Platform: Computer: Mac / PC
Release: 2006
Developers: Florian Himsl and Edmund McMillen (Komix Games)
Publisher: Newgrounds, Komix Games
Genre: Sidescroller

Hosting: Newgrounds and Komix Games

[First review* by Alexander Kramer, of another review blog, Seattle Whispers]

Tri-Achnid is one of those rare games that one discovers on the Internet, rather than being led to it–like a gem in the darkness. I don’t remember exactly how I came across this game, but I’ve loved it from the moment I started playing.

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Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, PC (Reviewed)
Release: 2011
Developer: Sonic Team
Publisher: Sega
Genre: Platformer, Action Adventure

In recent years, the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has been somewhat of a joke among gamers as each new Sonic game produced has been met with almost universal dislike by both reviewers and gamers.

Sonic Generations changes all that. At long last, we have a Sonic game that returns to the fun, fast paced gameplay that made Sonic popular back when the series first began, while cutting down on the weak mechanics and other annoyances that have kept recent games from being considered any good. Continue reading →

[Image credit:Noghiri  Travel Photos: Vitrified spheres from 1971.  Good thing I packed this handy portal gun...]

Hello, I am Noghiri.  Welcome to PROSQUID.  I am probably going to be the main Tech Writer.  I promise I will give intelligent information in my articles, and be as helpful as possible.  I will also post some travel photos as I visit alien worlds and other… interesting places, such as this one from my trip to the Aperture Science Testing Facilities.

If you are reading this, whoever you are, you have stumbled upon my first article for the inevitably famous and well-known gaming website prosquid. As this is my first post, I wasn’t really sure what to write about, but what I kept coming back to was the very recent launch of the PlayStation Vita in Japan. A launch for a system that could fundamentally change the dynamics of the video game industry as we know it. Will the future of handheld gaming remain a mix of dedicated handheld gaming machines and smartphones? Or will handheld gaming go the way of the dinosaur, and get killed off by a crushing smartphone meteor? Read on as I explain why the PS Vita represents a “make or break” moment for the survival of the handheld gaming industry as we know it.

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