Anyone who knows me or cares the slightest what I have to say (possibly just me :P) will have noticed that I dropped off the face of the earth a while ago, the morning Blizzard announced Cataclysm to be exact. 
 
Despite vowing I would never again enter the realm of Azeroth, my instincts overwhelmed me and before I even knew I was doing it, I had downloaded the client and was blasting away again with my hunter, racing to 80. As I usually do with these kinds of things, I became horribly addicted and have proceeded to do nothing but play World of Warcraft for the past month, not even taking a break to post on my beloved Giant Bomb. 
 
Now that University rears it's head again, I am afraid I must bid you all farewell, I will be leaving Giantbomb until next summer (you guys know how much I post ;) and cannot deny that amount of time wasting would not affect my uni work) and I will continue to play World of Warcraft until I have become burned out on it again (it's approaching already, i've got pretty much all the best gear before Ulduar, and can't get to Ulduar with my current guild, so i'm pottering around playing the AH and doing Daily quests) so that I can put it down and concentrate solely on my work. Until Cataclysm of course :P 
 
That said, after a rather depressing summer I decided to buy myself an iPhone. I must say i'm incredibly impressed so far. Obviously, I have purchased the Giantbomb app! So while I will no longer be posting upwards of 50 messages a day (addictive personality? I'd say so) I will be supporting the team by visiting their site through the iPhone app every day. 
 
So bye bye everyone, see you all next summer!

Forgive me, I don't normally blog about random small games, flash games, indie games, java games, iphone games, mobile phone games, etc etc I have not, and do not, and am only slightly likely to buy lots of them in the future. (On account of my plan to get an iPhone this year) 
 
But this one is the exception. 
 
I MAED A GAME3 W1TH Z0MB13S IN1T!  is a recent addition to the Xbox Indie (formerlly known as Community) games tab, and what a game! 
 
Obviously taking a note out of the pages of other highly stylised games like Portal, Splosion Man and similar, simple gameplay, catchy music and great style.  
 
Gameplay wise it's very similar to Geometry Wars, by all accounts it's a standard (and initially, shitty looking) dual thumbstick shooter, it probably has more in common with Smash TV however than Geometry Wars. Initial appearances can be decieving however, for the first 3 minutes it seems like whoever made this game has a basic understanding of how to assemble these mechanics in XNA, and has written (or a friend has written) a catchy song which he knew would take the internet by storm. However, by no means does the game ride on the back of that alone, after the first few minutes once the songs played out and you've been introduced to some zombies, it kicks everything up a notch, some clever and nice looking lighting effects kick in, the levels morph seemlessly into each other and after a while another song will kick in. 
 
The enemies vary pretty nicely, initially obviously there are zombies, but then you get slimes which split into smaller slimes, snake-style enemies who wizz around the screen leaving an after-image behind, evil faces (which by that point blend almost seemlessly into the background, fiendishly) and some other odd things, including perhaps the greatest homage to Asteroids i've ever seen. 
 
The sole purpose of the game seems to be to make you chuckle, give you a good solid 10 - 15 minutes of game time, and then begin to mercillessly kick your ass until all your lives are gone. I'm not sure if there is an end to the game, or if it just keeps spawning more and more enemies until you cave, but damn, by that point who cares it's the best dollar i've ever spent. 
 
That's right folks, one dollah! 80MSP (around 63p in the UK) 
 
I can honestly say, if you enjoyed Geometry Wars, or are a fan of Smash TV, or heck, just want 10 minutes of well thought out, off the wall entertainment, send your dollar to this guy, it's well worth it. Personally, I'd say this game is better than Geometry Wars when you consider it's only a dollar, but i've never been very good at these kinds of games, Geometry Wars is obviously the better game, but the fact i'm even comparing an XBL Indie games to Geometry Wars should be a clear indication that this game is worth your dollar. 
 
Give it a try, you won't be dissapointed. 
 
Kotaku Link (plus vid): http://kotaku.com/5340444/i-maed-a-gam3-w1th-z0mb1es1    

I wanted to write this a long time ago, unfortunately I did not have access to a scanner, nor the particular images I wanted to talk about, however for once the gods seem to be acting in my favor, and i've miraculously come into the possesion of a lovely little printer/scanner combo machine. I decided it was time to finally talk about these manuals.

Everybody has a bunch of characters they hate, and losing to those characters, especially again and again, brings forth nerdrage of epic proportions. I mean just look around the rage that surrounded Street Fighter IV's boss character, Seth. The internet burned for months, and some parts of it are still quietly smouldering away with a burning hot anger.

A JRPG and a platformer comprised most of my playtime this week. But not just any platformers

DUNN DUNNN!!!!!

'Splosion Man!

Not only is this game a mere 800 spacebucks, but it doesn't pull any punched either. This is a platformer though and through, and as such can get really very difficult towards the end of the game. But i'll get to that later.