Impressions by Brad L. Captain Toad returns to the Wii U in a follow up to what was probably the most refreshing aspect of Super Mario 3D World. I recently got an opportunity for some hands-on at the EB Games Expo, and I walked away feeling exactly the same about…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. The launch of the New Nintendo 3DS is later this week – in Japan anyway – and it would seem Nintendo is revving up the handheld with a firmware update in preparation. The ninth major iteration of the operating system marks Nintendo’s foray into paid, customisable…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. When Nintendo revealed the New Nintendo 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS XL in late August, the Japanese launch date reared its head just as hastily. Nintendo’s European and American branches have been comparatively shy about sharing the planned launch of the new systems, though, offering little…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Nintendo’s use of the Pokemon franchise to shift handhelds may be transparent, but these limited edition models of the Nintendo 2DS are even more so. Sporting red and blue colour schemes (or ruby and sapphire if you’re so disposed), these new units are arguably the most…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Nintendo recently released a limited number of codes to try out its upcoming Smash Bros. game on the Nintendo 3DS. We were fortunate to be able to test out the game, so we thought it would be worth doing a brief write-up about it. First things…
Read MoreReview by Jim S. If you’re a fan of Star Fox then Thorium Wars: Attack of the Skyfighter may be initially interesting to you, just by looking at its profile on the Nintendo eShop. This is a sequel to a DSiWare game called Thorium Wars (surprised?). It’s a space shooter…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Scheduled for release in Japan on the 27th of September with, sadly, no European or American release confirmed, Fatal Frame 5/ Project Zero looks to utilize the Wii U GamePad in the most intuitive fashion yet – as a real world camera that will surely inspire…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. “Just one more dig!” was a common sentence I uttered during my time with SteamWorld Dig. Not since Diablo II have I played a game that caused me to stay up longer than I’m accustomed to, just for the sheer fact that I was completely hooked…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Cubemen 2 is one of the finest examples of the tower defence genre. Previously released on iOS and PC, it’s developed into something massive over the months and years courtesy of community-created levels, and now on the Wii U players access all that content in the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. A good bullet hell game is almost like an intricate, difficult and deadly dance. With thousands of projectiles on screen at once and giant, menacing enemies, the player relies on pixel-perfect twitch reactions and foresight to be able to dart in and out of tiny “safe…
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