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Platform games EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Monday Mind Teasers: Colour My World 13 This week's mind teaser uses even less color than last week's fun hacking simulator game. Colour My World was rated as one of the top five Newgrounds games of October, and when you beat it in jus... Confirmed: Golgoth working on Joe & Mac remake after Toki 17 The prospect of Golgoth Studio updating Joe & Mac for the high-def era when work on the gorgeous-looking Toki remake is finished excited me greatly, and it definitely excited you guys a lot t... Braid bringing rewind potions to PS3 next week 43 Braid is a pretty terrific game as far as platformers go, and anyone gaming primarily on a PlayStation 3 will soon have the chance to see what all the fuss is about; cause for celebration if I've... Golgoth working on Data East IP after Toki remake 22 Any studio who can so brilliantly capture the essence of a retro game and bring it into the modern era -- without going overboard -- like Golgoth is doing with Toki is fine by me. In an interview... Review: Lost Winds: The Winter of the Melodias 17 When I heard the news that a second Lost Winds game was coming out I knew I had to finally download the first game and become a big fan of it. So I did download it and I did become a big fan of i... Indie platformer Igneous is like Mirror's Edge, but good 103 Igneous, the remarkably pretty and well-paced student project I highlighted a few months back, is finally complete and can be downloaded for free right here. To summarize: Igneous is a 3D platfor... Happy Halloween from P.B. Winterbottom and a pie 1 The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom has been floating around the publisher's swimming pool looking for a publisher for a while now, but it's finally been picked up by 2KGames and is getting a ... 'Splosion Man: Avatar Awards, a multiplayer fix and steak 7 Easily one of the better downloadable games to come out this year, 'Splosion Man was really only hurt by one thing: the inability to consistently get a good online co-op match going. The further ... Nothing is sacred: killing God atop the Tower of Heaven 40 [Editor's Note: We're not just a (rad) news site -- we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive the opinions of Destructo... On XBLA this week: Inferno Pool and Rainbow Islands 3 It's a decidedly gloomy week for Xbox LIVE Arcade. Both games, Inferno Pool and Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure!, are re-releases from other downloadable services (PSN and WiiWare, respective... CONFIRMED: LL Cool J is playable in Super Meat Boy 29 I may not post much news on the Destructoid front page, but I do, occasionally, have my moments. I've been known to investigate things. I once reported something. Every so often, when the sun is ... Too much Super Meat Boy news to fit in this headline 24 Crap, I forgot to read the Super Meat Boy twitter for a few days, and it turns out that I missed a f*ck-ton of news. First is the above video, that shows us exactly how terrifying Super Meat Boy ... Frozenbyte expains Trine's US PlayStation Network delays 8 The story of Frozenbyte getting Trine onto PlayStation 3 -- specifically the US PlayStation Network version -- is pretty depressing. Thankfully, this story has a happy ending, but for a while the... It's an Alientrap: XBLA shooter Capsized debut trailer 10 The trailer for Alientrap Software's physics-based action-shooter Capsized has been making the rounds for about a week now. I'd made a mental note to post it already, but I got distracted by some... Ghosts 'N Goblins: Gold Knights confirmed for iPhone 20 Arthur and Lancelot together in a single videogame. It's happening. Again. Think about it!Alright, so the name might be different than what we originally thought it was going to be, but Capcom is... Golgoth remaking gorgeous arcade monkey-shmup Toki 35 Up until yesterday, if you were to ask me about monkeys in videogames, I'd start off with Donkey Kong and then mention Super Monkey Ball, Samba de Amigo, and maybe those enemies in the Green Hill... 'Bout time: Trine due out on PSN this Thursday 19 Nobilis product manager Olivier Vermeille brings good news: Trine is finally coming to the PlayStation Network. The PC version has been available for months, and hell, even Trine for PlayStation ... New Mario Bros. Wii is going to be epic, video proof 46 I realize that the amount of great games landing next month is very, very high, but in all honesty I would gladly sacrifice them all in order to get my hands on New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Mario f... Run, jump, shoot: check out Sparky's Star Guard 4 I don't know about you guys, but it's a slow day here at work. It's raining and cold here and, to be honest, I'd rather be at home with a mug of hot chocolate and a controller in my hand. A First... Interview: Tom Sennett & Matt Thorson, creators of RunMan 14 ...": Race Around the World," the headline would say, if Elephant's character limit weren't so painfully brief.Of course, I don't have to tell you that. You've already played RunMan: RA... Could user-created RunMan: RATW levels be on the horizon? 6 We've already discussed the greatness of RunMan: Race Around the World in some detail. But now that you've played it, beaten it, donated money and unlocked all the characters, what's left to do? ... Sorry, no enhanced version of new RunMan game coming 12 Upon completing Tom Sennett and Matt Thorson's RunMan: Race Around the World, I had only one thought -- namely, that the two creators oughtta be drowning in money for making such a damned good pl... Review: JUMP! 73 I'll be as forthcoming as I can: I didn't finish, nor will I probably ever finish JUMP!, the first of several XBL Indie Game from Arkedo (the guys behind Big Bang Mini, if you're keeping track) p... LostWinds lands in UK, the rest of the world gets trailer 15 How's it going UK? Your weekend going well? Playing lots of games? Good, good. Say, what's that one? That... that looks like LostWinds: Winter of Molodias. You've had it since Friday! It marked ... A Boy and his Blob and their boss battle and this blog 21 We're out of adjectives to positively describe ABAHB. WayForward is not making our jobs easy. Every time we get a new bit of information, an exclusive, some screens or a new video on A Boy and H... Well that was quick: Debut trailer for Rocket Knight 34 It's only been a few days since the announcement and already we are getting gameplay footage of the new Rocket Knight game. Who knew my guardian angel was A) into videogames and B) a total badas... There's lots of jumping in Arkedo's JUMP! 31 Arkedo, the studio behind Big Bang Mini and Nervous Brickdown, have come out with a new game called JUMP! for the Xbox Indie Games Channel. It’s a retro style platformer where you have to b... Here's Bayonetta running on a PS3 34 Much ado has been made of Bayonetta's sucky performance on the PlayStation 3. Mostly by me, because it's easy to wind people up about that sort of thing. When Sega chose to first show the hot Pla... A new Rocket Knight game is coming to XBLA, PSN, Steam 62 Brace yourself, Internet. The mere rumor of Climax developing a new 2.5D Rocket Knight game made you guys bananas (myself included), and now that said rumor has been verified as truth, I don't ev... LittleBigPlanet PSP officially dated for November 16 If there is one thing I can always have more of (and there isn't, there are many things) it's more LittleBigPlanet. I don't own a PSP though, so more LBP is not coming my way any time soon. For t... When less is more: impressions of Morsel's Kaleidoscope 6 It was one of two games not to win an award at the competition but, given the fact that it's only been in development for two months, its selection as one of six finalists is impressive neverthel... This Super Meat Boy footage is highly impressive 25 Taking into consideration the fact that I don't need fancy graphics to "wow" me, yeah, the first official gameplay footage of Super Meat Boy was impressive. Sometimes less is more, and ... Art Attack Friday: The Braid that almost was part 1: Tim 15 It's good news/bad news time again. Bad news first: for the next few weeks, I'll be borrowing Art Attack Friday from the infinitely more sexy and attractive Hamza"CTZ" Aziz. The good ne... Konami brings Reflection to DSiWare 8 DsiWare has kind of bleh since its launch, with my only two notable favorites being Mighty Flip Champs and Pictobits (although I am quite looking forward to the new Shantae game!). Perhaps Konami... VVVVVV may have an odd name, but it sure does look fun 44 When it comes to platformers, I like them to be horrifically cruel and set to a catchy tune. While more often than not I have to settle for one or the other, Terry Cavanagh's upcoming VVVVVV look... Braid for $5 on Steam is a pretty sweet deal, I'd say 22 Instead of spending five bucks on lackluster fast food at one of those late night joints, why not use the money to fund an exciting purchase of Braid from Steam? Forget about "going back in ... Addictive one-button platformer of the week: Canabalt 56 I'm not entirely sure why, but I've been replaying Canabalt, a free, browser-based platformer, at least once every two days since it came out.Perhaps I long to luxuriate in the luscious pixel art... A Boy and His Blob launch trai... so cute! 26 When was the last time you watched a game trailer and smiled from the sheer joy of it all. Been a while, right? Well, go ahead and check out the "launch" trailer for A Boy and His Blob ... LBP demo lands this week with GOTY edition 20 Long ago, in a year known as 2007, mankind was disappointed by the news that there would be no demo for the upcoming PS3 exclusive LittleBigPlanet. We were only disappointed though as we assumed ... Review: NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits 56 NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits (formally known as Icarian: Kindred Spirits) joins Braid and Lost Winds in the ever-evolving "platformer 2.0" movement that's been picking up steam of late. Li... Art from the canceled 2003 Earthworm Jim game re-surface 18 Here's your second dose of canceled game esoterica for the night, again courtesy of Unseen64: concept art and details about the ill-fated Earthworm Jim prototype for the Xbox and and PlayStation ... Flashbang's Time Donkey is now available on Blurst 7 Flashbang Studios, purveyors of weird and creators of Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and Jetpack Brontosaurus, have released a new game. It's called Time Donkey, it was made in eight weeks, and you... MEAT! Bonk: Brink of Extinction to hit WiiWare/XBLA/PSN 17 Hudson is really mining the hell out of its TurboGrafx-16 library these days, and I for one couldn't be happier about it. Before the SNES was released, the TG-16 was my 16-bit system of choice, d... A spiritual successor to Cloning Clyde? Sure, why not 7 Remember Cloning Clyde? It was one of the earliest (decent) Xbox LIVE Arcade games and was created by one of the stronger supporters of the distribution service, developer NinjaBee. The studio ha... And Yet It Moves coming to WiiWare, has trailer 13 DSiWare might be sucking it up big time at the moment, but if you take some time to get to know your WiiWare you'll see that Nintendo's other downloadable game service is actually rocking pretty... Holy crap, this Ratchet and Clank trailer is really good 39 Insomniac should write a book on how to make an exciting trailer because they consistently manage to get my blood pumping whenever they release one. Take, for example, this new Ratchet and Clank:... Go down, Moses: for the love of God, play Tower of Heaven 37 If you're in college (or a particularly rambunctious teen) you've probably played a drinking game called King's Cup. Well, substitute the Shlitz for a three-color platformer with an aboslutely ki... New project by Knytt creator being published by Nicalis 15 Publisher Nicalis has been quite busy snapping up PC indie titles and bringing them over to WiiWare: Pixel's excellent Cave Story most famously and, most recently, La-Mulana. Even though none of ... Bionic Commando patch is up, makes PS3 owners girlie men 41 Yesterday it appears that a patch was released for Bionic Commando: Rearmed over PSN. The update is a bit of a mixed bag, unless you're a total wuss and can't beat the game as it is. See it does ... SDCC: Bayonetta will have no DLC 27 Platinum Games held a nice little Bayonetta panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, where it was revealed that the team has absolutely zero plans to release downloadable content for the sulty action ga... Want a NyxQuest release date? Have this intro video instead 6 Ok, ok, I have to admit that the intro to Over the Top's NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits (embedded after the break) is about four days old by now. But, here's some logic: if I haven't seen it, then the... 'Splosion Man, Shadow Complex, and more get priced, dated 21 Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson (God, I love saying that) agrees that today has been one hell of a mighty slow news day, and to remedy the situation, he broke out something exciting: the release dates a... Indie Nation: MoneySeize 14 At irregular intervals, "Indie Nation" highlights interesting games from the independent scene. I'm tempted to call Matt Thorson the king of indie platfomers, which may sound weird cons... Review: Trine (single-player) 37 We've been following Trine for a while now, and with good reason: a game that provides mishmash of platforming, action, and physics-based puzzle solving involving three different instantly interc... Best day ever? Fez coming to XBLA in 2010 27 The rumors are true! Fez, the hybrid 2D/3D indie platformer for PC that looks as if it could instantly bring joy to your life within the first few seconds of booting it up, has been confirmed for... Renegade Kid shows off its muddy 3D DS platformer 11 Renegade Kid (the developer behind the technically impressive Dementium and Moon for Nintendo DS) has revealed its new project, a third-person platformer, to IGN. Called Maximillian and the Rise ... lol wut: Earthworm Jim "Making of" documentary is rad 27 Here's a bit of surrealism (or an acid flashback) for your Monday evening: the fine folks over at Bitmob have dug up a short making-of documentary for Shiny Entertainment's Earthworm Jim. Dependi... Over the Top's Icarian has been renamed NyxQuest 10 Say goodbye to Icarian: Kindred Spirits, and hello to NyxQuest. Madrid-based developer Over the Top sent out an e-mail this morning explaining that, for some mysterious reason, the game's name ha... Review: Eduardo the Samurai Toaster 34 Okay, here's the thing -- I'm biased. Well, maybe not biased, but I certainly have my preferences. Those preferences include 2D games, platformers, run-and-gun shooters, and games made by small, ... Slammin' riffs: Tecmo bringing Fret Nice to XBLA, PSN 9 I'm really glad that ultra-niche gaming blogs like Offworld and SiliconEra exist -- without the Spencer Yips and Brandon Boyers of the world, I would never know that Tecmo acquired the rights to ... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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