Immersive Adventure Game Drawn: The Painted Tower
Available Now on PC CD-ROM

post from Gamezplay.org - Video game updates daily on 03 November 2009 03:42:00 PM. © Gamezplay.org - Video game updates daily

Drawn: The Painted Tower is an enchanting puzzle adventure game which sends you on a cinematic journey to rescue a child queen with a special gift. It has been created by Big Fish Games Studios, one of the world?s leading casual games developers.Recently[...]

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Dead to Rights Retribution Official video game
trailer PlayStation 3 Xbox 360

post from Gamezplay.org - Video game updates daily on 03 November 2009 03:39:00 PM. © Gamezplay.org - Video game updates daily

Grant City is as much a character of Dead to Right: Retribution as protagonists Jack and Shadow. Its a living breathing city, steeped in history and symbolism and provides the setting for the neo-noir, heavy-going, bleak atmosphere for this epic[...]

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Nintendo sort of interested in WiiWare demos ...
maybe

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One of the smartest things Microsoft has done with Xbox LIVE Arcade is make demos a requirement for each and every game, and furthermore, made it so upgrading to the full version is a mere button press away. Really, it's hard not to impulse buy because of the way everything is set up.

At a Q&A session held during an earnings briefing for Nintendo, CEO Satoru Iwata spoke with investors about a newfound interest in providing WiiWare demos later this month. But wait a second -- as of this time, this will be nothing more than a test for a few games.

Nintendo wants to see if demos will help expand the market for WiiWare and DSiWare, but Iwata isn't confident this move will immediately fix the problem, hence it being just a test. If you ask me, such a plan is certainly not going to hurt anything.

While there are currently a lot of unknowns -- which games will be getting demos, what regions this applies to, etc. -- this is something you'd all be interested in seeing, right? Are there any games in particular you've always wanted to try without blindly buying them?

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EarthBound Screensaver'>You'd Better Get Kraken For EarthBound
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post from Press The Buttons on 03 November 2009 03:29:00 PM. © Press The Buttons

Microsoft Windows comes with some particularly boring screensavers. It's all 3D Pipes this and Mystify that. Isn't it time for you to give your PC's screensavers list the gift of EarthBound? Behold the magic of Kraken, a free Windows screensaver courtesy of Starmen.net that approximates the trippy battle backgrounds from Nintendo's RPG cult classic. Basically, it?s a Windows screensaver that can display various battle animations from EarthBound. You can choose which animations to display in its configuration options, along with...

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Unreleased: Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill - "New"
Screenshots!

It's Election Day here in the US, so I'm going to push our Adventure of the Week back to Thursday, because I've actually found something videogame related to post about today.

Political satire is a rarity in the world of videogames, but back in 1993 Kaneko's US division planned to release Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill, a side-scrolling action game based on the official Clinton family pet. The game was finished ready for release on the Super NES and Sega Genesis, and magazine ads and reviews were running. But the game never made it to store shelves after Kaneko Japan decided to close its Western division, and in an even more unusual twist, no physical prototype or ROM image of the game has yet surfaced as I write this in November 2009.

So Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill remains one of those mysterious unreleased titles - we know enough about it to guess that it was no masterpiece, but as it got well beyond the concept stage it has become a tantalizing "lost game" from the 16-bit era. It reportedly featured political figures like Ross Perot, Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush as bosses, which would have been entertaining to see in action.

Anyway, a number of ads, screenshots and box art scans have surfaced over the years, but I didn't find these specific images anywhere else on the Web. These images are scanned from a review published in the July 1994 issue of GamePro magazine.

This screen reveals a bit of educational gameplay that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere.

And this one makes it clear that Socks was not going to be much competition for Bubsy, Spike McFang, Aero the Acrobat, or any of the other furry platforming hopefuls that invaded the market in Sonic the Hedgehog's wake.

But the game did exist, and hopefully it will be discovered someday.