Monster Hunter has a huge following in Japan, and Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS is shaping up to look really good. Currently the only release date announced is for September 14th of this fall in Japan, but if ever there was a Capcom title that was a candidate…
Read MoreI loved Strider on the NES when I was younger. It fell just behind Bionic Commando and Mega Man 2 as one of my favourite Capcom titles. Well, Strider is coming back in the first part of 2014, courtesy of Capcom and Double Helix Games. The story will follow Hiryu…
Read MoreCapcom took a chance and created a new IP in Dragon’s Dogma, which turned out to be very successful for the company despite a wide range of critical opinions. I personally enjoyed the game a good deal, and am looking forward to seeing what they do with the series going…
Read MoreMonster Hunter has a huge following everywhere, but particularly in Japan. Monster Hunter 4 is set to release on the Nintendo 3DS September 14th of this year in Japan. It’s been a while since there has been a genuinely new Monster Hunter game; for some time now Capcom has been…
Read MoreI like to joke about how many Capcom fighting games eventually come out with a seventeenth Super Duper Spiffy Supreme version, iterating upon itself every few months. The fact of the matter is, Capcom usually does an excellent job with these updates in adding new characters, stages and balancing the…
Read MoreWhat do you get when you mix in a little bit of everything to a tactics strategy game? In the case of Project X Zone, what you get is moments of humorous dialogue sprinkled into a ridiculously thrown together story. And that makes for a fun game that is definitely…
Read MoreThe majority of the adventure genre is fittingly moulded around exploration. The most common approach to “exploring” in retro gaming was to utilise trial and error puzzles with ambiguous solutions rather than teach the player intuitively so that the length of the experience could be drawn out. The former approach…
Read MoreI don’t think this will be news to anyone who has read my reviews of Resident Evil before (hint, hint), I’m a big fan of the series. Resident Evil: Revelations was originally released on the Nintendo 3DS last year and now it’s back and ready to scare once more. The…
Read MoreLast week a demo popped on to the 3DS eShop download store for Project X Zone. Useless name aside, this is a game worth paying attention to because it perfectly demonstrates the value of the clever application of characters in building a compelling game experience. We’ve seen character crossovers before…
Read MoreMonster Hunter 4 has a ridiculously big following, especially in Japan where this title will release later this summer. Early screenshots look bright and colorful, though the true test of the visuals with any of the Nintendo 3DS games is how it looks in action. Here is hoping Capcom’s upcoming…
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