EDG Podcast Ep. #142 – A Three Hour Tour
Listen in as Eric Bouchard, Chris Maeurer, John Danforth and Jay Sims are joined by Special Guest Andrew Fultz, fresh off the Nerd Rage Podcast. We discuss our Top 5 Games of 2011 and handle a plethora of feedback from our Twitter friends! Buckle up, it’s a great show and a bumpy ride!
Dustforce
Dustforce is a new downloadable platformer, from Hitbox Team, that was swept onto your Steam platform on January 17th. The game challenges you to make the levels spotless and continue your combo until the end, competing for scores and times on the online leaderboards. Last’s year’s demo certainly created a lot of buzz, but will the full game clean up, or just get left on the shelf to collect dust?
Dead Island : Bloodbath Arena
Dead Island went viral with it’s first trailer and created it’s own zombie apocalypse of interest. I remained a skeptic, even with the release of gameplay footage and more juicy details. After playing the game, I ended up eating my words quicker than the zombies of Hanoi chowed down on the unsuspecting tourists–it’s a fantastic game and a thrill ride I’m glad I didn’t miss. In November of 2011, the first piece of DLC, Bloodbath Arena, finally became available for the game. If you pre-ordered the game, or received a Collector’s Edition, than you received the DLC free, all other players could snag it for a mere $9.99. Is it worth the time, or will it leave you feeling like a zombie?
Trine 2
If you haven’t already checked out our preview of Trine 2, click
here, and I will try not to repeat myself. Trine 2 is the follow up release to 2009′s dazzling puzzle platformer, Trine. The game pits the player in control of a mage, a knight and an assassin, brought together by a mystical artifact and thrust into combining their strengths in the hopes of saving a kingdom. Wouldn’t you know it, trouble seems to have found a way to return, and the Trine once again calls it’s chosen warriors to save the day. Does Trine 2 measure up to the success of it’s breakout hit first iteration? Or will it just leave you puzzled? Read more
EDG Podcast Ep. #139 – Everyday Nerds Raging and Pressing Start
Listen in as Jay Sims, Kyle Stroud and Chris Maeurer make the last podcast of the year count with some special guests! We were able to steal away three hosts from their happy holiday slumbers and gaming hibernations to come out and record with us — the awesome Ben Suri, from
Nerd Rage and the awesome, indie-tastic Jeff and Xeserox from Just Press Start. We had a blast talking about some holiday memories, what has been gracing our holiday playlists and we took a look at the pros and cons of the crazy Steam sales. Read more
The Noob’s Guide To Terraria
So maybe you purchased indie hit Terraria from a recent Steam sale and you want to jump in but you don’t know where to start. Or maybe you haven’t fired it up in a while because the first time you did, you were instant toast at night, but now with the 1.1 update, you’re curious and you want another go. No matter what your motivation, I can give you a few tips to lower the barrier for entry in Terraria and get you mining and crafting in no time.
Trine 2 : First Look
Way back in 2009, Frozenbyte unleashed a gem of a puzzle/platformer on PC?Mac and PSN. That game was Trine, a beautiful and brilliant physics puzzler where the player guided a wizard, a thief and a warrior through a myriad of clever puzzles, using there own unique abilities, in a quest to find an heir to the fallen king and save a kingdom. In a couple short weeks, Trine 2 will continue that story, and we had a chance to play around in the beta. Will Trine 2 capture the majesty of the first title, or will it’s success just be a fairy tale?
Dead Island: Post-Mortem
Sure the game is only 2 months old, so it may seem odd to feature it in a post-mortem article. If you haven’t already seen our review, you can link it
here, but I felt compelled to share my own thoughts on the PC version, especially since I’ve been vocal about being disinterested in the game all year. From the moment I saw the trailer, I had a few things enter my mind. First, it was a beautifully crafted trailer, but there is no way the game will a) look that good or b) play that well. Second, who really wants more zombies? Read more
EDG Podcast Ep. #134 – Whippin’ Up Sammiches For Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to you all from all of us at Everyday Gamers! This week Jay Sims, John Danforth and Chris Maeurer slide into your Black Friday listening queue with a fresh EDG cast to compliment those turkey leftovers! We celebrate the one year anniversary of John’s first forray into podcasting on last year’s Thanksgiving Episode. Also, we discuss some Black Friday deals and some favorite Thanksgiving memories from year’s past! We wish you all a fantastic holiday! God bless!
Enough With The Excuses
Faithful fans of the show and the site (I’m looking at you Maverick) know that from time to time I have to fight off the “PC Gaming is Dead” ignorant mentality and the problems of the platform. They also know that from time to time someone lights my fuse on this topic, and this time, rather than try and cram my thoughts into multiple forum posts or 140 character chaingun Twitter bursts, I thought I would organize my thoughts here.