Everypony loves Legends of Equestria, and if you don't then this update might just convince you to follow this game more carefully. They show off a ton of new features such as the inventory system, a new flight system, an upgraded Everfree Forest, fireballs, and a visitable Tartarus! Sadly enough there is still no release date in sight, but I'd rather have a well-polished game later then a buggy and unfinished MMO now.

And one more thing. It keeps bothering me in that the game has a very distinct lack of cartoon shading for the ponies, and without it they look rather...ugly in their current, untextured state (no offense). Perhaps they should look into a similar shading system as what PonyKart uses, eh?

Recently we posted about a fangame with the title My Little Miner: Disturbance is Magic that seemed to be centered around digging around for gems in a volcano. The creator said that he was releasing a beta soon, and it turns out that by "soon" he meant 4 four days later. So if you're interested in trying out this Flash/HTML5 fangame then head on over to http://mlm.blitzspace.com/ and give it a play. He also wants feedback on his game's beta so if you have any then send him an email over at BlitzProg@BlitzSpace.com.

Have fun!

This appears to be some kind of trailer for an official 5th Luna Game that was sent to us in an email. Mysterious, eh? Time to speculate!

Recently we have been seeing an increasing number of game remakes with ponies added to them such as Megapony & Silent Ponyville, and continuing the trend comes My Little Miner: Disturbance is Magic which appears to be a remake of the iOS game Miner Disturbance. Pretty much it's centered around digging for gems under a volcano with a pony for a partner and will apparently use either Flash or HTML5 depending on what your browser supports (I prefer the latter). Pretty neat, eh? It'd be really great if we could include this game on the Arcade come release day, but we can't guarantee anything since in the end it is all up to whether the developers want their game included on the Arcade or not.

Our fandom has outputted a decent amount of creepypasta games, but for the longest time there has only been one true horror game and that would be Silent Ponyville. It has been under development for almost a year now and is based off of the well-known fanfic with the same name, and we've decided that it's about time this rather interesting game gets a (brief) post. I've never been a fan of the games whose so-called "horror" consists of trying to disgust players with horrific corpselike monsters, but hopefully Silent Ponyville will focus more on the psychological side of horror then many of its trashy peers.

By the looks of it development should take a couple more months and it is being produced with the Blender Game Engine which means that it should support most desktop platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and even FreeBSD! The game also has a playable demo from December '11 (Windows-only, so I didn't get to play it) that can be accessed over at http://silentponyville.blogspot.ca/p/demo-christmas-special.html in case you desperately give this game a shot, no matter how outdated the build is.

Oh, and did I forget to mention that the game's soundtrack has a Youtube playlist? It contains some great stuff, and I highly recommend listening to if you're interested at all in video game music.

My disdain for generic Pinkie Pie platformers is quite infamous. In my opinion there are simply too many of them around, and it's almost grown to be somewhat of a cliche. Yes, Pinkie Pie may be a natural choice for platformers given her fondness of bouncing, but it would be really nice to have a Fluttershy platformer every once in a while. However just because Pinkie Pie platformers in general are rather lousy doesn't mean they all have to be, and the brilliantly titled Pinkie Pie Platformer promises to be the best of the bunch. It has it all: fun gameplay, great graphics (parallax scrolling!), and music that won't make your ears bleed unless Ghostbusters somehow scarred you as a child. The game is about halfway done at the moment and features a playable beta version for you to enjoy until the final version comes out (which the creator estimates will be in about 4-5 days). Enjoy!

Also is it just me or are playable betas for My Little Pony fangames starting to become somewhat of a trend? It would be great if it is, as I like being able to play a game before the final release and helping report bugs. Do you folks like having playable beta versions?

The "Twilight Sparkle defence shooter" genre may not be as oversaturated as the Pinkie Pie platformers and cloud dodgers, but Penta Studios (those loveable folks who created Waiting is Magic) seems to think otherwise with the announcement of TWALAGHT SPARKUHLZ REVENGSHE. Slated for release on the 10th of August TSR seems to be the joke game at its finest, with absurdly powerful weapons and perhaps the ugliest parasprites we have ever seen. There's almost no doubt that it will be a blast to play when it comes out given its origins, so be sure to check back on the 10th for this awesome game.

And will it cure cancer like Waiting is Magic did? We have no idea, but beta testing has proven that every 1 minute of playtime adds 1 year to your life. Play this game enough and you'll be practically immortal!

Down in the magical land of Seattle some folks decided to create their very own pony-themed arcade Cabinet, and unlike many awesome ideas that never come to fruition (such as my beer cannon that uses beer cans as ammo) they actually went out and created it. Given the games that they showed running on the machine Given the fact that it runs Galaga '88 some might assume that the machine uses a Namco System 1 board, although I suspect that it is really powered by a PC with an emulator program installed. Some of you folks should try making your own Arcade machine sometime; it's actually quite easy if you are familiar with carpentry and have the technical know-how.

After the break you can find three embedded galleries of the cabinet during the production stages. Enjoy!

A while back this one guy put a preview for a Pinkie Pie platformer up on Youtube, which doesn't sound that impressive except for the fact that it was created in RPG Maker of all things. Now he's back, and by the looks of it he's trying to create some kind of shooter in the same engine. If it is ever completed I expect the gameplay to turn out somewhat like a singleplayer version of Realm of the Mad God, although it's rather doubtful that it will ever be released.

Oh yeah, are you interested in playing it? The creator released a playable demo on Dropbox and can be found over at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/77265517/Pony.zip. Perhaps he's appreciate it if you give 'em some feedback in your comments, eh?

I've always wanted ponified remakes of classic videogames, and we don't get them very often (and no, Pony Fantasy 6 doesn't exactly count as it is a mod, not a complete remake). A couple months back a rather interesting game called Megapony was announced that promised to be a MLP Megaman game, and despite my personal opinion that it would never come to fruition a playable beta version has been released. Now I won't lie to you: I am terrible at Megapony but it is great fun and I look forward to the eventual release of the full game so I can review it, and trust me when I say that this game will be getting a very high score from me as it is already one of the best playable fangames out there right now (and way better then PurpleTinker's Quack Quest, which was apparently intended as a trollgame).

Interested in playing Megapony? You can download it over at http://www.mediafire.com/?99hvd3x7sibkv8g. Hope you like it!

Usually over at Equestria Gaming we post fangames, not make them. However Xtux was rather bored a couple nights back so he created a cheap fangame starring PurpleTinker, founder of BroNYCon, as she goes around chasing ducks. Why does the woman like ducks so much? Apparently some stupid people over at Memegenerator tried making a forced Purple Tinker meme but it was hijacked by somepony who turned the PT-hating into jokes about ducks. So there's a lesson for future generations: never make a forced meme unless you want it hijacked by trolls.

Anyway, the game can be played exclusively over at our Arcade. Hope you find it at least somewhat amusing. Night!