Posts By James Puglisi

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is the sequel to The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, an Xbox Live Indie Game by Ska Studios that eventually gained enough popularity to become a full-fledged Xbox …
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In most games, you only control one person at a time, or in other cases a group of people in some sort of strategy-type setting.  In Swarm, however, you control …
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Pokémon.  Just the word instills rage in some and pure excitement in others.  For a game series that has been around since 1996, Pokémon has yet to show any plans …
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Torchlight, a top-down Diablo-esque RPG by Runic Games, had originally been released on PC back in October of 2009.  I never had a chance to play the game myself, but …
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Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios / Developer: SouthEnd Interactive / Platform: XBLA

When ilomilo was announced as one of the three games being released during Xbox Live’s winter arcade event, I personally saw it as the weakest title.  Raskulls was something I was excited about from the beginning, and as you can see by our review was quite worth the wait.  A World of Keflings seemed like an interesting strategy type game, much like the previous game, and ilomilo just seemed like a boring puzzle game.

Never have I been so happy to be wrong about something.
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Ever since I was a kid and my dad’s co-worker handed me a copy of Day of the Tentacle on CD-ROM, I’ve always had a soft spot for point-and-click adventure …
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Raskulls, one of the three arcade games headlining Xbox Live’s big holiday sale/celebration thingy, was something I had no knowledge of until watching the trailer announcing the event.  The special …
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Publisher: Ska Studios / Developer: Ska Studios / Platform: Xbox LIVE Indie Games

ZP2KX, short for Zombies and Pterodactyls 20XX, is the “sequel” of sorts to last year’s ZP2K9; a side-scrolling 2D multiplayer platformer/shooter from Ska Studios, the makers of other Xbox Live Indie Game hits such as I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 and Dishwasher: Dead Samurai. Every game by Ska Studios boasts completely hand-drawn characters and levels, which all look quite impressive, especially in comparison to the stock 3D models that the majority of the Indie Games tend to stick with. Read More