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Stick It To The Man now stuck to Xbox One
Following a successful run on PS4, PS3, Vita, Wii U and Steam, Zoink Games and publisher Ripstone have created a new version of wacky psychic adventure Stick It To The Man expressly for the Xbox One. Stick It To The Man centers on a hapless hardhat tester named Ray who wakes up one day to discover a noodly pink appendage has inexplicably sprouted from his head. That seems initially inconvenient, but the new limb allows Ray to read peoples' minds and manipulate objects in his environment – two skills that prove crucial as our hero attempts to flee the clutches of The Man. No new gameplay additions have been added to the Xbox One version of Stick It To The Man, but it does boast all of the lovely, colorful graphics found in its PS4 and PC incarnations. Stick It To The Man is now available for purchase from the Xbox Live Marketplace, where it features a $10 price tag. For more information on the quirky platforming adventure, pay a visit to the game's official website. [Image: Ripstone]
Coke-branded PlayStation All-Stars advergame hits iOS, Android
Sony recently announced a partnership with Coca-Cola to bring a Coke Zero-branded game to iOS and Android by the name of PlayStation All-Stars Island. The game features four characters: Sackboy from the LittleBigPlanet series, Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series, Cole MacGrath from the InFamous series and Kat from Gravity Rush. Those four characters tackle four mini-games in which players collect Coke Zero "orbs," which are then used to unlock "Make it Possible" moves. PlayStation All-Stars Island is available now for free through the iOS App Store and Google Play store. %Gallery-195705%
WiiWaa has the plushiest peripheral ever
At first, this trailer for WiiWaa had us quite skeptical. Seeing a Wii Remote shoved down the throat of an adorable plush doll clued us in. Certainly this had to be another fake Wii game, a la Mass: We Pray! However, it didn't take long for this trailer to work its magic on our cold, Scrooge-like hearts. Translating playtime with a real-world doll for a video game is rather brilliant, transforming an inanimate toy into something much more engaging and interactive. We can already imagine parents fighting each other at Toys 'R' Us for a WiiWaa plush/game combo set at Christmas next year -- provided the game is, y'know, real. [Thanks Andrew C.]
Recently revived KORE makes its 'krazy' video debut
We initially dismissed Zoink and SnapDragon Games' KORE when it popped back into the news a few months ago -- after all, how good could a game that was initially designed for the original Xbox, cancelled, then revived for the Wii possibly be? Our hopes for the title were admittedly low -- however, a pair of videos for the redesigned platformer, including the trailer above and an 11-minute gameplay montage (embedded after the break), recently made their way onto GameTrailers ... and into our hearts.Okay, we're still not entirely sold on KORE quite yet, but the robo-platforming and Psychonauts-esque visuals are more than enough to pique our collective interest. We'll be keeping an eye on the resuscitated title as its ambitious developers continue revamping it -- we just hope they kan limit the inkorrekt usage of the letter K. It upsets the English majors among us.
