Archive for Tag: Minus the Pudding

  • Minus the Pudding Special Edition: Indie Games Winter Uprising

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments4

    Hello everyone, and welcome to "Minus the Pudding," where I have to get this intro out of the way now, because I have friggin' fourteen games to talk about today. Why's that? Because today, we're going to be talking about all of the games featured in the "Indie Games Winter Uprising." The Uprising (or, maybe THE UPRISING, because how much cooler does that look?) is an attempt on the part of certain XBLI developers to make sure everyone know that, hey, sometimes, good XBLI games are released, too, in addition to all the penis massagers The way they're doing this is by flooding the service with a whole bunch of good games, all at the same time, which is pretty much the opposite of what normally happens.

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

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    Early last week, GameCola reported on some new changes that Microsoft made to the Xbox 360 dashboard, in an effort to accommodate Kinect users, and slowly shift the balance of power over from actual gamers to casual gamers. THE END IS OF GAMING NIGH! In addition to enabling support for the Kinect, the new dashboard update made everything brighter, friendlier, and cleaner; allowed for easier access to ESPN (which I'm pretty sure you don't need an Xbox to watch); and, most importantly, it moved where you can find Xbox Live Indie Games on the 360.

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments3

    Do you remember I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT ? The Xbox Live Indie Game in which you shoot zombies, while a laser light show plays in the background? Maybe this theme song will help jog your memory, because it's pretty much the only reason anyone ever bought the game:

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments6

    Videogames have long been considered a form of escapism, a way for us nerds to (pretend to) leave our couch, put on a pair of pants, and leave our tedious lives behind so we can instead wander around a desert for hours and hours and hours in search of a goddamn save point, because we seriously just want to go to bed, but we can't, because WHERE'S THE SAVE POINT?! It's been HOURS since we last saved and we don't want to leave our system on all night, because who KNOWS what could happen then, so we keep playing and playing and FINALLY! Look! There's a save point! Only, before we can access it, we're forced into a boss battle and DIE because the stupid boss is IMPOSSIBLE to beat, and then we have to go to our last save point, which was so long ago that we don't even remember it!

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments2

    Forgive me, my dear readers, but after playing Enchanted Arms, I don't think I can go back to playing Xbox Live Indie Games. You might've seen this coming, considering how I described the game in my review, with phrases like "one of my new favorite videogames," "I had the freakin' time of my life," and "as he beckoned toward me with his throbbing, engorged, magically possessed right arm, I felt the waves of passion finally overtake me. 'Atsuma!' I cried, not sure if it was in pleasure or in pain. 'Take me! Take me now! Show me now what that arm of yours can really'"–you get the idea.

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments2

    I received a lot of criticism for my last edition of "Minus the Pudding," in which I alternately defined the word chefoo as "a made-up word," "a missed opportunity," and "a really great Xbox Live Indie Game." This upset a lot of people—especially one reader in particular who e-mailed me several helpful suggestions for where he thought I could stick my chefoo—because none of those definitions are actually correct.

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments2

    I'm famous. It comes with the territory of running, editing, and writing for a website on the Internet.

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments6

    This is only the second edition of "Minus the Pudding," but already I find myself wondering if, instead of playing these games, I'd be better off playing with actual pudding. Actual pudding may not have the solid AI of the day's top videogames, and it certainly has less replay value (eww), but it is delicious, and it's a lot more entertaining than most of the Xbox Live Indie Games I've been playing over the past several weeks.

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments2

    A round-up of the very few Xbox Live Indie Games that aren't soduku, including Don't Be Nervous Talking to Girls, Kissy Poo, and more.