Category Archives: Puzzler

Another pay what you want indie bundle goes on sale today through Groupees, and with this particular set, there are incentives for your purchase.

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Telltale’s offering the first episode of Back to the Future: The Game for free for iPad. Subsequent episodes are also being offered for $2.99. Both the free offering and discount for further episodes are for a limited time only, however, so get to it.

Eyebrow Interactive’s intriguing platformer Closure scored top honours at the DICE Summit 2012 Indie Games Challenge.

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With the arrival of its long overdue PAL release, Stace received a text from a friend asking about Catherine. The following is a transcript of their conversation.

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The Indie Royale Valentine’s Bundle has gone live, and it’s time to throw open your wallet, let the bats fly out, and drop at minimum $4.51.

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Toki Tori has been added to the Humble Bundle for Android. This brings the total to five games, including Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Osmos, and EDGE. Those who pay more than the average price, currently $6.14, the indie classic World of Goo is also yours as an extra incentive. Buying the Humble Bundle for Android also nets you with the Mac, Windows, and Linux versions of the titles, along with the soundtracks. As of post time, the bundle has moved 133,387 units and earned $818,549.78.

Two Tribes has discussed in its latest blog entry the plans it has in store for Wii U, and it’s looking quite likely that Toki Tori 2 will include some nifty features should it be released on the console.

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The first downloadable mission for Touch My Katamari will be released in Japan on February 23, according to Namco. Called Maid Paradise, the content tasks the player with rolling up maids as fast as possible. It also contains a cameo character names Lucky Star which, says Siliconera, Disgaea fans will recognize. Meito Anizawa, who has a cameo in Disgaea 4, even runs out of the Animate store at one point for you to roll over with your massive blog of people and items. The game is out on February 22 in North America and Europe, the same day as Vita. Screens of the new DLC can be found through the link.

With the latest offering, the Humble Bundle has expanded its cross-platform philosophy even further, opening the scheme to Android users.

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RPS has noted that Valve has made its games available on GameStop download service Impulse. The marketplace, which was owned by Stardock up until last year when it was bought by GameStop, now has five titles from the company: Portal 2, The Half-Life Complete Collection, Left 4 Dead 1 + 2 and The Orange Box, all of which end up requiring Steam activation anyways. Still, your options on where to buy Valve games has become more broader now.

More details here.

Telltale’s launched the first episode of Sam & Max, Season Two: Beyond Time & Space. The first episode, called Ice Station Santa, will set you back $7, but is universal, meaning it will support iPhone and iPad. Bonuses include a soundboard featuring Sam & Max an a standalone version of Season One mini-game Whack da Rats.

Get it from iTunes here. Thanks, Joystiq.

An eight-minute talkthrough demo of Quantum Conundrum has appeared online from YouTube. The video, taken from a GameTrailers preview at CES, features exploring the main concepts surrounding the game and how they work, with commentary from Airtight’s Kim Swift. Get the video below.

The Square-published, Portal-like puzzler launches at some point in 2012 for PSN and XBLA. Get Nathan’s impressions from PAX last August here.

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The zombie/survival genre is tried and true, and is being carefully fashioned by the small team at Tequila Works. Slated for an exclusive release on the XBLA platform this Summer, details are now starting to emerge on this story-driven game.

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Aside from being the creative director behind the Darksiders games, Joe Madureira is also quite the established comic book writer/artist – and unsurprisingly, rather enjoys Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda.

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Nelson’s dropped the full list of dates and prices for this year’s Xbox Live House Party line-up, with the main bits being Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, launching on February 22 for 1200 MS points, and I Am Alive, releasing for the same price point on March 7. EA and Trapdoor’s Warp launches for 800 MS points, while THQ-published shooter Nexuiz releases on February 29 for the same pricepoint.

Konami has announced Puddle, the Neko Entertainment-developed, physics-based puzzle game, will land on PSN and XBLA next week.

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Atlus has announced the European release of Trine 2 on PS3 will be delayed “a short while longer” after having already missed December release window.

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A single screenshot has been released for the Supermassive Games-developed Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, and it’s posted below the break. Announced in December, the game stars the Doctor and River Song travelling through time to save the Earth. Player decisions will have consequences in different layers of time, causing multiple scenarios “across the centuries” which will need to be solved using puzzles. The Eternity Clock is slated for a digital release in early 2012 for PC, PS3, and Vita.

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Brenna Hillier just wants to play some games, but it’s all so hard. Maybe the traditional games industry could stand to learn a thing or two from the accessibility of indies.

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Indie studio Tequila Works has announced its first title, a puzzle platformer called Deadlight, is to be published by Microsoft Studios and released exclusively on Xbox Live Arcade this summer.

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