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First Impressions: Super Meat Boy My initial assessment of Super Meat Boy (now available on Steam for PC ) is that it's everything that it was hyped up to be when it was originally released for XBLA. Its challenge level runs from moderate to punishing, but the trials seem to be entirely fair and ultimately beatable. The game has a similarly brutal, if somewhat cutesy, sense of humor. The main antagonist is a fetus…
Shattered Horizon has long been notable as the first game by Futuremark , the makers of benchmarking software. One would expect their game to be visually fantastic, and it is . What's more, Shattered Horizon is fantastic as a game. It is also probably the only multi-player first person shooter set in a realistic space environment. I can't tell you if the way it depicts gun fights in space is completely factually…
Altitude (published by Nimbly games, available on Steam for PC and Mac ; Linux version available from the game's site ) stands out among Steam's flying games. It's 2D, but not a top-down view, as you might expect in an aerial combat game. It's sidescrolling. Sidescrolling, 2D, flying, online multiplayer arena combat. And it gets even better with the game modes. There's the usual free-for-all and team deathmatches,…
