MonthMarch 2011

PAX Hands-on: FEZ (XBLA)

After 4 years in development, Polytron Corporation’s long-awaited, perspective-shifting platformer FEZ will finally be seeing the light of day sometime this year.   And I was able to take the most current build for a test drive on the show floor.

Shoot Many Robots to be a $15 Game [Updated For Clarification]

[Update: We’ve just been in contact with Demiurge to clarify if what we’d overheard was the actually game’s set price point. According to the team, no price has been announced, and what we’d heard wasn’t a “slip”… it was meant jokingly and taken out of context in reference to the giveaways that the developers were…

PAX Hands-On: Child of Eden (Xbox 360 Kinect)

I always felt guilty because I never played the original Rez. And I felt guiltier when I played Rez HD three years ago and didn’t like it. Fortunately, I’ve realized what it might be missing: motion controls. I’ve recently had the opportunity to play an archive (read: level) of Child of Eden, the sequel to…

The Evening Report: Big in Korea Edition

Back in high school I was friends with some people that were in a band. They were pretty good, but the whole band thing was just something they did; they had no aspirations of becoming a legitimate thing once they graduated. The year after most of them graduated the bassist took a trip to South…