Hamtaro’s the cutest video game hamster, but he’s about to receive stiff competition from Newton, a cuddly little guy that sets off to rescue his girlfriend in Flying Hamster, which hits PlayStation Network December 7th. This fast-paced and weird 2-D shooter features tons of enemies to blast and six unique environments, making it a potential impulse buy. Even better, you’ll be able to play it on both PS3 and PSP.
John Artest (RunDLC)
indiePub has published its weekly update of new and notable indie games on the Playstation Store Indie Games Channel.
Best bets this week include: Cloudberry Kingdom, a 2D platformer with a random level generator; Draw Slasher, where you use your fingers to save a ninja’s family; Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery, a creative 3D puzzler, PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD, a tower defense game; and Puzzle by Nikoli V Slitherlink, which features 50 Slitherlink puzzles to play.
TheAppera - Side Scrolling shooters are nothing new to the App Store, but how many times have you wished you could control a flying hamster instead of the hi-tech spaceship? Well, with The Game Atelier’s latest game, Flying Hamster, now you can.
GameZebo - Parodying a game genre is nothing new. However, there are an awful lot of bad parodies out there – particularly those that try too hard. One of the best examples of a good parody was Parodius, a parody of a seminal space shooter called Gradius (parody + Gradius = Parodius). And while Flying Hamster isn’t built directly on the backs of other games, it does beautifully parody Japanese shoot-em-ups. It also happens to be a blast to play.
