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EA Playground (EA Playground)

Jun 20, 2007

The actual concept of an EA playground is one of the most wonderfully absurd things weve heard of in a while: a kind of compendium of EA games collected together in the style of a theme park. How excited you get by this prospect depends entirely on your age, because this one is aimed squarely at sticky-fingered youths. But theres no doubting it has a certain pizzazz. The minigame that were most looking forward to is Tetherball - the game that everyone loves until the ball swings right into ...

Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest - hands-on (Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest)

Dec 19, 2007

Dec 18, 2007 As we saw in our last preview, Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest, is a cutesy real-time strategy affair with a bit of an environmental twist. Starring what appears to be a large, sentient durian (quite possibly the most controversial fruit in the world), and an army of adorable wood spirits, the game tasks you with vanquishing tree-chopping industrialists and restoring your forest home to its former ...

Eco Creatures: Save the Forest - First Look (Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest)

Oct 5, 2007

October 05, 2007 Large, muscular men make great armies. So do all varieties of medieval humanoid, especially if they're vision-cloudingly ugly (orcs, ogres) or eyeball-shatteringly beautiful (elves). Zombies and insectoid aliens are right up there. Even huge platoons of robots with large guns will get the job done, provided they weren't designed by George Lucas with the purpose of making floppy-eared aliens with muppet voices look like highly trained infantry. Oh, and so do magical squirrels ...

Elite Beat Agents - preview (Elite Beat Agents)

Apr 3, 2007

Tuesday 3 April 2007 Don't ask us why, but music games seem to have more personality, on the whole, than just about any others. Without a big bulky guy with a gun or a group of perky teens out to save the world to rely on, things seem to get weird - fast. Whether or not the songs are original or top hits, if there's a story you're guaranteed to be swimming in bizarre characters, styling art and that rarest of things in games: an actual sense of humor. Elite Beat Agents follows this path ...

E3 06: Elite Beat Agents (Elite Beat Agents)

May 12, 2006

Don't ask us why, but music games seem to have more personality, on the whole, than just about any others. Without a big bulky guy with a gun or a group of perky teens out to save the world to rely on, things seem to get weird - fast. Whether or not the songs are original or top hits, if there's a story you're guaranteed to be swimming in bizarre characters, styling art and that rarest of things in games: an actual sense of humor. Elite Beat Agents follows this path beautifully. Telling the ...

Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard hands-on preview (Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard)

May 19, 2008

In the midst of game designers stumbling over themselves to reach into the newfound wallets of “casual gamers,” it’s nice to see a game like Etrian Odyssey 2. Aimed solely at the traditional hardcore gamer, Etrian Odyessy 2 is an old school dungeon crawling grind fest that makes no apologies. There are no tutorials or training levels, and after a brief introduction you’re thrown into the Labyrinth and ordered to ...