One of the best-looking and most compelling Wii games to date, Rainbow Studios' "Deadly Creatures" is a survival tale intertwining the lives and deaths of desert-dwelling vermin -- arthropod and human alike.
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games have come a long way towards challenging today's armchair generals, transforming the genre into various contests of resource control, environmental tactics, and intricate unit management. "Space War Commander," a new RTS from Dreamspike Studios, is a game which cuts out the complexity and takes a retro approach, looking and playing like [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Released yesterday via the Xbox Live Marketplace, "Operation: Anchorage" is the first of three downloadable content installments for "Fallout 3." Offering roughly 4 hours of gameplay and 100 potential gamerpoints, is "Operation: Anchorage" worth the 800 MS points ($10 USD)? Two words: ninja suit. [Caution: Mild Spoilers Ahead]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 27, 2009
We've spent the last two weeks exploring Cartoon Network's new MMO, "FusionFall." Curious to see what we thought?
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 27, 2009
When "Fantastic Contraption" debuted as a simple physics-based puzzler via Flash, gamers were hooked. With a simple and approachable interface, the game allowed players to explore vast possibilities through a basic set of rules and parts. Now, the game has been ported to Apple's own fantastic contraption, and is a nearly perfect port of the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 27, 2009
"Niki - Rock 'n' Ball," developed by Bplus, has a bright colorful presentation, simple controls, and quirky theme which makes it a good fit for the family-friendly WiiWare lineup. It also has frustrating gameplay, inconsistent and flighty physics, and a jarring difficulty curve which keeps it from being very enjoyable.
Continue reading...Saturday, January 24, 2009
With a new, greater emphasis on reviews, GameCyte intends to cover a high volume of new releases each week. Each Saturday we'll post a "Week in Review" -- a run down of the week's reviews, in case you missed something.
Continue reading...Friday, January 23, 2009
Some strategy games derive their challenge from their broad features, allowing one to craft a master plan involving dozens of different units and unique abilities. Others take the opposite approach, like Inventive Dingo's "Mayhem Intergalactic," a game which has only two possible moves yet dozens of potential strategies.
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
Though hidden-object games are plentiful on the PC, they've recently branched out to other platforms, including XBLA and the DS. Now, with "The Stone of Destiny," you can test your visual acuity on the iPhone, and find that the mobile device makes a surprisingly good medium for the genre -- even if "Stone" itself has [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
One nice thing about the iPhone App Store is that, thanks to a high volume of new software and the frequent use of lower "introductory" prices, mobile gamers can try a lot of interesting new titles for very little money. Of course, on occasion, you get what you pay for, as is the case with [...]
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
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