
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If you don’t have a pinball game from Zen Studios, the latest Nintendo 3DS version is a great way to fix that. It’s only a seven dollar download from the Nintendo eShop away. But what if you’re already an aficionado of Zen Studio’s pinball tables. You’ve got them on your Xbox 360, your PS3, and even your iPhone, for Pete’s sake. Why bother paying seven bucks to download four tables for your Nintendo 3DS?
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Hey, look, the Writers Guild of America has selected its annual nominations for best writing in a videogame!
In the category of video game writing, the teams behind Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Batman: Arkham City, Brink, Mortal Kombat, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception were all nominated.
The WGA awards are kind of weird, because they’re limited to WGA members. That’s just how guilds work. But I actually lied about one of those nominees. I’ll bet you dollars to donuts you can’t figure out which one without clicking on the link.
