Another week, another casual title slides across our desk, onto our screens and, eventually, into your hands. It’d be hard for us to call this week’s game any word even resembling casual. Our first instinct with Rock Solid Arcade’s shooter cum action-rpg Robokill: Titan Prime would be to call it a Smash TV clone — and that’d be woefully incorrect also.

Combining the room-to-room dungeon style of top down games like Smash TV with the addictive leveling up qualities found in games like God of War and even WoW, Robokill packs a lot into it’s online-only package. Oh, hey, did we mention it’s free?

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Alright, so it’s been a slow week here at QPHQ, we’ll admit it. If there’s anyone to blame, it’s those bastards at Bizarre Creations and their newest amphetimine game, Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2. We’ve been spending so much time playing Geo 2 that we barely had a chance to take down Master D’s forces a notch or two in Bionic Commando: Rearmed, though you should expect a review by Tuesday at the latest.  So how’s about we get to the podcast roundup extra late this week and kick you down with the videogame jams you’ve been so anxiously waiting for?

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The best thing to do when you should be doing other, more important things is, of course, dick around online and find random time-wasting flash games. Like my newly-discovered (thanks to Wonderland) little 5-minute obsession, Coign of Vantage. It’s easier if you just go to the site and play it for yourself than for me to try and explain it here — promise.

The premise for this new DS game from Ignition Entertainment is you control a tornado that sweeps up everything in its path. But, of course, you have to gobble up the smaller stuff before taking on the big fish. Sound like something you’ve played before? Not only is the gameplay strikingly similar (Since when can a tornado dash?) but the plot of the game is that you are on Planet 69 taking back the stuff that the “Prince” stole from earth. Not joking here. Check out the trailers on the official website.

QP tries not to Digg stuff that’s already been dugg, because then the site would just look like, well, Digg and be filled with idiotic Digg stuff that’s already been dugg, because then the site would just look like, well, Digg and be filled with idiotic lists and speculation. But this semi-list was too good to pass up.

Gamesradar has a post about the codenames for most of the major consoles, from Atari 2600 (Stella) to Wii (Nintendo Revolution). Our favorite? N64 was codenamed Project Reality. Rightly so, considering how real the Golden Gun looked in our 64-bit hand.

Should we be concerned? Overlord II is apparently heading to the Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2009… which isn’t so much of a shock. What is shocking is that publisher Codemasters anounced today that they’d be not only shipping Overlord II but also “Overlord: Dark Legend for Wii, featuring minion control through Wii Remote movement” and “Overlord: Minions, a dedicated puzzle action title, for Nintendo DS.” While we admittedly haven’t exactly sunk hours into the original Overlord, we here at QP were certainly taken aback to find out Codemasters believes in “the Overlord franchise” enough to span them across so many consoles. (It probably doesn’t hurt that Nintendo is the current market leader, no?) How about you, dearest reader? Was the original Overlord exciting enough for a sequel, none the less alternate iterations? For the full press release, hit the break.

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We like this week’s Casual Monday, Ragdoll Masters, for a whole slew of reasons, none of those being its abilities as a fighting game. While the games creators would have you believe “In this game you control a stylized martial arts master, making his way through stronger and stronger opponents with spectacular moves and impressive blows.”, we know the truth: ragdoll physics in this game result in sloppy controls. Which, oddly, works out for the better — and something they shout tout!

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Move over World of Warcraft… Here comes World of International Politics!  If you don’t know you better ask somebody… okay, we’ll tell you. Geo-Political Simulator is a sim of the Earth as we know it today, crazy North Koreans and everything. Manage your country and its status in the international community!
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Normally we don’t spend all our time with Xbox 360 employing its hard drive, playing Xbox Live Arcade games, but this month we’re making serious exception. Maybe you missed us last week when we told you about the Summer’s End XBLA blowout taking place, dubbed the “Summer of Arcade“? Either way, our weekend will assuredly be filled with terrifying geometric shapes and time-reversal gameplay (with reviews of both coming early next week) — how about you? In case you can’t handle the “steep” price for Braid, there are always a mountain of podcasts to check out.

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Everybody has been talking about Brett Favre’s AARP-discounted direct flight from Green Bay to New York City. Unfortunately, EA didn’t get the memo. Their Madden 2009 cover will feature old-man Favre in his Packers jersey. Details on the planned update (and curse) after the jump.

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