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Review: Shadow Complex (Xbox 360)

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When I first heard about XBLA, and the kind of games you would be able to buy, I was a little skeptical of any real quality coming from it. Geometry Wars was neat, but I was really expecting it to be a medium used to foist Bejeweled clones upon us. I never expected to get something quite like “Shadow Complex”.

Shadow Complex is Chair Entertainments’ second shot at an XBLA game. While their first game, Undertow, wasn’t especially strong, they have come back this time around with renewed vigor. Shadow Complex is a breath of fresh air for the downloadable games market, and makes me reconsider what the platform is capable of.

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Barrel Roll! Episode 21 – “2 Tickets to the Gun Show”

"Do you got your tickets?"

"Do you got your tickets?"

Well, do you?

We don’t got time to bleed, nor does pain hurt when we are once again visited by our good friend, Wesley “InsulinFunk” Johnson. He has been playing “1 VS 100″ on XBLA, trying to finish “Shadow of the Colossus” for our upcoming special episode, Simon the Sorcerer and Ghostbusters.

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Game Idea: Sharks on Wheels

Game Idea Sharks on Wheels Copyright Dave Corvin 2009 WingDamage.com

Do you ever have one of those little flashes of inspiration? Where you are sitting there doing some random thing and you think “I have a great idea for a game.”

Well, here at Wingdamage.com we are all about gamers and gamer culture. I think a big part of being a gamer is thinking up your own ideas for what would make a great game. So with that in mind, I thought we could have some fun and share some of our ideas about games we have thought up. To start us off, I thought it would be fun to share with everyone an idea I had for an XBLA or PSN game.

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