Games: Plants Vs Zombies 2

This is the first one, just imagine it like this with more stuff!

Some of you may know what Plants Vs. Zombies is (if not there was an entry about it 3 years ago!). If not...it's a game where you must defend your house (and brain) from wave upon wave of various types of zombies. Instead of using shotguns or treadmills, you must use a range of plants to stop the relentless horde!

Well that was then and this is now (though you can still get the old one!). Popcap, makers of Plants Vs. Zombies have announced they are releasing a sequel, which should rise once more by late spring 2013:

"PopCap Games, maker of some of the world’s most popular video game franchises and a division of EA, today announced that the underground growth of the sequel to Plants vs. Zombies™, one of the world’s most popular video games, is germinating and advancing with rigor.

The sequel to Plants vs. Zombies is expected to launch by late spring 2013, and will include a bevy of new features, settings, and situations, designed to delight the franchise’s tens of millions of fans around the world. No other details of the highly anticipated new installment in the franchise are available at this time, beyond the following comments from some of the game’s denizens.

“Spring is crullest curlie ungood time, and plantz grow dull roots,” noted an unidentified spokesperson. “So, we are meating you for brainz at yore house. No worry to skedule schedlue plan… we're freee anytime. We'll find you.”

“There was a time we relished a bracing, hearty blend of zombies, in the morning,” said Sonny F. Lower, a representative of the Flora Forever Foundation. “But first, a brisk shower and some strategic pruning are required. Tomorrow is near!”" 

Source
Popcap homepage
Plants Vs. Zombies Homepage

Games: Alice: Madness Returns

The long-awaited sequel to the 2000, horror game 'American McGee's Alice', has finally been released! The new game, 'Alice: Madness Returns', comes much to the delight of expectant fans of the original and continues the plot of its predecessor's twisted version of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.  McGee's studio, Spicy Horse, created the game and partnered with EA in order to release it last month.

The sequel takes place directly after the initial story, with Alice now living at an orphanage in Victorian London under the care of a psychiatrist, after having been released from Rutledge Asylum for the Wayward and Lost Souls. However, Alice is still troubled by her splintered memories of the past and when she begins to have hallucinations, she must once again venture into the strange and violent world known as Wonderland. And that is when the bloody fun begins! (I won't give too much away in this post, as a review will be coming at a later date, but I'll include lots of lovely screenshots after the cut, as compensation...and I mean A LOT.)

Whilst you might be thinking "oh, not another Alice-themed plot!", you have to remember that the original game came out nearly 11 years ago, before the current flurry of bizarre / creepy Wonderland re-imaginings existed. Though, of course, I'm not suggesting that it was the only, or even the first, to take Carroll's version of the story and change it into something even weirder and darker than his original. I am, however, suggesting that you shouldn't be put off if you happen to be bored with Wonderland at the moment.

Official Website: Alice: Madness Returns

For the aforementioned screenshots (scenes are from the first 2 chapters only; extra costumes & weapons were unlocked during first play through), click the very image-heavy cut below↓