At CES, we got a good look at "Free Realms," a new kid-friendly MMORPG from Sony Online Entertainment. It's set in a lavish, colorful world filled with pixies, trolls and the usual cast of mythical characters. What sets it apart from other kid-friendly games is tongue-in-cheek humor that's amusing to adults: Players can expect, for [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 14, 2008
The latest Famitsu updates have some pretty interesting media and information about Yakuza 3, the hotly anticipated PlayStation 3 exclusive by SEGA and their Amusement Vision studio. We can view some of the gorgeous environments of the game's two cities and other, ahem, impressive assets. We also get a look at some of the game's [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
In their 2008 MediaWise Video Game Report Card, the National Institute for Media and the Family included a fairly extensive list of games to avoid buying your children this holiday season, including such grotesque, gore-filled titles as Silent Hill: Homecoming and Gears of War 2. This was all well and good -- we wouldn't advocate [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Hudson Entertainment was showing something of a trend at last week's Gamers' Day event. Of all the games on display, nearly all of them were for the Wii, and as our discussion with Hudson's Mike Pepe demonstrated, the "casual" and "family-friendly" flags were flying high. When the Wii intersects with casual, signs frequently point to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 11, 2008
At last week's Gamers' Day event, Hudson Entertainment showed us quite a few games which would represent new entries in some of their most cherished franchises. It wasn't all sequels and remakes, though; Hudson had a few original titles to share with the world as well. One such title was Help Wanted, a new collection [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 13, 2008
We previewed Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars about a month ago, and we rather enjoyed our time with the game. Psyonix Studios' first independently published, PlayStation Network-exclusive, UE3 and PhysX-powered game has a title with far too many syllables and words, but it's also extremely descriptive. Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars (henceforth "SARPBC") is a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Think of it. The brain of a dead man waiting to live again in a body I made with my own hands! Now I know what it feels like to be God! Okay, so, maybe Monster Lab isn't quite so fraught with moral dilemmas as your standard mad science story. We can still have a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Here's a fun experiment you can do at home! Go to Google and search for Arkanoid. You should see some five-dozen free online flash games, each one implementing one or two new wrinkles into the classic brickout-with-powerups archetype. Now, open each one of those games in a new tab, and attempt to play every one [...]
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