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The Binding of Isaac turns one, goes 75% off on Steam Has it really been a year since The Binding of Isaac released? Time sure does fly when you're playing and replaying such a deceptively large game. To celebrate the one-year anniversary, Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl are discounting Isaac and its The Wrath of the Lamb expansion by 75% today. McMillen has also stocked his shop with some awfully sad figures of Isaac and co. that I couldn't possibly stand to have watching me all day long from my desk. "If all goes well maybe the adventure will continue next year on console," he writes in an email. That's the only Binding of Isaac news he's giving out this time, though McMillen did mention he's returning to work on Super Meat Boy: The Game for iOS and PC, plus an unannounced title "that should surprise a few people." Whatever the mystery project is, it'll "probably" be announced "in a month or so." Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)I guess I have no choice but to buy the game.... Oh well heard almost nothing but good things about it anyhow :) Scotty Pippin? I do not know any Scotty Pippin. The only Pippin I know and love is the Apple Pippin. Everything ever Apple is shit. Also, BoI is incredible. Easily sunk 50 hours into it... buy that shiz! Huge fan of his work! The Binding of Isaac really is one of the best games to have came out in the past year so I am pretty excited for whatever he has in store for us in the future. Hopefully it includes Danny Baranowsky's music, by far one of my favourite composers in the business! Super Meat Boy: The Game is coming to PC? I didn't know this! And a new game to be announced soon too?! I am excite. If I hadn't pre-ordered it back then when it launched i'd buy this in a heartbeat. Still it's an awesome game as long as you don't mind a challenge :) It's a very fun game!
Binding of Issac on Vita would be super awesome Imagine being on the bus and pausing the game and getting back to the game later after getting to the bus terminal and playing until your next bus came. It's little things like this that make me love portable gaming. As CrazyCowboyDon warns, people might want to wait longer. A better optimized non-Flash version of the game has been announced, which will be sold as a separate product (not a free update).
This is also true if you want any future (post-Wrath) DLC. An optimized non-Flash version is being created because the Flash version can't handle more content. Wrath of the Lamb itself apparently caused headaches, where adding or fixing one thing would break another. Ugh, I wasted $1. Too many chests that need keys, and bombs needed, but almost no keys or bombs in the game. No real save function, permanent death. PIECE OF CRAP FLASH GAME! @ElektroDragon
It's highly random. You'll have one game where nothing go right (like most objects being behind impassable pits, or lots of chests but no keys), and in the next the game will nearly hand you victory on a platter (powerful power-ups, just the items you need, etc). You'll get a run with shops but no money, and the next time you might get a ton of money with nothing worth spending it on. That part may be poorly thought out (and largely seems to consist of "cool ideas" thrown into the game without much concern), but it is acceptable. More problematic to me was the horrible performance (the game quickly slowed to a crawl on the first PC that I played it on long ago) and the annoying way that shots handled. Shots seemed designed to frustrate. The "arc" that "falling" tears took meant it wasn't immediately obvious where a shot was at any moment in the 2D map space. You could tell when the game was playing, but it took a moment of mental processing. On its own, even that wouldn't have been bad. But it was combined with the annoying idea of applying strafe inertia to shots. That inertia meant you could do a degree of "trick" shots to shoot around stuff, but it made it less obvious where any shot was going. Combining the two? Even with the game in motion, it took acclimatization to get the hang of just where you were shooting. Thanks for the info, Jordan. Just made this the first game I've (officially) purchased on Steam; everything else I have in my library is from Humble Bundles, thus don't count as actual purchases.
It's also surprisingly convenient, as I just watched Indie Game: The Movie this week. Super Hexagon now available on Android devicesTerry Cavanagh's dangerously addictive Super Hexagon is now available on most Android devices. The game caused quite the stir around these parts when it first launched and now a whole new audience has the opportunity to ... more Tackling Temple Run 2 for iOS at a full sprintWhen I got my iPhone in 2011, I immediately started snatching up as many free games as I could to get a feel for mobile gaming before making any actual monetary investment. One of those games was Imangi Studios' Temple Run, a... more Temple Run 2 hits the App Store this weekThe absurdly successful iOS and Android game Temple Run is getting a direct sequel from Imangi Studios very soon. So soon, in fact, that it's already available on the New Zealand App Store and will be making its way to other ... more Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes coming to iOS, AndroidOh hell yes! Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes is making its way to iPhones and iPads on January 24, with an Android version to follow sometime later. The mobile version will be based on the HD version that was released on Xb... more Spiritual successor to Shaq Fu out now for iOS, AndroidShaquille O'Neal has returned to gaming thanks to Hiptic Games, the developer of ShaqDown. An appropriately ridiculous-looking Android and iOS title available as of today, this $0.99 game isn't going to win any awards for or... more CES: Better in person: Nvidia's Project Shield handheldWith the help of our friends over at Nvidia I was able to slide past all the VIPs and execs here at CES to get a short bit of time with the newly announced Android-powered Project Shield handheld game system. The first thing ... more CES: Full-size MOGA Pro controller announced for AndroidPowerA's MOGA Mobile Gaming System for Android devices was a neat idea that must have done reasonably well for itself. The company has announced a new model at CES called the MOGA Pro which more closely resembles the standard... more CES: Nvidia announces Project SHIELD gaming handheldNvidia has today announced a new handheld gaming device -- Project SHIELD. Powered by the company's Tegra 4 processor, SHIELD can run Android games and stream PC titles from a Steam game library -- provided the PC in question... more Another Android-based console surfaces on KickstarterTaking an approach to console gaming not unlike what the OUYA is hoping to do, the GameStick is a small-scale, Android-based console that plugs into your television by way of HDMI. Creator PlayJam is aiming for $100,000 in pl... more Horror game Home to target Mac and iOS in 2013Independent horror game Home seems to have done well for itself on PC, reaching an audience of 100,000 players and counting, according to designer Benjamin Rivers. While now is a terrific time to try the title -- it's a mere ... more |     Dtoid is... Dale North Editor-in-Chief Jim Sterling Reviews Editor Hamza Aziz Dir. Communications Conrad Zimmerman Managing Editor Jordan Devore PC Editor Andy Dixon Community Manager Rick Olson Dtoid.TV Producer Niero Gonzalez Publisher Editors Meet the team Our sites Flixist Japanator Tomopop Contact Us Suggest News Advertising General Info  |
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