The Search for Tobin Frost is the official movie tie-in to Safe House, the Denzel Washington/Ryan Reynolds intelligence thriller written by directed by Daniel Espinoza. The goal is to track down rogue CIA agent Tobin Frost, who has apparently betrayed his country and spilled secrets to various organizations and nations that want to do not-so-nice things to America.
Captain America: The First Avenger hit theaters this week, garnering very positive reviews. To help build hype for the movie, Marvel released a Web-based flash game, Captain America: Shield of Justice, which adopts many of the cutesy, 16-bit stylistic elements found in Thor: Bring the Thunder. The game, however, feels very much like a Mega Man rehash that subs the Blue Bomber with a badly animated Captain America sprite.
The horribly named Thor: Bring the Thunder, the promotional tie-in for Marvel’s big screen adaptation of its own Norse god comic, hit the Web this week. The Flash-based 2D game, which is free to play at Marvel’s site, puts you in control of the hammer-toter as you attempt to rescue a kidnapped maiden. The plot and gameplay are bare-bones–it is a Flash game, after all–but the retro music and visuals may prove enticing to those with an affinity for sprite-based video games.
Canabalt may be a simple 2D flash game, but it’s one of the best titles of this generation.
Every bit as fast as its 3D big brother, this 2D take of the popular PC title is just as fun.
This is the best 8-bit video game adaptation of a 2010 movie based on ’80s action movies we’ve ever played. Repurposed for your pleasure!
Adult Swim’s Robot Unicorn Attack will make you believe in rainbows, stars, dolphins, and, of course, robot unicorn. And you’ll like it.
Super Mario Bros. Crossover is a free flash game that is the quintessential wet dream of all old-school Nintendo fans.
TimeWasters highlights many of the excellent Web-based/lightweight downloadable titles that you can dive into within the space of a lunch break. This week, Chris Gampat explores Enough Plumbers.
For those of you that like Dante’s Inferno, think of Go To Hell as its prelude (if it were set in modern times and your hero looked vaguely like Carrottop).
