Fan review: Mushroom Men

December 15, 2008

We love to hear what the true fans think about the game. arhivesweblog

We’re honored to be selected as ScrewAttack as their Pick of the Week last week.

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Atari has released an extensive playthrough video narrated by Creative Lead Dustin Dobson showing off a lot of the neat features specific to the Wii version. Watch it on Gamereactor. gamereactor

I’m very pleased that Boing Boing’s Offworld site picked up the story, as well.

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/gamer also picked up the story, adding their own commentary which is quite favorable.
gr_popular Mushroom Men is causing a stir over at GameRankings today. The first few reviews are in, and except for the negative reviews from GameInformer and 1UP dropping the overall average score, the critics are enjoying the game.

So far, half of the reviews are in the 80% range. My fingers are crossed that more reviewers agree.

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Everybody loves Ghostbusters!

December 12, 2008

Michael DePalma, a Long Island Movie Examiner for Examiner.com, talks video games as he focuses on the Ghostbuster’s move from the big screen to game console.

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The Awesomest Thing on the Internet today is Ghostbusters the videogame. TBT posted the high-res trailer for the Xbox360/PS3 version of the game.

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Jonathan Marx at Cheat Code Central wrote a fantastic review of Mushroom Men. It’s great to see when people recognize that the strength of the limited combat system in our action/platformer game comes not from excessive waggle (the 21st century’s button-mash) but from well-timed flicks of Pax’s weapons to perform deliberate attacks at the perfect moment.

NRevolution hates mushrooms

December 12, 2008

…but they enjoyed Mushroom Men.

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Ghostbusters team meeting

December 11, 2008

Quick Ghostbusters status meeting Dustin tells all

Creative Lead Dustin Dobson reports back to the team after the Atari Live event last week in London. We’ve been very excited about the enthusiasm Atari has shown the Ghostbusters project since they acquired it from Activistion, especially the extra attention they’ve paid to our Wii version.

True Game Headz talks to our very own programmer Jeff Lake about video game development and games in general.