What do you get when you combine the classic action-puzzler Pipe Dream with the popular metropolis construction SimCity series? You get City Builder, of course! It’s a new puzzle game for Nintendo Wii.
PSP Minis are small games you can download on your PlayStation Portable. Supermarket Mania is a PSP Mini game that should please fans of other casual-styled time management challenges like Diner Dash. Keep your customers happy with well-stocked shelves and clean aisles as you run your very own grocery store!
Split/Second is a new explosive (literally) arcade racer for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 (360 version reviewed here). Play as a contestant on a new racing reality TV show. The makers of the program have designed a whole city just for racing—and explosions! Not only must you compete with the fastest cars, but you must also avoid treacherous obstacles and fiery blasts at a moment’s notice.
Well I imagine most Nintendo fans are now or soon to be knee-deep in the new Super Mario Galaxy 2 game. So in honor of all that, here’s a blog about my favorite Mario games and other fun Mario moments.
The Bit.Trip series of WiiWare games feature a few common themes. They’re rhythm based and have a retro look and feel. The music in the Bit.Trip game are ‘chiptunes,’ which are 8-bit sounding electronic songs written by modern day artists. Past games in the series also had old-school gameplay ideas, like ball and paddle or classic shooter elements. And the newest game in the series introduces 2-D platform jumping to the mix!
When visiting Google.com to do an Internet search, have you ever noticed that sometimes they have a different logo, usually to commemorate some kind of special event? Well, today their logo looks like the Pac-Man maze because this year marks Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary! But that’s not all! If you wait for a few seconds, you can actually PLAY Pac-Man right there on Google!
Sam & Max aren’t your regular police force…they’re the Freelance Police. Sam is a no-nonsense dog detective and his pal Max is a hyperkinetic rabbity thing. For more than 20 years they’ve been serving their brand of justice on the pages of underground comic books, on a Saturday morning cartoon, and in some popular computer adventure games. Now they’re ready for their third season of crazy madcap episodic point and click adventures! (PC version reviewed here)
Armored Core: Last Raven is a PlayStation 2 classic in the long-running robot mech battle series. Now you can play it on the go with the PSP via the PSN store. But does it hold up well on the portable handheld game system? Read on to find out.
Chess Challenge is a downloadable game for WiiWare and DSiWare (WiiWare version reviewed here). As the title suggests, you can challenge computer players in Novice, Intermediate, and Expert skill levels. You can also play against another human player on the same Wii, but the biggest selling point is all the many ways you can play chess online.
If you’ve ever wanted to be in a fighting game, now’s your chance! Photo Dojo for DSi lets you take pictures of yourself and friends in various fighting poses for use in a simplistic beat-em-up. Best of all, if you have a DSi and can connect wirelessly to the Internet, you can download Photo Dojo for free up until the beginning of June! After that it’ll go up to 200 points, but that’s still not a bad price to pay for one of the best uses of the DSi camera.
