Plants vs Zombies jack-o’-lantern
As Halloween swift approacheth we continue to see interesting and amusing video-game themed jack-o’-lanterns. Just last week we found ourselves an 8-bit space invader lantern, but this week brings us a little bit further into the 21st century by referencing everybody’s favorite Popcap game: Plants vs Zombies.
Once again, we end up with a terrible cell phone photograph, but the carving pops out a bit better this time. The pumpkin becomes a strange glowing effigy around the image of the zombie eating a plant.
If anyone else has a fun video-game themed jack-o’-lantern, feel free to send it in! We’d love to post more of these for everyone to enjoy.
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Video: Blizzard including a Plants vs. Zombies clone quests in Cataclysm
Get ready to soil your plants! Plants vs Zombies coming to XBLA
The ever-so-enjoyable Popcap Game’s Plants vs Zombies is coming to Xbox Live Arcade today for about 1200MS points. This extremely popular game happens to be a mainstay of down time for us voces as we come up with new and interesting ways to down those zombies.
For everyone else out there who have got Zen Gardens overgrown with various plantlife, and have been spending days collecting and uprooting marigolds for the fabled anti-zombie plants, this could be a fun addition. It will also add a social aspect to the game with XBLA achievements—and player housing? Needless to say, this still fits the PvZ paradigm well enough because we do have to defend our house after all.
Perhaps they’ll give us the ability to change the color of our tricycle?
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PopCap Games Bookworm and Bejeweled Twist Coming to DS, DSi
They’re coming to get you, Barbara. PopCap Games, publisher of small, desperately addictive game titles that sell millions to bored housewives and OCD college students, has recently announced that two of their more popular titles will be appearing on Nintendo’s DS and DSi systems.
Now, not only can you obsess over games whose rules could fit on the back of a business card, you can go portable with it, sneaking in rounds at work, while driving, during those long seconds between jumping out of the plane and opening your parachute, and so on.
Bookworm involves a caterpillaresque creature in massive spectacles named Lex, who devours words that you create from tiles on the screen. Think of it as Tetris by way of Scrabble.
Bejeweled Twist takes a field of gemstones, and tasks you with exploding them by turning and spinning the gems into groups and lines. It’s …
Review: Bookworm Adventures Deluxe
Behold the lowly bookworm—green, bespectacled, and possessing of terrible wit. This little fellow is named Lex, and he’s from a previous game, Bookworm. From our experience with that game, Bookworm Adventures does differ somewhat. For example, the puzzle interface is basically a scrambled set of lettered tiles in a 4×4 field; in Bookworm the selected letters had to be touching in order to spell words—in Bookworm Adventures they can be grabbed from anywhere.
The game presents itself with a somewhat flimsy but adorable narrative about a character trapped in a book about Greek mythology. Her name is Cassandra, a lovely, alabaster skinned Helena of Troy with green eyes and shimmering blonde hair who cries out to Lex for aid. As a bookworm, of course,
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Review: AstroPop Deluxe
We came into this game looking at the cute, smooth rendered characters as mascots for space adventures and companions in this arcade puzzler—however, when it came down to the brass tacks, this game just wasn’t our cup of tea.
AstroPop presents itself as an action puzzler involving another color matching mechanism that we’ve seen many times before. It sets itself aside from other games by presenting a new way to approach this color matching. Bricks arrive from the top of the screen with the player at the bottom. The player flies a ship with the ability to grab blocks from the descending colorful menace up to a stack of four, and can release them back. Matching four or more blocks causes them to vanish as per usual.
While …
Review: Bejeweled Twist
Continuing on with our trek through casual gaming, we took a break from abusing cute, fuzzy colored koosh-balls for their eyeballs and decided to move onto shattering glittering gemstones in spaaaace. At least, this is how our first impression of Bejeweled Twist came about. A great deal of the artwork and presentation tied up in the game seems to suggest SciFi elements, right down to alien landscapes, and a spacecraft moving between levels.
The game itself is remarkably similar to the original title of Bejeweled: take a 2D grid of gemstones of various colors, exchange the positions of the precious gems to match them in rows, once matched they shatter and their neighbors collapse in to take up the emptied space. The twist of Bejeweled Twist, of …
Review: Chuzzle Deluxe
Color matching games have long become the Connect4 of the penultimate puzzle arcade game experience for the PC—the solace of sleepy housewives, bored office workers, and insomniac marathon Made for SciFi movie watching. Chuzzle from Popcap games is no exception to the shifting bands of random objects, matching up to three similar to cause them to vanish from the field…
At least—during a cursory examination.
Chuzzles appear to be cute blobs of fur, akin to Koosh balls with eyes. The object of the game is to shuffle rows of these fuzzy animals to that similarly colored chuzzles line up in as few as three. When this event happens they explode with a squeak and their eyeballs are sucked up into a flask on the side of the screen. Their eyeballs!
Chuzzle is a morbidly adorable color matching game where we are asked to …
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