2009 – A Year in Review

It has only been 3 months since the launch of AGG and so we are not going to make it a tradition that we are going to, for example, list the top 10 games in 2009 for each platform, nor are we going to name a game of the year, I bet you can go to other gaming websites for that. For that is pointless, if there were 20 good games in 2009, as a dedicated gamer you would be … More…

PixelJunk Shooter — Gradius meets Metroid

We have looked forward to PixelJunk Shooter for a while even though we weren’t a fan of Q-Games’ previous works. PixelJunk Shooter not only did not disappoint, it is definitely one of the best original games on PSN, next to Fat Princess and Flower. This is a shooter that makes you think, as a matter of fact it is a puzzle-exploration game disguised as a dual-stick shooter. We took a while before we could settle with the tag-line of this … More…

Saboteur — the Artsy Swan Song of World War II Paris

Saboteur, the last game made by Pandemic Studio, now officially closed down as the next victim of EA’s long history of destruction of talented game development studios, just does not deserve all the hate from reviewers of prominent sites. To put it frankly, we have never liked any one game Pandemic has created so far during the years so we were oblivious when we heard of its demise. Now putting our hands on Pandemic’s swan song achievement of the combination of art and … More…

The Freakonomics of Piracy

We aren’t big nonfiction readers but over the years we have recommended a few books to others, Freakonomics and its sequel SuperFreakonomics being one of them. Humans respond to incentive — that is the underlying theme of this series by authors / economists Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Those of us at AGG will now apply the theory of Freakonomics to software piracy, a phenomenon that has existed since the dawn of personal computers and predated the Internet, an abnormality … More…

Zen Impression: Might & Magic — Clash of Heroes and a Reminiscence of Xeen

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes came as a pleasant surprise, that we never did keep taps of this game, and that when it arrived in our hands along with Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Clash of Heroes captured our undivided attention that we totally ignored the anticipated Legend of Zelda. Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, published by Ubisoft, developed by Capybara Games, is a strategy RPG game on the DS. Clash of Heroes is so unique that there’s nothing exactly … More…