Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Thank goodness for folks like al|together, who take the time to translate Japanese visual novels, and then repost them in the internet. Thank some even greater positive quality for the winner of the 3 Minute Game Competition, Crimsoness, which those fine translator chaps have posted on their site. It’s three minutes of high school emo rage, or something, and moderately amusing. Get it here. We don’t have a Rose & Camellia for 2009 just yet, but with outings like this we can assume it’s on its way.

It perhaps goes without saying that I found this link over on Insert Credit.

An intriguing indie platformer that we uncovered via TIGSource, The Manipulator sees you take control of other characters across the game to proceed. As The Manipulator you can jump like Mario, and control minds like Professor X. The game is presented in a lovely grainy sepia neon, which gives the ultra-simple art a suitable paranoiac quality. I think you’ll like it, just play with caution, it can be a bit tricky.

4mb direct download is here.

As 2008 came to a close, RPS had an idea. It was a novel, unprecedented idea. We’d do a round-up of all the big news stories of the year. Some kind of retrospective sort of thing – we didn’t have a name, as we knew it had never been done before. But we pushed onwards, not caring about such small possibilities. We knew that, in a very real way, it would be twelve posts. And here they are…
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