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A Kingdom for Keflings review suggests its a cool game

We mentioned A Kingdom for Feflings a week or two back after spotting it on the Xbox site. Well the ladies over at Lesbian Gamers have a few new reviews up this week, including "A Kingdom for Keflings". This is the sort of title some might otherwise overlook, but after reading the review I for one felt even further compelled to get the demo and I was glad I did.

A Kingdom for Keflings is what you might call a no bullshit game. It's simple, straight to the point and doesn't pretend to be something it's not. The girls at Lesbian Gamers were right on the money when they described A Kingdom for Keflings as "an adorable title and one that is quite genius in its innocence."

We thought we'd highlight it here given the love that's clearly gone into this title and after spending some time with it last night I'd concur that it is a little gem in the XBLA arena that you should definitely check out.

Via [LesbianGamers]

Planet Fallout make awesome Fallout 3 Google Map

Sometimes I'm not sure where people find the time, but frak me the guys and gals at Planet Fallout have outdone themselves with their Fallout 3 Google Map, it's frakkin awesome. If you're stuck and need a little help finding your way around (and let's face it with that crappy map system in your Pip Boy you probably are!) you might want to check out what Planet Fallout have done. Amazing stuff, kudos to them.

Planet Fallout Google Map for Fallout 3

Guitar Hero Bike Tour - Amazing

This stinks of being a professional viral job, but whatever the case you can't help but be rather gobsmacked by the precision and nature of this little Guitar Her World Bike Tour clip found loitering innocently on YouTube.

Left 4 Dead kicks Zombie ass - Buy it

That pretty much sums up our review of new Valve zombie fest "Left 4 Dead". The game which is essentially truly alive (haw haw) when you play it in 4 player co-op is truly something to behold. If you like mad action shooters, and more importantly if you like them with zombies and big fat bloated zombie hangers on that explode, well what are you waiting for.... BUY the damn game!!

On the downside there's 4 characters and only one of them is female. It would have been nice for Valve to shoot us a little equality and make things 2 and 2, but saying that, Zoe does kick ass.

A Kingdom for Keflings - Not Kelflings!

A Kingdom for Keflings is an upcoming title for the New Xbox Live Experience. It's being touted as a sort of mini "Settlers" only you'll get to play your very own walking avatar in the game as you help little townsfolk (the Keflings or of you can't get The Dark Crystal out of your head The Kelflings) build stuff. A Kingdon for Keflings sounds like a cross between The Settlers and Doshin the Giant to us, but we definitely want to give it a go. We'll come back to you with a review of A Kingdom for Keflings as soon as we get our Settler's loving mitts on it.

Tantalus announce new studio in Brisbane

PRESSER: Melbourne-based video game developer Tantalus today announced the establishment of a new development studio in Brisbane, Australia. Founded in 1994, Tantalus has shipped in excess of thirty titles across most major platforms. Recent successes include Cars: Mater National, Pony Friends, and the just-released Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, on DS. With 70 developers presently at work in the Melbourne studio on Wii, DS and PSP, CEO Tom Crago said the choice was either to continue growing that operation, or set up a new studio to work in parallel. “I like the idea of capping our Melbourne base at around 80 developers,” said Crago. “We’re on track to grow to that level by next year, and in Brisbane we’ll endeavor to replicate the model that’s been so successful for us down here. In the first instance, the Brisbane studio will work on a DS title, expanding to two teams by the end of next year.” The Brisbane expansion has been overseen by Tantalus COO David Giles. “We’ll be opening our doors in December,” said Giles. “With the help of the Queensland Government we’ve found a terrific location in Kelvin Grove, and feel that the talent pool up there will enable us very quickly to assemble a world class group of developers. In fact, we’ve already made several key hires.” The announcement of the new Tantalus Brisbane studio coincides with commencement of the annual Australian game developers conference, GCAP, which runs in Brisbane from 19-22 November (www.gameconnectap.com)

Mature gamers article - volunteers wanted!

We're knocking together a bit of a Q and A for - shall we say - the more mature gamer. We're looking for people who would be interested in taking part (male or female). Essentially we jet you off an email with questions in it, you respond and tada! It's all good!

We think the Q and A will only take 15 minutes max to answer (unless you really want to go on and on, which you can) and we'd love to hear from you. The only catch is that you're over 35 years of age and have been a gamer for a fair chunk of time.

Drop your name into the comments here (and put your email address in the address field - it wont appear publicly but we'll pick it up in the back end) or contact us (main page top right) and let us know you'd like to take part.

Lips Xbox 360 full track list

After a week plagued with tech difficulties and general nonsense we're back safe and well to the realm we all love... gaming. We've got word of the new "karaoke" title "Lips" by Microsoft having a fairly healthy dose of good songs mixed into its 40 or so track fanfare, so we thought we'd post the full track listing after the jump. Yeah we know, we're a female gaming site and we're posting about a singing game. Trust us, it kills us inside. Just like when we report on titles that have the word "Sims" in them. Such is the job of good journalism that we must keep the punters happy, even those that hug their stereotype like it was a big pink and fluffy security blanket. Full "Lips" tracklist after the jump.

Halo 3 Recon and its female playable hero would save Bungie money

We realize it's a long shot and probably wishful thinking, but we've noticed Bungie playing the gender pronoun game when discussing the new "Halo 3: Recon" game. Interviews are rife with the utter avoidance if anything "he" or "him", which is fairly strange we think. Also things like "Instead of playing a super space marine, however, you'll play an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper (ODST), one who's not quite so burly or bad-ass." are popping up, which may be innocent or it may be a hint.

We're not the only female gamers thinking it either. Could Bungie FINALLY repay all their female gaming fans with a little female Shock Trooper love. From a PR perspective alone it would be genius. Think about it, all the little Halo fanboys would get into a tizzy, leading to literally thousands of forums chat about the game. Female gamers would love it, mature guy gamers would probably take it in their stride and many might think it was about time. The fanboys would still buy the game regardless and the media coverage would be so intense it would basically pay for itself ten fold.

Essentially we're thinking if Bungie made the "new hero" a female Halo hero, people would freak out or fall in love, both of which would lead to a hell of a lot of online and other media coverage they couldn't pay for! As far as PR goes it would actually be pretty shrewd.

LEGO Batman interview with producer Loz Doyle - Takes on female characters and who he'd turn gay for

Our pals over at Lesbian Gamers have got a really cute interview with LEGO Batman producer Loz Doyle. He spills the beans on a hidden female character in the game along with the reasons behind the omission of Batwoman as a character in game and why the online play was dropped in favor of a more family oriented co-op style of play. Along with all these tidbits of information Doyle also talks LEGO Cthuhlu, favorite words and even who he'd turn gay for... the answer to which is a complete hoot.
You can check out the full interview HERE.