Gamergeddon

If you are reading this and the site looks a mess it is because I am changing it to a new design. I need to move a few things around so please give me 30 minutes or so to get everything done

[UPDATE] I think that is everything sorted. Is the page loading and displaying slowly on FireFox, seems to take a while on 3.6 RC1 but other browsers work fine. Let me know if you spot any problems, reply on the comments and I will look into them. Oh and while I am at it, if there is anything else you want to see on the site like a gallery or something, reply as well Thanks.

This weeks Question of the Week is What Indie Games genres would you like to see more of? Is there a genre that is under represented such as Role Playing Games or maybe more original game ideas which the indie games scene is well known for. Let us know your thoughts on what game genres you would like to see more of, or if you have some of your own suggestions of games ideas by replying in the comments.

I have received an amazing response from indie game developers and sometimes I get a flood of offers to review games. This can leave me with a backlog of several games to review which can take some weeks to catch up on and during that time I will most likely get more games to review which adds to the backlog.

Having a constant backlog of games makes it hard to review games as it means I am constantly changing from one game to another and it may start to affect how I review games which I do not want. So I have decided to ask if anyone would like to help out and review some games from time to time when I am snowed under.

I am not looking for only a professional writer, I started reviewing games a few months ago when I started this site, so if you have no experience that is fine. But I would need to see a review you wrote to see how good you are. So if you are interested but have no experience, write a short review (say 4 paragraphs long) of an indie game you recently played.

Please contact me via the Contact page here if you are interested, along with a link to your review(s) and I will get back to you in a few days. Thanks!

This post is not sponsored by The Irons Den! I have been recommending the store to people for a few months now as they email you a 2100 or 4200 code when you purchase from their store. Usually I have points in advance but I got left short buying Trials HD last week and wanted Shadow Complex as soon as possible.

I made an order for 2100 which cost just £15.70  (compared to £17.00 for 2000 at Marketplace) at 13:03PM and five minutes later the code was in my Inbox. You can’t get much faster than that so The Irons Den gets two thumbs up from me! Please remember that these are European points codes so they wont work on US accounts.

I have not had a great deal of time the past week to play any games, I spent most of it performing software upgrades on my other site and also getting things ready for the launch of this site. I did however manage to find a bit of time to play the following:

I spent an hour or two on Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, mostly designing some new mental vehicles to play around in. I ran out of time playing this as I was waiting on a local server test upgrade to finish. I really need to get back into playing this properly!

Next up was Burnout Paradise. I love the idea of simply going online and straight into doing challenges with random people. Paradise is a massive game and you can pick it up in UK for around £15 now (CEX), it will be one of the best £15 you will spend!

Most of my gaming time was spent playing Madballs: Babo Invasion, partly because I wanted to but also because I was finishing my review of it. I went through the campaign mode again and played some more multiplayer games. Check out my review, it is great fun online.

This coming week will be a bit boring as I am not planning to buy any games, I am patiently (more like $%$%! hurry up) waiting for Trials HD next week. So if anyone wants to send me a code for an XBLA or Indie Game to review please get in contact with me

Let me know what you are playing by replying in the comments. It will give me a better idea of what types of games my visitors are into.

This is the first in a weekly look at what I have been playing in the last seven days.

Last Friday saw the dramatic ‘$£#% this game and near throwing controller at TV’ after playing Call of Duty:WaW with some friends. Is it just me or has nearly every player started using the MP40 in the past couple of weeks. Until then MP40’s were a problem but were easily dealt with as only a few people were using them. Now it is a miracle if you do get shot by any other weapon, when I got killed by a snipers headshot I actually cheered and complemented him! I took a week off playing the game and we returned to it last night, the MP40 is still used by majority of enemy team. Why are people using MP40’s on Sealow and Downfall? Map Pack 3 has gone from instant purchase to wait and see if my mates buy it, purely for the fact that Call of Duty: WaW is no longer fun to play.

My Game Of The Week, it is Madballs Babo:Invasion. The single player is not bad but the multiplayer is excellent fun. A few ex COD:WaW friends and myself have been playing the multiplayer games all week. The lag can be a bit ropey at times but the sheer fun and jokes playing the game makes you forgive the lag. I decided on Madballs for my next game review as I want to spread the word on this game as it seems to be overshadowed by BF1943 and Monkey Island.

With all the time freed up by Call Of Duty:WaW getting the boot I have returned to playing the XBLA game Banjo-Tooie. If you know me, I usually moan about paying 1200 points for games but this is one title that is 100% worth it. The game is massive, I have spent several hours playing and only just reached the pirate theme level. One annoyance is you do not always know what you are supposed to do and the camera angles can be very bad now and again. Overall this is a great platform game and if you want a game that will take many hours just to reach the end, let alone get the ‘100%’ you have to buy this one.

Battlefield 1943… what can I say… this game is so addictive! With only three maps it is starting to get a little repetitive but every game you play it is so different. I have not played it as much as I would like to this week but still remains a favourite.