Gamergeddon

A little later than planned but we got there in the end. After a lot of deciding, the domain name Gamergeddon.com was chosen so please update your bookmarks. The name change gives the site a better image and is catchier than Emuholic’s Game Blog which is no longer correct, as there are now additional staff working on this site. I started off this site last year as a small blog to write occasional game reviews but it had quickly changed into something more than that.

Over the coming weeks there will be some changes as we expand the site to cover XBLA games and in the future, retail games. But Indie Game fans do not worry, we will always cover indie games on the site, I am so Indie I liked the River Thames before it was main stream Some things are still up in the air but everything will be considered with the visitors in mind.

Thanks for visiting and supporting the site and I hope you continue to do so! Also can I take the opportunity to thank staff members Bryan and Iggypu for their great work on the site since joining and also to Donskeeto, Trez and Matt for behind the scenes stuff.

This weeks XBLA release, the second in the Block/House Party promotion, is Scrap Metal. Drift around corners with guns blazing and take out legendary competitors in this fast-paced, top-down racing game. Fight your way through explosive, action-packed missions and defeat cunning bosses to add their vehicles to your garage. Customize your newly-acquired cars and then return to the track to blast through more enemies. Jump online with Xbox LIVE to race against your friends and crush their cars with the wheels of your monster truck in pulse-pounding online multiplayer matches.

Scrap Metal costs 1200 and you can find the demo and full versions on the Marketplace. Have you played the demo yet or purchased the full game? Let us know what you think about the game in the comments.

Welcome to the latest Indie Game round up of releases and updates. Some nice releases in this round up, in particular Zombie Armageddon which surprised me a lot. Also I should have some news on the domain name in the next day or two, just waiting for the name servers to update.

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Our code competition for last week was two codes for Hypno Vol. 1, check out our review here.  The first code was the comment reply, all eligible entries were numbered and sKuLLmAn xXx was picked at random by Random.org with the correct answer being Andrew Gaubatz. The second code was a Twitter based retweet compo, again all entries were numbered and fresh0288 was picked at random.

Congratulations to both winners, check your email/DM shortly for the code. We may have another XBLA code giveaway starting soon, if not the XBLIG code giveaway should start tomorrow for Kaleidoscope.

If you follow me on Twitter or have spotted the site tagline you will have noticed we will have a new domain name soon. I will announce the domain name on Sunday night once the DNS has updated. The new domain is quite catchy and I hope you will like it as everyone that I have mentioned it to did. Now onto the round up of indie game news from the past few days.

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Rotor’scope is a complex puzzle game developed by Nivel21 for the Xbox Live Indie Community.   The game offers a variety of puzzles, which become increasing difficulty very quickly. So, just how good of a puzzle game is Rotor’scope?  Read on to find out if it’s worth taking a look!

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Rayteoactive presents Tobe’s Vertical Adventure, a magical journey back to the early days of gaming.  The colorful 2D platformer evokes memories of Ice Climbers as you follow Tobe as he quests at the behest of his angry girlfriend.  After being tasked to quit playing video games and find a real adventure, Tobe sets out to regain lost treasure on four islands.  This adventure, you’ll find, isn’t quite as simple as it seems.

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