Games Cheats and Reviews

At the Ubisoft press conference today, CEO Yves Guillemot announced Project Dust (temporary title), a new game planned for release through Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network next year. Despite being a digital release, though, it featured surprisingly large, lush, 3D environments.

As for what kind of game it actually is, we’re not quite sure — the trailer showed off a variety of somewhat stylized locations, with shots of tribal-like people performing some sort of ritual cut in between the shots of the landscapes (which included unusually shaped oceans, grassy hills and waterfalls, and spewing volcanoes). The trailer ended on an apocalyptic note, with the world seemingly falling to waste from within as if a small sink hole quickly escalated to consume the entire land.

No other details were given on the game, but if we’d have to wager a guess, it looked a bit like a strategy or simulation — but honestly, we have no clue. For now, see the trailer for yourself above and give it your best guess.

Today a new website for a still unnamed "Mikami Shinji Project" has been opened, with a countdown starting at 2 weeks.

Nothing is known about what kind of game will be unveiled, but it’s presumably the first brainchild of studio Tango, the new studio just founded by Shinji Mikami, creator of the Resident Evil series.

More and more you can find advertisements for guide that promise to reveal some „secrets“ or „cheats“ for FarmVille. If you have been playing FarmVille for while like me you probably don’t think that FarmVille ist he kind of game for which you would need a guide. I mean, how should „cheating“ in FarmVille even be possible? On the other hand I have often wondered how some of my neighbors got all this stuff on their farm…are they Farmfreak that set the alarm for 3 in the morning or is there another way?

I was looking in the forums and I found one or two very helpful tips. Not breakthroughs but things that helped me to get the coins faster I needed to buy the decorations I wanted. Maybe there is more I thought. I took a look on some of the sites that try to sell these guides. But I was far from impressed. Endless sales letter that promise the world and deliver little. Obviously manipulated screen shots. And videos of farms that my neighbors has as well.

But than I found FarmVille Perfect. A video with a farm with almost 50 million coins! I could not believe my eyes! I had not idea that this is even possible. Than I saw that they even give a 60 days money back guarantee. So I bought the guide. WOW! This guide is actually worth its money. Not just some stuff you can find on any other forum on the net. There are actually ways to legally „cheat“ your way to a mega farm.

Within days of getting this guide I bought my first villa. I also doubled the amount of neighbors I had so I could finally get the 24 x 24 mighty plantation. There are actually tricks that do help with FarmVille. If you want to get a nice farm fast and not miss out on anything I can fully recommend FarmVille Perfect.

You can check it out here!

"Some will not try it and just say : blah, this is a QTE, I’m not interested. (it’s actually so much than that). If it gives them pleasure so they will miss an incredible strong experience who will you take the guts. So strong, so powerful, so…

Heavy Rain is one of those games that once finished, leave an indelible mark in the hearts of gamers. The kind of game that, once the controller asked, thinking. A real game mature shows that the video game, not a bunch of big guys full of testosterone that kills aliens or a mustached plumber. Thank you, David Cage. Thank you to the team of Quantic Dream. And pity those who completely miss this unique title.

When was the last time you felt totally lost in a fantasy gameworld? When was the last time you played a game with such a well-crafted and enjoyable story that you knew you’d remember it for a long, long time? Dragon Age: Origins is that kind of game, so rich and involving that you are powerless to resist its wiles and whims, so touching and triumphant that your mind and heart will be moved. In the fictional land of Ferelden, you meet memorable characters and fight for a cause you believe in, and it’s this backdrop that makes developer BioWare’s newest role-playing game so extraordinary. Dragon Age is more than a well-crafted story, however: It’s a lengthy, intricate, and thoroughly entertaining adventure that’s easy to fall in love with.

The original Operation Flashpoint often gets paired with the phrase “military simulator,” so that you’re completely aware it’s the kind of game where a single bullet can kill you, bullet trajectory actually drops over long distances, and switching between carrying an assault rifle to an anti-tank rocket takes considerable time. Operation Flashpoint simply prided itself on being a hardcore simulation of infantry combat. So any follow-up, such as the new Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising, has quite a legacy.

Except, there’s the whole drama of how Flashpoint’s actual developers (Bohemia Interactive) went and made new Flashpoint-esque games under a different publisher without the official name (ArmA and ArmA 2). Flashpoint 2 isn’t a Bohemia Interactive production; it comes from an internal Codemasters studio that tries its damnedest to create a worthy follow-up. What we have is close, but as I keep playing, I realize that “military sim” isn’t quite accurate in this case; a better descriptor for Flashpoint 2 would be “‘war is hell’ sim” — a game where more of the negative/hellish aspects of combat are emphasized.

Obsidian Entertainment’s espionage RPG Alpha Protocol was set for release on October 6, and as far as we know it still is, but new release dates now listed on GameStop and Amazon.ca have thrown the game’s launch into doubt. As Kotaku reports, GameStop now has it listed for a June 1 release next year, and Amazon.ca for June 30.

Sega, the game’s publisher, hasn’t made any statements about a delay, so for now this remains an unconfirmed rumor. But this wouldn’t be the first time Alpha Protocol suffers a delay (it was originally planned for release back in February), and it’s worth noting this comes not long after a leaked document on Sega’s press site included critical comments of the game from a Sony product evaluator, who said it “felt barely RPG” and was “too challenging.”

Obsidian quickly responded to this leak, with marketing manager Mathew Rorie posting a message on the game’s official forum (via Shacknews), saying, “We’re not really sure how much this gentleman played of Alpha Protocol, or what his ideas of an RPG are. Suffice to say, the game is 100 percent an RPG; we don’t really make any other kind of game.”

Scribbling its name into DS puzzle history is Scribblenauts, a game that essentially puts you in the shoes of god and has you completing hundreds of tasks. It’s the kind of game that will have you enticed by its adorable charm and innovative gameplay offering nothing but an immersive and well designed experience.

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Much has been said about the various Evony ads, which portray big-breasted women that really have nothing to do with the actual gameplay when it comes to the game. What you fail to hear people talk about, however, is the game itself. I jumped into Evony knowing what kind of game to expect in the first place, and I must say that I’m pretty surprised by how enjoyable I’ve found the game. There are problems holding it back – most of which are in play to make money – but once you start overlooking and accepting them there is fun to be had.

High Voltage’s The Grinder has effectively been labeled as "Left 4 Dead on the Wii," focusing as it does on co-op undead shooting action. High Voltage definitely wants to bring that kind of game to the white waggle box, but when we asked the Left 4 Dead developer how it felt about The Grinder, we were met with what can best be described as hopeful skepticism.