Braid

So, I've spent this morning playing through a few worlds of Jonathan Blow's Braid (Xbox Live Arcade, 1,200 Microsoft Points). On the face of it the thing looks like any other 2D platformer, but there's a twist within; you can move time back and forth to change object locations, move to other areas quicker or get rid of pesky enemies. It's brilliantly done, as this video shows.

Geo 2 Rocks it!

Following up on Matt was saying about Geometry Wars 2, it really is worth the few quid to buy this game. It's so unbelievably addictive and for the 6 stages it has to play offers some serious re-playability. Give it a shot :)

Error in I.E.

Sorry to all of you who may have been experiencing problems with the website displaying the blog if viewed in certain browsers - it seemed that something had been overwritten somewhere...doh!

(Thanks goes to Gaz for spotting that one!)

Geo Wars 2

So, I've just had a bit of an eye-burning session on Geometry Wars 2 and it's rather spiffing indeed! Just working my way through the single player modes at the moment and will have a review up on Friday I suspect - in the meantime, here's some footage of me having a go at the brand new King Mode and being remarkably average. Fun!

FF4 DS

So, yeah - Final Fantasy 4 is now out on the DS in Japan and the US, meaning we'll probably get it sometime early 2012. Never fear, folks; I'll be importing it and feeding my thoughts back to you at some point in the very near future. As long as this epic moment is left untouched then it'll all be fine!

Tron 2 trailer

Oooooh! Expect this video to go down quicker than (first joke deleted due to poor taste) (subsequent joke deleted due to poorer taste) Facebook on a Friday afternoon, but here's a sneaky shaky-cam preview of the Comic Con 2008 trailer for Tr2n. Yay!

Hello, what's all this about?

Looks like our pals at Square have a bit of a leak on hand. A friendly and ever-so-sneaky chap has posted the following video on Game Trailers, detailing some CGI scenes from the supposedly-postponed Final Fantasy XIII Versus. Dare I say it looks better than the normal FF XIII? Yes, yes I do. This was shown to a closed-room audience at last year's Jump Fiesta.

Ubi gets all the chicks!

It seems when poor ol' Jade Raymond has been thoroughly used and abused of late with a comic depicting her pleasuring geeks, Ubi need some fresh buxom beauts to push their latest DS titles (while passionately pursuing a lawsuit I'm sure) . The 2 lucky stars are boob bouncing beauty Holly Willoughby and Live 8 Euro-vision Top of the Tottie Fearne Cotton. Their aim - to show the girls really can play games...

Either way, boys'll be happy too no doubt!

Left: Fearne Cotton Right: Holly Willoughby

Guitar Hero 4 now officially 'MUST BUY'

Wayhey! Activision have only gone and got the rights to use some Jimi Hendrix master tracks for Guitar Hero: World Tour, including Purple Haze, Foxy Lady (bow bow bow boooooow) and the equally awesome Little Wing. What chance a bit of his version of All Along the Watchtower, given that it rocks all over Bob Dylan's version, or Crosstown Traffic?

There'll also be a Jimi character loaded up in there too, so anyone who's ever wanted to play guitar with their teeth before setting fire to it can hopefully live that dream while they're busy jamming away.

New International Track and Field

Pretty tough on your arm and your DS for sure, but New International Track and Field has ended up being great fun! Random words from the full review (which you can check out here) include: 'wrist', 'metronomic' and 'gobble'.

Now to rest my sore triceps :-)