Giveaway: Summer of Arcade Game Pack
WINNER ANNOUNCED: Congratulations to Shaw E. for winning the full set of 2012’s Summer of Arcade titles! An email has been sent to the associated email address. If no response is received by this time on Wednesday, a new winner will be selected (if no update on Wednesday, the prize has been claimed). Thanks for participating, and good luck in the future! This year’s XBLA Summer of Arca...[Read More]
Marooners’ Talk: Episode 043 – “Dance Rock Blitz”
With Episode 043 of Marooners’ Talk, “Dance Rock Blitz,” we had a chance to sit and chat with Nick Chester and Annette Gonzalez from Harmonix (Publicist and Dance Central Community Manager, respectively) about Dance Central 3 and Rock Band Blitz. Hear about Dance Central 3’s new story mode, Rock Band Blitz’s Score Wars and Rock Band World, and various other topics, in...[Read More]
Marooners’ Talk: Episode 042 – “Shenanigans With Hoopy Froods”
Episode 042 of Marooners’ Talk, “Shenanigans with Hoopy Froods,” has a new-to-the-show guest. Former journalist, and current PR in the games industry (specifically, video games), Greg Hutto was kind enough to sit and chat with us about a slew of topics. He managed to get a hat trick of hating/disliking things that Lindsey loves (TOOL, DOOM, and Splinter Cell), which is always fun...[Read More]
Giant Trailer Roundup
In the lead-up to Gamescom, and at Gamescom itself, trailers were being pumped out by the handful. Rather than put up a separate post for each trailer with a few sentences introducing it, I decided that this time, I’d just put all of the trailers up at once and save both me and you a shitload of time. Below, you will find trailers for Borderlands 2, Rayman Legends, Assassin’s Creed III...[Read More]
NEOGEO X GOLD Coming December 6, 2012
Due to its higher price, I never owned a NEOGEO home system. I recall wanting one desperately, but my parents raised me on teachers’ salaries, and a NEOGEO simply wasn’t in the cards. That’s not to say I never experienced it, however. From the arcades to my friend’s house, I experienced the full range of NEOGEO goodness in the early days of the 1990s. In the arcades, the NE...[Read More]
A World of Keflings Gets Avatar FameStar Update
It’s no secret that we’re unabashed fans of NinjaBee Games’ Keflings titles. We were lucky enough to have a chat with NinjaBee’s Andrew Hill (PR/Marketing) a couple of weeks ago about the upcoming update, DLC, and more. As of last Friday, the Avatar FameStar update for A World of Keflings is live and bringing a slew of new challenges and gameplay experiences to your Kefling...[Read More]
Review: Hybrid (XBLA)
I have a varied history with shooters. I absolutely adored Rise of the Triad and Counter-Strike, and spent my fair share of time playing some of the other standards of the genre, but even so, I never once considered myself a real fan of the genre as a whole. Over the past few years, this has shifted somewhat, and I now find a shooter as one of my favorite games of this generation, much to my surpr...[Read More]
Review: Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack (PC)
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack still holds the #2 spot on MetaCritic’s list of PS Vita game scores, and it’s a position it wholeheartedly deserves. Five and a half months after its Vita launch, Drinkbox Studios’ Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is making its way to the PC, via Steam. I haven’t had the chance to play the Vita original, but from everything I had s...[Read More]
Marooners’ Talk: Episode 041 – “Quality Journalism”
As you may or may not have seen, Episode 041 is actually the second half of Episode 040. Episode 041 of Marooners’ Talk, titled “Quality Journalism,” picks up milliseconds after Episode 040 suddenly cuts off. A double recording session, as you’ll hear at the end of this episode, prompted me to simply call the first half Episode 040 and the second half Episode 041. Here, our...[Read More]
Preview: LittleBigPlanet (Vita)
Prior to this past weekend, I had never really played any of the LittleBigPlanet titles. I was always curious, of course, but for one reason or another, I never acted on that curiosity. I have now spent the last five days playing, re-playing, and creating my way through a preview version of LittleBigPlanet on my PS Vita, and I find myself eagerly anticipating its full release next month. The PlayS...[Read More]
Caption Contest: Darksiders II Avatar Items
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Congratulations to the following winners of the following items! Props: Tom Cutler Ricky TRICKY Hudspeth Dottmungeer Male shirts: Josh Townsend Austin Beaty Justin Forsythe Faheem Nestor Rodriguez Female shirts: Alessia Andrea Bellitti Cristiano Bonafaccia Tyler Sebastian de Mooij Rodolfo Antonio Winners can contact me on Twitter (@Marooners_Rock) or via email using contests at ...[Read More]
Giveaway: Oblivion Island + Extras
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Congratulations to Samuel H. for winning the grand prize, and Brian Lepak for winning the secondary prize! I’m not hip with it, when it comes to anime. I have my favorites (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Trigun, Berserk, Dragon Ball Z, etc.), and I do enjoy new anime experiences, but I just haven’t got the time to keep up with the incredibly wide range of variety av...[Read More]