Gamer Limit is half-run by Australians, so why shouldn’t they get their own podcast? Jimmy and Colin are your hosts for the Oz version of LimitCast, creatively known as LimitDown.

The first of our three brand new GL casts, LD focuses specifically on the Australian gaming scene, occasionally featuring special guests from the local community including developers, publishers and more. We’ll talk about games at large of course, with a few other topics we think need to be aired.

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Atlus has been generous enough to allow us a few fresh peeks at their upcoming PSP RPG, Crimson Gem Saga. The title may lead you to believe that this yet is another RPG puzzle mash up, but don’t be deceived.  This is pure, unadulterated JRPG action.  Click continue to check out some sharp screen shots. Read more… »

The birth of the survival horror game as we know it was in 1992 when the influential Alone In The Dark was released. This creepy adventure was one of the first games to show us full 3D rendered polygons and had you fighting to stay alive inside a haunted mansion. In 2008 the Alone In The Dark series has been re-imagined for a new generation of gamers, crammed full of creative ideas and littered with flaws.

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Flash games nowadays are a dime a dozen. With sites like Newgrounds, Armour Games and Miniclip, you’re sure to find hundreds of them. But it takes a real artist to make a game worth playing to the end. Trust me when I say that there aren’t as many of these; this gem is called Oozing Forever by Pixelante Game Studios, and I enjoyed every moment of it. Read more… »

It’s funny that so many things are forcibly explained.  Characters and places are constantly being given foundations that enhance, or detract, from their personalities.  The Joker was given a back story in Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke, and while he stayed true to the character’s nature, knowing that he wasn’t always crazy brought stability to his psychosis.  This creates a small glimmer of hope in the Joker’s character that he may be able to return to his former self.

In Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight he circumvented Joker’s backstory to create, what he called, an “absolute.”  Without a background he is an insatiable force that always was, and always will be crazy.  I wasn’t surprised to see (especially after the release of the movie) an origin story of one of my favorite places, Silent Hill.  Silent Hill Origins isn’t the series first adventure on the handheld (Japan has seen a Game Boy Advance Text Adventure and a couple of mobile games), but it’s the series first, and hopefully last, origin story.

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DSi Ware is one of the advertised features of the 3rd generation DS – the DSi. DSi Ware are applications and games downloadable from the DSi store accessible by connecting your DSi to the internet via WLAN. Some of these applications are free and others cost DSi points, which are available for purchase from your local game store. Nintendo points can also be purchased and converted to DSi points (or Wii points).

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Intense naval battles are one of the things that video games seem to get right most of the time. Whether it be an airship, or a vessel on the ocean, sinking the battleship is always an exciting victory. Perhaps Battlestations: Midway will provide the same experience? Read more… »

Of the two new Halo comic series that Marvel announced at this year’s New York Comic Con, Halo: Helljumper has been slated for a July release, 1Up reports.

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Judge, jury and goddamn executioner of the Silent Hill series, Pyramid Head is one of the scariest guys in gaming; he’s not a man/thing/Egyptian monument you wanna mess with. P.Head has other names though; The Red Triangle Thing, Pyramid Head, and in Silent Hill: Homecoming the “Bogeyman”. Although none of these names sound particularly threatening, after you read this article you will forever fear the triangle and all its forms. Read more… »

Rare classic Banjo Tooie is making its way onto Xbox Live Arcade in one week.  This Nintendo 64 gem is the sequel to Banjo Kazooie, which has been available one XBLA for awhile.  The first Banjo game was an incredibly polished platforming collect-a-thon that gave N64 Juggernaut Super Mario 64 a run for its money.  Whether you’ve never heard of the great game, or are just hungry for some nostalgia, click continue for the new trailer. Read more… »

Apparently, our large ego’d friends from MySims have a new agenda on their plate.  Are they baking pastries to attract people to their town?  Are they racing customizable karts to maintain a city’s population?  No, this Fall, EA dresses the little tykes up for their most grown up adventure yet. Read more… »

If pressed, I would be hard put to call to mind a console possessed of a more ardent or passionate following than the Dreamcast.  Its untimely ‘demise’, clearly a wound that time’s passage has done little to heal, is even now recalled with a mournful, almost reverent air; the occasional rumors of a possible successor, by the same token, never fail to raise gamers’ hopes to vertiginous heights, despite the crushing disappointment that inevitably trails in their wake.

But though it may be ‘gone’ (insofar as Sega no longer supports it), it is by no means forgotten – not by a long shot.

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