Rock, Paper, Shotgun

This trailer for Lego Indiana Jones 2 is the best game trailer that’s ever been made. I’m not going to add anything else to that.

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Once upon a time this platform game came out that no one cared about. Mark Donald was the editor of PC Gamer at the time, and it was given to me because it came from that guy who used to do adventure games, and I’m the adventure game guy. It was down on the magazine’s flatplan for a page. Psychonauts or something. Not knowing anything about it, and with absolutely no PR foretelling us about it, I installed it with confused expectations. Within a couple of hours I called Donald and said, “This needs more than a page.” By the next day I had bargained it up to four pages. Which was all the space they had left. Psychonauts was something special. And is now available for $10 on Good Old Games.

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LucasArts Workshop’s first game, Lucidity, is now available. It’s on Steam for £7, and we’re told it will be elsewhere (such as Direct2Drive) soon enough. It’s a platformer crossed with Tetris, where you guide the young girl, Sofi, through a dream-like world by placing objects for her to run across. The old trailer is below, along with LucasArts’ blurb for the release.

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A new trailer emerges for the first project from the indie-influenced LucasArts Workshop, Lucidity. Bearing quite a lot in common with the previous game footage, it also contains a few twists of its own, not least the one 55 seconds in.

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Braid is, of course, currently out on XBLA, but it’s heading to the PC soon too. When? Well, “soon”. But we’ve seen evidence of working PC code, so it can’t be too long. And to acknowledge this, and its phenomenally positive reviews on Xbox, here’s a video that should hopefully get you excited to play it soon. It’s also a far easier way of explaining the use of time travel in a 2D platformer than confuse-o-words ever could.

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Fancy some Wintery cheer? How about a quick game of Snowy Joe?

From the creator of a sweet little indie game, Twister, Gray Poyda’s new game is something he describes to us as a, “little winter giveaway. Just like in the old days :)”

It’s a platformer, where you use your arsenal of snowballs to shoot down bonuses, access keys, and unlock the exit door to the level.

It’s very reminiscent of those chunky platform games you’d play the demo of from the ST Format coverdisc, enjoy, but never buy the full version for. Capturing that atmosphere of brevity and clumsy fun, it’s a little bit of seasonal light-heartedness to see you through a cold, winter’s spare hour or two.