As gamers we are now well familiar with the use of violence in games – as a plot device, as an artistic tool, and even as a bit of good, old-fashioned fun. There are games that heroise violence, games that criticise it, and games that question the use of violence…
Read MoreYes friends, Kid Icarus 3D finally arrives in all it’s ‘enhanced’ 3D this week. Good thing too, ’cause there isn’t too much else fit for an Olympian. Another weak group of additions to Nintendo’s download service this week is very easily headlined by the classic Kid Icarus repainted in 3D.…
Read MoreYes friends, Kid Icarus 3D finally arrives in all it’s ‘enhanced’ 3D this week. Good thing too, ’cause there isn’t too much else fit for an Olympian. Another weak group of additions to Nintendo’s download service this week is very easily headlined by the classic Kid Icarus repainted in 3D.…
Read MoreNintendo’s little pink puffball has been pretty busy of late, across both Wii and DS. And now he’s flying in on a star to try and save the struggling eShop platform. It’s perhaps his toughest mission to date. For all the promise, the 3D remakes of classic games (creatively called…
Read MoreNintendo’s little pink puffball has been pretty busy of late, across both Wii and DS. And now he’s flying in on a star to try and save the struggling eShop platform. It’s perhaps his toughest mission to date. For all the promise, the 3D remakes of classic games (creatively called…
Read MoreFinally. It took some waiting, but Nintendo and the eShop has finally thrown up a 3D Classics game worth paying for. Twinbee is by no means a work of art, but unlike the other vertically scrolling shooter, Xevious, which had the same 3D treatment earlier this year, this one is…
Read MoreFinally. It took some waiting, but Nintendo and the eShop has finally thrown up a 3D Classics game worth paying for. Twinbee is by no means a work of art, but unlike the other vertically scrolling shooter, Xevious, which had the same 3D treatment earlier this year, this one is…
Read MoreWhat happens in Fight Club, stays in Fight Club. It’s a pity for the publisher that Urban Champion wasn’t able to effect that rule on the people that play it, because if it could, this review won’t exist to (hopefully) dissuade people from buying the game. It really is terrible.…
Read MoreWhat happens in Fight Club, stays in Fight Club. It’s a pity for the publisher that Urban Champion wasn’t able to effect that rule on the people that play it, because if it could, this review won’t exist to (hopefully) dissuade people from buying the game. It really is terrible.…
Read MoreThe next title in Nintendo’s line of enhanced ports has been unveiled today through the company’s Japanese website: Twinbee. Originally released to arcades in 1985 by Konami, it was ported to Nintendo’s Family Computer a year later. It’s a two-player shooter or “shoot-’em-up”, similar in nature to Xevious. So far,…
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