Category Archives: Game Reviews

It’s now official (maybe) that the Xbox 360 “Motion Control” device, once named “Natal” will be named “Kinect”, and apparently we are not supposed to know this yet. The USA Today game “blog” (column, whatever) went with a story about … Continue reading →

Wanna play some digital footie? Synopsis:Sensational World Of Soccer 2010 Review.Are you a USA fan who wants to replay the England match and try to put more goals by the hapless Robert Green? Are you an England fan who desires … Continue reading →

Ace The Super Villain’s Alloy Tengu 2 DX Featured on the Yo Yo Games Site No, it’s not a Flash game, and it isn’t even playable in a web browser (yet), but The Yo Yo Games site (the makers of … Continue reading →

Today only, you can load-up on PopCap.com games (some of the best games ever made) and every penny you spend will go to the Haiti relief effort. If you have been waiting around to buy such games as Zuma, Book … Continue reading →

I noticed yesterday that I have too many games being played and books being read at exactly the same time.  All of these games/books are being played/read at different times, when I’m doing different things. -Mac: M.U.L.E. (new version)-PC (Mac … Continue reading →

Press Space To Win is pretty awesome I was trolling message boards and portals this morning because of my inherent need to procrastinate rather than work on the three games I have going at once. On the Mochi boards I … Continue reading →

I was just trolling around the various portals this morning and I came across an absolutely fantastic retro Flash game called Jump. I have looked around and I can’t actually find the real authors name, so I cannot give true … Continue reading →

New Star Soccer 4 Chronicles #3 Note: New Star Soccer 4 is a great combination of sports simulation and role-playing game. I have some time off from my day job, so instead of actually working on any of my own … Continue reading →

Top 10 Most Played Mochi Flash Games of 2008gigaom.com is reporting today a list of the 10 most popular games on the Mochi ad network. All 10 are very well done, addictive games. The list includes 3 of my favorite … Continue reading →

The Flash game Forever Hunted, by Canadian university student, Evan Miller, has been named one of the Top Video Games of 2008 by Time Magazine. Most of the other games on the list were developed by teams of people and … Continue reading →

New Star Soccer 4 Chronicles #2: 8bitjeff season 2 start Note: New Star Soccer 4 (NSS4) is a brilliant independent game by Simon Read. It was released on Windows and Mac platforms in early November and I am spending some of … Continue reading →

Outstanding shoot ‘em up Polarity added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase WOW! And that’s a pretty powerful WOW! Thomsampson, Jeb (www.stimunationgames.com),  Vengeance (www.gamesgamesgames.co.uk) and Squize (now at GamingYourWay www.gamingyourway.com)  teamed up to put this game out a while ago, and … Continue reading →

Fresh Kill : Spike Arcade Edition  Spike.com, the web arm of Spike TV has launched an arcade filled with games that they claim are just for men (women will get a kick out of some of t these too I … Continue reading →

3d Space Shooter Star Force added to 8bitrocket Retro Showcase Star Force,  a very well made 3d first person perspective space shooter has been added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase. In the game, you pilot a space fighter against hordes … Continue reading →

New Star Soccer 4 Chronicles #1: 8bitjeff mid season 1 report Note: New Star Soccer 4 has been released by Simon Read and his team at Newstargames.com. Being a supporter of both the world footie game and independent computer games, … Continue reading →

A new Whirled? I get a lot of press releases, and while I read them all, I rarely spend the time to post an entire entry about a single one. Sometimes though, something special arrives and I feel the need … Continue reading →

New Star Soccer 4 is coming Nov 7th! I don’t write too many coming soon articles on PC games, but there is one game that is so good, and the wait has been so long, that I just can’t contain … Continue reading →

8bitrocket Fresh Kill Flash: A Biased selection of new (to us) Mochi Games. Games get on this list in one of two ways: 1. They are in the 25 newest Mochi games feed when I start writing this entry, or … Continue reading →

One of my favorite gaming podcasts, GameTheoryShow has bitten the dust today.    The show featured Gary Witta, Colin Campbell and Kris Graft (among others),  discussing games and the game industry in a way that harkened back to the best game journalism … Continue reading →

RuneScape, First Impressions RuneScape is a free Massively Multi-player RPG that I started to play off of the AddictingGames home page today. This British produced, Java based game plays very well on my New iMac. Considered to be the most … Continue reading →

I’ve talked a bit about Edge-Online in the past, but today they proved again that they are one of the best “general” game sites on the interbaun.  This week they started a new feature  by Colin Campbell that collects the … Continue reading →

Lorenzo keeps pumping out great Retro Multi-player games and we keep adding them to our site! Multi-player lets you play the classic against the world. This turn based game is a great example of the Nonoba Multi-player engine. Check it … Continue reading →

A couple years back I received Paper Mario: 1000 Year Door for the GameCube (to play on my Wii). At the time, I was playing many of the of Final Fantasy games via GBA and DS, but as soon as … Continue reading →