Welcome back to XBLA Weekly. At E3 last week, Microsoft announced the new lineup for their annual Summer of Arcade. This August it will feature the following games: Charlie Murder, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons, and Flashback are coming in August. More on those to come as… Read More »
It’s rare that a game can really evoke the feel and presence of a well made movie. Its rarer still that a 2D puzzle platformer manages to pull that off. The Swapper builds a minimalist, grim story with a fantastic aesthetic and gameplay to match. The core of The Swapper is just that, swapping. In… Read More »
With only a few days before Father’s Day, we here at the Nerds@Play have decided to celebrate dads, whether they be physical or digital. We pick our favorite in-game dads, share some memories from our younger years, and wish for more epic mobile games. Michi also decides to come out of her shell and gab… Read More »
Yesterday, during EA’s E3 media presentation, it was finally confirmed that DICE had resumed work on the long awaited return of Mirror’s Edge. Still early in production, it will be a while before the game will be hitting the store shelves. Long enough that there doesn’t appear to be any plans (at least not as… Read More »
This week Jay and Wally welcome game developer Dave Calabrese of Cerulean Games as he tells us everything you need to know about his Kickstarter project Vinyard Valley! Learn about what it takes to be a game developer and how to get your vision made in today’s industry from someone inside the business! After the wine tasting, Wally… Read More »
Happy birthday to us! Today is the one year anniversary of us starting this podcast so we thought it would be a great idea to look back at the last forty two episodes! Listen in as we pick our favorite episodes, favorite guests, and discuss our future plans for the podcast! Year two is pretty… Read More »
E-shop games are kind of a weird partial frontier at the moment. The 3DS is stuck in a weird place where games should cost more (Luigi’s Mansion is well worth the $40 price of entry), but cell phone and iPad games draw immediate comparison. That line becomes even less clear with budget titles on the… Read More »
Listen as Xbox MVP Chris Brown and Kelly Brown, both of Married Gamers fame join Jay and Wally in friendly discourse! This week the discussion turns to the console so great that Metallica, Creed, and U2 has written songs about it before it was even announced: the Xbox One! In an epic two hour technological… Read More »
Your homeworld has been destroyed and you have been sold as a slave, living among what little remains of your species. You now live on an unfamiliar alien world overrun with Yugai, an alien race hellbent on capturing all that remains of the universe. Do you have what it takes to rise up? To take back… Read More »
