Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Cary Woodham
Arcade game maker SNK is best known for its 2-D one-on-one fighters. And now you can enjoy one of their longest running fighting game series with The King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga for the PS2, PSP, and Wii. This collection contains five KOF games: KOF 94-98, along with special challenges and unlockable bonus material.
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Tags: Game Reviews, Misc
Posted on November 9th, 2008 by Cary Woodham
In the peaceful land of Ninjatown lives a band of cute yet honorable ninjas. But one day, a horde of wee devils from the forest came to steal Ninjatown’s secret ninja cookie recipe. Can you help Ol’ Master Ninja lead his ninja troops and defend Ninjatown’s honor? Ninjatown is a real-time strategy (RTS) game. Normally I HATE these kinds of games. Maybe it’s the cute characters or the easy to understand gameplay, but Ninjatown has won me over. How good is Ninjatown if it converted an RTS hater like myself? Read on to find out:
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Posted on November 8th, 2008 by Cary Woodham
In the land of Malaria, evil scientists from all over come together once a year to compete in the Evil Science Fair. But behind each evil scientist is a hunchbacked Igor to pull the switch. But one Igor has a dream to be an evil scientist himself. In Igor: The Game, based on the recent animated movie, play as Igor as he overcomes all odds to enter the Evil Science Fair. The Igor game for the Wii is a typical movie-based 3-D platformer, but the DS version is, surprisingly, a puzzle game!
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Posted on November 8th, 2008 by Cary Woodham
Welcome all, to the Namco Museum! We all have dream jobs that will probably never come to fruition because those jobs may be too far away from reality. Well I have one such dream job. I’d like to be a curator and tour guide of the Namco Museum! Too bad there’s no such thing as a REAL Namco Museum, huh? But hey, this is MY blog and I can do whatever I want, so today I’d like to take you all on a tour of the newest edition to the Namco Museum series: Namco Museum Virtual Arcade for the Xbox 360! And we’re walking, we’re walking…
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Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by Cary Woodham
I decided to take a different approach to reviewing Wii Music and just ramble about it. While a bad E3 demo and toy-like gameplay have plagued Wii Music’s reputation, the former band geek in me still wanted to try it. And plus, despite what they all said, I still had fun with it at PAX. So how is it? Read on to find out:
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Posted on October 26th, 2008 by Cary Woodham
When Halloween approaches, people tend to start talking about scary video games. So I’m going to talk about a video game that has the scariest creatures on Earth! Women! Just joking! Just joking! Women aren’t scary! Some of the nicest people I know are women. But the real scary question is “WHY on Earth would Cary play such a game?” That’s not normally the kind of games I usually play. So read on to find out why, and stick around for a silly review of it, plus a TRULY scary game!
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Tags: Misc
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Cary Woodham
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 to take on the Nintendo Wii with all six hilarious episodes of their Season One adventures from the PC.
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Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Cary Woodham
Natsume’s popular farming simulation series of games, Harvest Moon, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year (has it really been around that long?). And so in honor of such a bountiful harvest, Natsume is cultivating Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility for the Nintendo Wii. Is the newest addition a bumper crop or a dust bowl? Read on to find out:
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Cary Woodham
At some point, most little girls dream of becoming a princess, wearing fabulous gowns and dancing at the royal ball. And now they can with Princess Debut, a music/rhythm dancing game on the Nintendo DS.
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Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Cary Woodham
Hamtaro and his hamster friends are ready to play! Your youngest Nintendo DS gamers won’t even realize they’re learning basic math, memorization, and comprehension skills as they have fun with a dozen mini-games starring Hamtaro and his pals.
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Arcade game maker SNK is best known for its 2-D one-on-one fighters. And now you can enjoy one of their longest running fighting game series with The King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga for the PS2, PSP, and Wii. This collection contains five KOF games: KOF 94-98, along with special challenges and unlockable bonus material.
