Surgeon Simulator 2013 is a fiendishly difficult game where (to the tune of the Casualty theme) players take control of cyber-surgeon Dr Nigel Burke’s hands and attempt to complete a heart transplant.
The sheer frequency of ragequit (above, second video) has ensured its mimetic status.
YouTuber and dancin’ fool Takaske attempts the highest difficulty level (and a setting involving both sets of footpads) on the DanceDanceRevolutionX3 arcade game.
Despite the foot frenzy, he scores a mediocre ‘C’ ranking.
A typing speed challenge game from Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson as a submission to the rapid game creation competition Ludum Dare.
It’s infuriatingly difficult.
Play it here (you’ll need to install Unity Player first).
‘You can keep your nasty drug paraphernalia.
And I’m fairly sure there was no cash in that wallet.’
The Jump is set in Monopolis, a dark futuristic city, cut off from the rest of the world after a mysterious worldwide earthquake. The city is now controlled by World Corp who have outlawed fun and sent their evil mob to break up parties…
Irish software boffins Gone Gaming have released their first computer game – The Jump: Escape The City.
Free to download on iPhone and Android it’s a fun take on the classic post-apocalyptic drivey/jumpy/collecty format.
Also, apparently this sort of thing counts towards the knowledge economy, so anyone who doesn’t play it is an economic traitor.
The director of PS Network game Datura has released a video teaser for his mad-as-a bottle-of-chips new project:
Catzilla was described to Eurogamer by Datura director Michal “Bonzaj” Staniszewski as “an exercise before future challenges”. It’s a benchmark designed to check your computer’s graphics capabilities that doubles as an animated short. That features giant cats who shoot lasers out of their eyes. With dubstep.
Staniszewski, who works with the Polish demoscene group Plastic, told us the video has “spread widely without anyone noticing it’s a PC benchmark”.
You can download the Catzilla beta (released earlier this month) here.
Not Pacman by Stabyourself is a head-wrecking reboot of the original game where the controller spins the whole field of play and gravity controls the Pacman and ghosts.
Download for Windows, Linux, OSX and source code here.
Ours is the Speculum.
No it isn’t.
This morning, Hasbro launched a public vote to replace one of its older, ‘classic’ Monopoly playing tokens (car, thimble, boot, dog, boat, hat, iron and wheelbarrow) with a new-fangled one: robot, ring, cat, chopper or guitar.
Our heads say robot but our hearts say cat.
Vote here.
Naturally, the games company already have a combined old-and-new special edition planned for next month.
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