Happy Birthday, Jeff!
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Posted on December 10th, 2010 by
Yesterday, December 9, was one of my little brother’s, Jeff’s 18th birthday! (Wow, they grow up so fast.) And right on time, thanks to Nintendo and a good friend of mine (thanks, buddy, you know who you are), I got a Wii Party prize package in the mail yesterday, right on his birthday! So, when his friends came over to celebrate, I had each one of them tell me in a sentence why they like Wii Party.
Free Game! Doritos Crash Course (Xbox LIVE)
Posted on December 9th, 2010 by
Doritos has done a lot of promotions with Xbox LIVE, and one of those are contests where game makers can submit their homegrown titles to win a chance to be featured on the Xbox 360. Best of all, the winner’s game is free to play by all! Such is the case with the newest contest winner, Doritos Crash Course.
Game Review: Marvel Pinball (Xbox LIVE)
Posted on December 8th, 2010 by
Pinball FX 2 is about to get super powers! Starting today, you can download four new tables on Xbox LIVE, and each one is based on a popular Marvel Comics superhero! Keep in mind that in order to play these, you’ll need to download Pinball FX 2. But don’t worry, FX 2 itself is free. Once you download the hub, you can purchase whatever tables you want.
Game Review: Intellivision Lives! (DS)
Posted on December 7th, 2010 by
Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s, the Atari 2600 was king of the consoles. But just like today, there was competition back then, too. One of the competing game consoles was the Intellivision, featuring better graphics, more complex games and controls, and even voice samples. I never had an Intellivision as a kid, so I don’t have too many special memories about it. However, my cousins owned one, so I would get to play it when we would visit them in Alabama for Christmas. I remember playing Frog Bog with my cousin Jana for an entire afternoon! Now you can enjoy Frog Bog and more than 60 other classic games with Intellivision Lives! for the Nintendo DS.
Game Review: Nail’d (360, PS3)
Posted on December 5th, 2010 by
Nail’d is a fast-paced, over the top off-road racer featuring 4-wheelers and motorcycles (360 version reviewed here). In Tournament Mode, the main part of the game, race in different events to unlock more and try to make it to the Nail’d Grand Finale. Most events require you place in a race, but others challenge you to get the highest score by doing tricks, or by tweaking other rules by giving you endless boost. Races start out easy but get more challenging later on.
Celebrate Pac-Man’s 30th Anniversary This Holiday Season!
Posted on December 4th, 2010 by
2010 is almost to an end, which also means an end to Pac-Man’s 30th Anniversary year. So what’s the best way to celebrate the occasion one last time? Play Pac-Man games, of course! There’s a bunch of new Pac-Man games that just came out in the past month or so, so let’s take a look and find out which ones are tops and which ones are party poopers!
Game Review: Cars Toon: Mater’s Tall Tales
Posted on December 3rd, 2010 by
As the father of a preschool boy, I’ve seen the movie Cars far more times than I can count. When I heard about the release of a Wii game based on the new video, Mater’s Tall Tales, I was interested enough to want to check the game out. Mater’s Tall Tales is a set of minigames based around sequences from the video of the same name. While some are entertaining, and the visuals truly are top-notch, the gameplay of the 30-odd minigames fails to stand out from the very crowded minigame genre on the Wii console.
Game Review: Spelunker HD (PS3)
Posted on December 3rd, 2010 by
Spelunker was an 8-bit NES game where you explore a 2-D cave and gather treasure. Along the way you would climb ladders and jump over obstacles and avoid enemies like bats, snakes, and ghosts. It was a lot like Donkey Kong or Pitfall, really. Spelunker wasn’t too popular in the US, but it gained fame in Japan for some strange reason. Probably because it came out right when the Famicom was tops. Spelunker is also known for being incredibly hard. One hit by anything and you die, even if you fall from a height bigger than your jump. Now you can enjoy dying over and over again in a whole new way with Spelunker HD, a downloadable PSN title for PS3.
Game Review: Bronze (Win PC)
Posted on December 2nd, 2010 by
Shrapnel Games has a reputation for publishing high quality historical wargames (WWII versions of Steel Panthers, among others) as well as a smattering of other strategic titles (Dominions 3, Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space). One of their most recent releases is a downloadable game entitled Bronze, a strategy title set in ancient Mesopotamia. With simple rules and goals based around placing tiles for area control, it plays much like an abstract boardgame. With numerous campaign modes, flavor text full of historical facts, and the ability to play solo or hotseat multiplayer in randomly generated maps, Bronze shows surprising depth for it simple rules. There is something gripping about its simplicity that draws you in and leaves you wanting to play “just one more” five or ten minute game.
Game Review: Rune Factory 3 (DS)
Posted on December 1st, 2010 by
The Harvest Moon series of farming simulation console games have made many improvements and additions over the past several years, but the basic gameplay idea has always been the same. Grow crops and raise farm animals for money, and make friends in the nearby town and possibly marry and start a family. But something always seemed amiss: action packed battles! Luckily, the Rune Factory series covers that, and now you can enjoy the newest with Rune Factory 3 for DS.
