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Look Back At A Blaverage 2011

Look Back At A Blaverage 2011

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. You get fat, you get some games, you get time off of work. That’s the fucking trifecta right there. It’s also a time for reflecting. Have you progressed as a human in 2011? Kept to your resolutions?…

Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon – Review

Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon – Review

My mother’s side of the family is Ukrainian and, many years ago, back in the motherland, our family was cursed. The details are sketchy. Knowing us, we probably ran over a gypsy with a horse or some such, but whatever happened, our bloodline was doomed…

EDF: Insect Armageddon Preview and Interview

EDF: Insect Armageddon Preview and Interview

If any game suits PAX East’s offbeat, cult, hyperactive geek persona it is EDF, or Earth Defence Force: Insect Armageddon.  The game’s predecessor, EDF 2017, has become famed for its frenetic and, often, brutally difficult gameplay, and the cheesy, over the top nonsense surrounding the…

EDF: Insect Armageddon Teasers Released!

Ham with a side of cheese would usually only apply to a Shatner/Hasslehoff sandwich, however, in gaming terms, it can only mean one thing: yep, EDF is back. We’ve known the game has been on its way for some time, thanks to new developers, Vicious…

EDF 2017 Arrives on Xbox: GOD

Fans of the cheesy insect-em-up, Earth Defence Force 2017 may be pleased to hear that the game with more ham than William Shatner’s career has now arrived on Xbox Games on Demand.  Available for £14.99, EDF 2017 offers a pretty enticing purchase for those who…

Gaming Guilty Pleasures

Gaming Guilty Pleasures

We’ve all done it. The temptation’s gotten the best of us.  Our hearts are racing, minds on fire, praying you’re not caught, hoping no-one comes into the room, because if they do, you’re caught sweating, panting heavily, clutching the controller then turning away quickly and…

Earth Defence Force 2017

Earth Defence Force 2017

Where are you from, Private? Okinawa!?! Holy shit! Ain’t nothing from Okinawa but steers and queers! This is the Earth Defence Force not whatever version of the Boy Scouts we have here in Japan… um. Right now you are a worthless maggot but when I’m…