Imagine this: You’re a turtle, moving through an empty, white world filled with coloured blocks. If you can wrap your head around that, you’ve arrived at the dullest eShop game to date: SpeedX 3D. Whatever regulatory body that looks over advertising in the games industry should rap developer, Gamelion, over…
Read MoreI’ve been playing around with Apple’s AirPlay feature via iPad and Apple TV, and it really does surprise me that more isn’t made of this feature. Put the two of them together and you get a console-quality experience, which you’re then able to pick up and seamlessly take on the…
Read MoreThe Game Boy, and later Game Boy Color, had a fine heritage in puzzle gaming. From the obvious (Tetris), to the most niche games possible (Catrap), there really was a puzzle game to suit any player on Nintendo’s classic handhelds. Toki Tori is the most recent classic puzzler to hit…
Read MoreThe concept that Ace Mathician is built upon is far more complex and creative than the game itself. Considering how clever that concept is and how fun the game is anyway, that’s just fine. The basic premise of the $2 DSiWare download is this: there’s a koala named Ace, and…
Read MoreNo one should ever, ever be forced to play a game as bad as Decathlon 2012. I consider myself to be a casual fan of the Olympics, so a lack of enthusiasm for the worldwide spectacle which this game was obviously released to take advantage of isn’t to blame. It’s…
Read MoreNintendo is a big corporation that is usually run intelligently. At a time where the world economy (and Japan more than most) is diving better than the Chinese Olympic team can Nintendo has held things together and not suffered too badly. But that’s not to say it’s incapable of making…
Read More“iPhone and iPad games suck. There’s no buttons!” This is a constant (erroneous) statement we all see people making for why the traditional console makers have nothing to fear about Apple. Except now they do, if a recent patent filing is any indication. Apple has patented a design that looks…
Read MoreNintendo’s month long celebration of all things portable and Mario commences this week with a sale on the original Super Mario Bros and Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3. So no sooner did I start to complain that there wasn’t going to be anything new posting to the eShop for A…
Read MoreNintendo has declared August the ‘Month of Mario’ in honor of the plumber’s upcoming second 3DS adventure. Basically, that shakes out to one Mario eShop title on sale, each week, for the four weeks leading up to release day. Since New Super Mario Bros 2 is all about the gold…
Read MoreThe Wii U: Nintendo’s most important hardware launch yet Nintendo has released its first financial quarter results, and while the numbers still don’t look good, the company is on the path to reverse its horror previous year. The results were in line with the company’s forecasts: a net loss of…
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