The genre bending Drone is now up in the CP: Arcade for you all to download and play. Created by David W Wilson, this mix of tower defence and shooter gets our highest recommendation, this game has been causing a bit of a stir on the scene lately and I think that's because of it's fresh gameplay mechanics and professional execution. Click here to see for yourself.
We've launched CP:TV which features several shows covering different aspects of gaming. In our first episode of Co-op Sessions Darren, Mick and Mark get to grips with GRAW 2 on the PC and see how good a co-op experience it is.
Respected games journalist Kieron Gillen has collaborated with the BAFTA award winning animation/game studio Little Loud and together (with more than a little help of the always willing to 'stick-it-to-the-man' British TV channel 4) have created a sort of 90's CD-ROM FMV style, Orwellian, episodic adventure game. Putting my overuse of verbs aside, the game's actually quite all-right...
I've played games such as MAG, where you have anywhere up to 250 people fighting each other on one map, numbers which are far greater than the 24 players on every BC 2 match, but still BC2's matches always feel grander. This is due to many factors but crucially, it's the sound design that helps sell the experience to the player...
Cut It, the level based puzzle game by the ever experimental Petri Purho is a game in which you harness physics and gravity to do your bidding in getting a white block to a green platform using an interesting mix of making cuts in objects and preying they fall the way you want them to.
Coma is weird. That weirdness is good. Really good actually. It captures the weird uncontrolled randomness and horrifyingness your dreams can posses through simple adventure game and platforming mechanics.
Upgrade Complete (created by Armor Games and hosted on Kongregate) is an unusual game, to say the least. A game in which you can easily get lost in all the things you have to do but this time, it’s a good thing...