Science Papa Gets Flack Over Blatant Rip-Off…

and I say, “Who cares?” As some of you may recall, I spent an entire post ranting about the lack of quality mini-games for girls. And yes, I know that Science Papa is not aimed specifically at girl gamers, but with a name so eerily similar to the hit Cooking Mama, I’m sure a few [...]

Square Releases Spanking New Final Fantasy Trailer

Is there no gaming genre that developers WON’T shoe horn Hitler into? I mean, I know he’s the embodiment of evil but when he’s using swords and steampunk aircraft to destroy a replica of the Space Needle on top of a city behind the Great Wall of China…that’s a stretch. Oh wait, it’s the new [...]

Konami Wants Us To “Flick & Rub” Them

From the company that brought you Saw: The Game, Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid 4 and the Silent Hill series (along with Elebits and DDR) comes a new IP for the Nintendo DS. WireWay According to a press release yesterday…(BOLD added for hilarity) Delivering a whole new type of gameplay to the DS, WireWay is an [...]

WTF Product:Company To End Nintendo Blowjobs

Hey, remember how to fix any non-working NES? Barring the Wii and the Gamecube anyway. So any cartridge based NES. Yeah, you blow in it. Now, IGN has a hilarious blog entry about the “types” of blowers out there, and you can find numerous debates about whether getting human spit on the contact points is [...]

Atlus Holds “Steal Princess” Hostage

Really, really long ago, there was an evil Demon King. He was evil. Really, really evil. And he did a lot of really, really evil things to a lot of people who didn’t deserve it. But then the Hero appeared. (Applause!) He defeated the evil Demon King, and everything was good. Really, really good. But [...]

Discovering Mobile Gaming

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m out of the loop. But the last time I had a phone that could play games, I was moving a pixilated snake around the screen to eat dots. I’ve been living in the darks ages of “need to eat” instead of “spiffy phone” for too long. But no more! I’ve thrown [...]

DSi To Hit American Shores This April

By now, everyone and their mother knows that Nintendo finally revealed a release date and price point for the Nintendo DSi. In case you happened to be not in the internet for the last few days, it’s coming April 5th for $169.99. It will be available in black or blindingly bright blue. Bloggers and fans [...]

Nintendo Dominates December Sales

Numbers released this month by the NPD place Nintendo as the clear cut winner in December game sales. Six out of the top ten belong to them.  Five for the company’s Wii and one for the handheld DS. Microsoft came in second with three titles in the top ten and Sony trailed behind with only [...]

Bomberman 2 Release Date Announced

On January 7th, Konami announced the release date for the latest game in the Bomberman series. Bomberman 2 will ship on February 13th, 2009 on the Nintendo DS. Though a veteran character for the system, the new game returns to Bomberman’s roots in a way not seen since his DS debut in 2005. While Bomberman [...]

Valentine’s Day Massacre

In honor of Valentine’s Day (yes it’s super early but the newspaper I work for wanted the article by the 15th so nyah), my article today was going to focus on the romantic relationships of classic video game couples. Mario and Peach. Link and Zelda. You get the idea. But as my research spiraled out [...]