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OMG HD Zombies shuffling toward Steam on February 13
OMG HD Zombies, an expansion of a PSP Mini, is slowly chomping its way up the platform chain - after shuffling to Vitas last year, the chain-reaction zombie killer is headed for Steam's PC users on February 13. HD Zombies is stingy with bullets, but it doesn't make its players creep around dark corridors in a survival horror manner - instead, players look down on horde-filled stages, aiming with a scrolling reticle. Once a zombie is shot, its explosive gush of blood inspires the same fate from its surrounding brethren. Players clear screens of zombies by chaining together as many kills as possible per bullet, trading their killcount at the end for a bronze-through-platinum rating. Different zombie types switch up tactics over HD Zombie's 100 levels, and 100 unlockable upgrades stand to make clearing out each stage a bit easier. Resolution settings, gamepad support, cloud saving and trading cards have also been added to the PC port. If you're interested in spreading crimson gore over a gray cityscape, HD Zombies will cost $4.99 when it launches next week. [Image: Laughing Jackal Games]
Cubixx gets sharper edges in HD sequel for PS3
Last year, developer Laughing Jackal released a PSP Mini called Cubixx, a take on the "surround" gameplay of Qix, across a cube instead of a flat surface. Now the developer is updating its Mini for a much less "miniature" release, as a PS3-exclusive downloadable title. Cubixx HD features new enemies like black holes and asteroids, plus multiplayer with a customizable "Cubot" for each player. And, of course, as you'd expect from the system -- and from the name -- it's been prettied up significantly. Laughing Jackal has yet to announce a release date for Cubixx HD, unfortunately, so we don't get to say "it's just around the corner."
Retro-inspired Cubixx kicks off on PSP Minis
We want to be more upset at Laughing Jackal's wholesale appropriation of the Qix concept -- even going so far as to use a similar title -- for its PSP Minis game, Cubixx. But the fact is that Qix is awesome, whether Taito is making it or not, and it's relatively unexplored compared to other arcade classics like Pac-Man. And Cubixx does add an interesting wrinkle to the Qix gameplay: a cube, in which you attempt to draw lines to cover the area of all six faces. Cubixx will be released in Europe on Thursday 3rd December at a £2.49 price point. See some footage on the other side of the post break.
