Hello there Circle. We’ve missed you for the past couple of weeks while you were busy cooking up your next work of plagiarism… uh, homage to another developer. Or not. It saddens me that developers and publishers get away with this, because Kairosoft, the developers behind the wonderful Game Dev…
Read MoreBack when the Nintendo DS was riding high and the iPhone and iPad were relatively minor blips on the home entertainment radar, Nintendo’s touch screen console saw a fair few releases that were not really games but rather what would later be known as “apps.” Art Academy was one of…
Read MoreThe 1998 GameBoy incarnation of Mystical ninja posts to the eShop’s Virtual Console this week along with a solid looking new title with Fractured Souls. How long has it been since there’s been a new Mystical Ninja game anyway? Aside from a few mobile titles and a DS game that…
Read MorePicross is a little like Sudoku – you can make it prettier and offer a fresh range of puzzles with each new release, but at the end of the day you’re still selling your customers the same old game. As it is with Picross E – a fine package with gorgeous…
Read MoreThe original (tough as nails) Prince of Persia comes to the Wii Virtual Console this week. You know what else in the eShop this week? Insanity, my friend, complete insanity. If you’ve never played PoP, and I mean the original PoP from years ago, then you might want to give…
Read MoreWhat? You heard this one already? That’s doubtful considering this is one of the stranger assortments of games to have appeared on the eShop in a while. The headline game this week is Speed X 3D, a futuristic racer where you careen through the deepest recesses of the final frontier, all…
Read MoreLevel-5 has announced that the sixth game in the series, Professor Layton & the Remains of an Advanced Civilization, will be releasing in Japan in 2013. Not much has been revealed about the storyline yet, though it is thought to be set one year after the events of the last…
Read MoreThe best part of New Super Mario Bros. 2 is the opening scene the first time you turn it on to play. Suddenly the realisation hits: you’re about to play an entirely new 2D Mario game. Those memories of childhood come flooding back, and though the graphic style is looking…
Read MoreUFO Interactive’s Balloon Pop Remix is set to bubble up onto the 3DS in early September. One of those ‘simple’ games that actually turns out to be anything but; Balloon Pop Remix brings balloons, puzzles, and a cute lil’ alien to the eShop on September 6th. Designed and developed internally…
Read MoreIn a stark contrast to the glut of games that’ve been appearing lately, only three titles posted to Nintendo’s various download services this week. Making up for the sheer lack of stuff? Vectors. Vector Racing for the 3DS looks like it might be a pretty fun (if simple) time. The…
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