It’s delightful, of course. That won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who played Rayman Origins, one of 2011’s best games and an unlikely return to form for a character most had written off. With such a solid foundation, Michel Ancel and his team at Ubisoft’s Montpellier studio haven’t reinvented the wheel. What they’ve done is take an already wonderful wheel and polished it into something remarkable.Like the previous game, this is a 2D platformer in unashamedly classic style, delivering a constant stream of small gameplay nuggets. Every jump is a test, every obstacle a trial. Some must be tackled at speed, others allow you to think…

UPDATE: Ouya has confirmed that this ad was in fact put out by the console manufacturer, but it was only meant to “get feedback” from users rather than stay a permanent installation.The company explained this in a statement to Eurogamer, where it added: “We are experimenting with animated content and posted this video briefly to get feedback from our community. Stay tuned for our official video!”Original Story: Android gaming console Ouya has been promoted in a bizarre and bloody new advert posted to the company’s official YouTube channel last night. Read more…

In the beginning was the word. Words made the world and everything in it. Words made oceans surrounding a slope-backed island, and they made the steep, jutting rock of the island itself. They made a game, of sorts, and they made the landscape for the game to play out across. They made the characters in the game – all but one of them – and they provided puzzles for that final, missing character to work their way through. The end result? The end result is a game that has its developer laughing and shrugging as he tries to explain things to me. “It turns out that …

Nearly a year ago a new Broken Sword sequel, The Serpent’s Curse, was greenlit after nearly doubling its $400K Kickstarter goal with $771,560. Now series creator Charles Cecil and his colleagues at Revolution Software have released the first trailer for the upcoming globe-trotting adventure about attorney George Stoppard and his French journalist gal-pal Nico Collard.We saw a very small glimpse at The Serpent’s Curse’s art style in its Kickstarter pitch last September, but the minute-and-a-half trailer shows a lot more of its scenic locations, puzzle-based downtime, and flashy cinematics. It’s a unique art style that hearkens back to the late 90s with its use of 3…