Remember when cartoon mascot platformers were a dime a dozen? Oddly, one of these ancient relics is making an unexpected return.
Krome Studios' Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is getting a sequel, this time for Windows 8 PC and tablet devices. First jumping onto the gaming scene in 2002, three games were produced in the franchise during the PS2 era of games.
Back in 2009, in a small cafe in Culver City--peripheral to that year's IndieCade festival--a friendly, deep-voiced indie developer named Borut Pfeifer gave me my first taste of Skulls of the Shogun, a vibrant and colorful turn-based strategy in which rival teams of undead samurai would beat the tar out of each other. It was a very early build running on a laptop, but was more than enough to get the neglected turn-based strategy gamer in me to sit up and take notice.
As I sat down last week to begin playing through the game for this review, I really hoped that developer 17-Bit Studios--formerly Haunted Temple Studios--could live up to the growing expectations they'd built up over several years of development.
Play your cards right in the poker game coming free-to-play to Xbox Live Arcade and Windows 8.
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