For the past few years, I’ve listened to many XBox 360 owners explain why their console of choice was superior to the Playstation 3. And while some games - Dead Rising, Fable 2, and the upcoming Alan Wake for example - have made me wish that I owned a 360, for the most part I’ve been [...]

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Game demos aren’t generally something I’ve put much thought into. I’ve tried a game demo on occasion, but when I’ve been excited about a game, I generally haven’t made it a point to try out the demo before playing the game. I generally rely on online reviews, friends’ opinions, and metacritic scores. But as I’ve [...]

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Now that the end is in sight in terms of 2009’s video games, I thought I’d look back at all the games I played this year. I’ll definitely be playing Scribblenauts, Dragon Age: Origins, and Borderlands before the year’s over, and I may also be playing Uncharted 2 or Brutal Legend. But they’re all games that I’ll [...]

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Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge [...]

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In the first part of my Pixeljunk Monsters strategy guide, I covered gameplay strategies. In the second, I went into detail on the game’s towers and how best to use them. In this final segment, I’ll deal with the monsters and the inner workings of their lives.
It seems like every online guide calls most of [...]

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In part one of this article, I discussed general gameplay strategies. Now, let’s take a closer look at the game’s individual towers. For your convenience, I’ve also created a printable pdf quick reference guide. Yeah, it’s really ugly - I know.

Arrow Tower
The only tower in the game (other than a hive) that can hit both [...]

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Perhaps I’m a bit late to the party on Pixeljunk Monsters, but since I bought it from the Playstation Network store, I’ve been playing it constantly. It’s like crack. Not that I’d know what crack is like. What I mean to say is that the game is pretty damn addictive, and the demo’s free. We [...]

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