XBL Indies: The Headsman Review

 I hate this game. I love this game. It truly is a weird feeling...

• Game: The Headsman
• Developer: Vector 2 Games
• Price: 80MS Points ($1.00)
• Release Date: 9/14/2009

Are you a frequent shopper of such trendy stores as Hot Topic? Have you seen Twilight more than twenty times in the past month? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you’ll probably love The Headsman. The game can be enjoyable, but the atmosphere cracks the living s*** out of me.

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XBL Indies: The Collector Review

Guess what you do in The Collector...you collect things!

• Game: The Collector
• Developer: Aztec Games
• Price: 80MS Points ($1.00)
• Release Date: 12/29/2008

If you enjoy collecting things than you’ll probably love The Collector. The object of The Collector is to collect different colored balls (they try to hide this fact by calling them “charges”) and then fill different colored powerCels in order to finish a level. The game can be quite challenging at times, but the challenge comes from poor controls, as opposed to a well-planned game design.

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Podcast: DF #74: Scribblenauts While Smoking Pot

There was no actual smoking of pot during the recording of this show. I just happen to enjoy rhyming and "pot" was the first thing that popped into my head. Anyway, another episode of Distributed Failure is here for everyone to enjoy. This week's episode features the usual discussion of XBL Indies, as well as a decent chat on Scribblenauts.

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Fall Out The Sky Trailer

Updated on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 7:55PM by Marc Kusnierz

Above is the trailer for the upcoming music video for "Fall Out the Sky", from the mixtape, "Everybody's Nobody". It will be premeiring on Myspace this Friday (aka September 18th). Why should you care? It just so happens that XV is a friend of Big St3ph3n and sir Stephen is featured in the video; he's going to be a star!

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XBL Indies: Foosball For Two Review

It's no coincidence that two rhymes with poo...

• Game: Foosball For Two
• Developer: Squimball
• Price: 80MS Points ($1.00)
• Release Date: 1/11/2009

Foosball For Two attempts to take the foosball formula and create a fun Pong-like game. It inevitably fails at this task and I can’t say that I know of a way it could have succeeded. Foosball is a game that just doesn’t translate well into video game form.

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