Just got fired? Lost your girlfriend? Never fear, just pickup one of these turn-based strategy games to fill the void. Oh, and none of the above is applicable, don’t worry, it soon will be.
“Havoc and corruption swarms through the land, and you are one of those few wizards who can put an end to it. Create and combine magic gems, put them into your towers and banish the monsters back to hell!”
I just received a call from the internet host saying we are receiving too much traffic, hence I have to move the website to a new host.
Sometime today the website will be going down to move to a new host, and will return with 24 hours.
*Edit, just talked to the hosts. Apparently the outage should last less then an hour.
Apologies in advance.
2D platformers are a dying art, just managing to scrape along with the help of handheld consoles like the PSP and Nintendo DS.
The Playstation 1(PSX) is the last non-handheld console to have repeated decent 2D platformers released and these are the Top 10 of those.
Like all gaming websites we needed a forum… thus it has come to exist. So if you are a reader of Casualty Gamer be sure to make a post and introduce yourself!
The forum is starting very small, the more interest there is in the forum the more we’ll expand it.
Six very good flash games have been reviewed in the last month, although when it comes down to replayability and the sheer amount of time we pumped into it there could only be one choice.
These are the Top 3 Games.
Today’s weekly update is sadly missing as the entire weekend was spent redesigning the website, more updates to the website will be implemented over the next week, also to make up for the lack of an article today there will be extra content published this week!
Look forward to it!
Wolfull
“The game that takes you under the surface of arcade-style gaming and into the roots of fun. Tipping the hat to old favorites such as Dig Dug and Boulder Dash, Motherload incorporates a modern interface, fast-paced gameplay, and an in-depth storyline. Experience exciting gameplay in the substrata of Mars, where you’ll search for the Motherload; A [sic] fabled cache of rare and valuable minerals.”
Motherload while not being one of the latest games from XGen, is one of their more popular offerings. Winner of “Action Game of 2005″ from MiniClip.com, Motherload is a fairly enjoyable game. As the site says the game is fairly reminiscent of Dig Dug with all the umm… digging action. The game is fairly simple initially.
Games on the whole are all pretty weird but we, as gamers, just take this on board without really questioning them. We never wonder where Sonic puts all those rings when he’s quite clearly naked (possibly in his oversized socks?) or indeed why he’s even naked at all!! Nope it’s Sonic, he must have a reason and just hasn’t felt the need to explain himself! The following 5 games will make you think though, as they are just TOO bizarre to sit comfortably with our sense of what’s acceptable, observe:
The weirdness kicks in right from the off in Monster Party, the game starts with a cut scene of the main character, Mark, walking home from a baseball match with his bat over his shoulder. A gargoyle named Bert (as all the famous gargoyles are) spots him and whisks him away to his home planet charging him with killing all the invading monsters with his trusty bat.
It’s the bosses that really steal the show here with one being a giant spider lying on the floor, you enter the room and he shouts “Sorry I’m already dead” and that’s it, you win!! Result!! Others include 2 zombies who dance for 30 seconds then collapse and die, a bouncing shrimp and a huge cat that throws small kittens at you.
June has been quite a good month for Casualty Gamer, each week the readership has been going up, we are slowly getting higher ranked on the social networks, there have been numerous improvements on the site and we have been staying on track with our article publication deadlines.
If time permits over the next few weeks I’ll continue to slowly improve the usability of the site, and make it look ‘prettier’.
And July looks like it could be even better as I try to recruit a few like minded writers who want to help run a gaming website.
-Wolfull
