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 [...]

Imagine: A Rant

Every now and then, when my daughter (who is four) is happily shooting mutants with her older brother or using Princess Peach to smack down Kirby and the Ice Climbers (because Peach is wearing a pink dress and therefore that makes her the best character ever…duh) I sometimes wonder if maybe she shouldn’t be. After [...]

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 [...]

Nintendo Tries Jedi Mind Trick

You know Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime, seems like a pretty okay guy. After all, what other higher up in any company would allow themselves to be put on a t-shirt? But every now and then  he says or does something that reminds me that no matter how cool video game executives may seem, [...]

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 [...]

Square Enix Has Gone Country…

…or at least that’s what the first half of their new game trailer had ME believing. (Sorry about the poor quality but other than their Website, Square hasn’t released the trailer officially as far as I could tell) Of course, about halfway through the trailer for Final Fantasy: The Crystal Bearers (CB), the music and [...]

House of the Dead: Overkill

For me, the House of the Dead series has always been judged by its own set of standards. Being a rail shooter of dubious plot and even worse character development, it would be unfair in my mind to compare it to juggernauts Resident Evil or Silent Hill. But coupling zombies that fall from the sky [...]

Nintendo Announcements at GDC

Earlier today, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata took the stage at the Game Developer Conference to talk about what the company has in store for 2009. Nintendo DSi As I stated in an earlier post, the Nintendo DSi is set to hit American shelves on Sunday April 5th. Having already sold over 2 million units in [...]

10 million strong…and growing

Nintendo announced in a press release on March 19th that their game, Wii Play, had surpassed 10 million units in the United States alone. This makes Wii Play the top selling game of the current console war. However, it still has a ways to go to catch up to Nintendo’s biggest moneymakers; Wii Sports and [...]

Undead Invade Industry Undetected

The zombies are coming! The zombies are coming! Err wait, they’re already here…and no one seems to mind. Awesome. At least this is the only logical conclusion I can come to. In the last year the game industry has been literally overrun with zombie games, ranging from gory to silly to thought provoking. Don’t believe [...]