I love Zen Studios’ approach to pinball. I’ve been playing the company’s games for the past 13 years, and naturally, I was very keen to check out the new Pinball FX (which is actually Pinball FX4). The core pinball action is even better than ever. Sadly, though, there are some…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Zen Studios’ Pinball FX has been one of my go-to game series for a long time now. From as far back as one of the earliest releases on the Nintendo 3DS eShop, I’ve been playing just about everything Zen throws out there, and as a big-time…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Brave Pinball takes JRPGs and pinball and smooshes them together like you’d smoosh two totally incompatible characters together in a fan fiction… and it looks great. Developed by Apollosoft and Power Unit, the game will release on Steam on August 4, and will support English, Japanese,…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Pinball Lockdown isn’t a great game (actually, it’s a terrible pinball experience, even on a budget), but it did get me thinking as I was playing, and asking myself just what do I like about pinball. Obviously the experience of flicking the ball around the playfield…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’ll play basically anything pinball. It’s something I’ve grown up with my entire life and to this day I love quality pinball action. The Nintendo Switch is well served there – even if you ignore Zen Studios’ brilliant Pinball FX3, there’s niche stuff like Zaccaria Pinball,…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I love pinball, of course, so this week’s surprise drop of three new tables (seriously, I didn’t know they were coming) was welcome indeed. Especially when it includes my favourite pinball table of all: Tales of the Arabian Nights. In this video I take a quick…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I do love Zen Studios’ Pinball FX3. It’s been a bit of a busy couple of months, so I’ve had to put my pinballing on the backburner, but being the big fan of bad B-tier horror and science fiction that I am, I couldn’t resist checking…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. The newly released Star Wars Pinball for the Nintendo Switch is an impressive collection of tables that serves to bring the entire package together in a different way than the usual offerings from Zen Studios. Some of those new ideas work better than others, but on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Senran Kagura, at its best (i.e. in the earlier entries) did a brilliant job of taking ridiculous, heaving, over-the-top sexuality (i.e. gigantic boobs) and using it to satirical and comedic effect. There was close to a visual novel’s worth of depth sitting behind those characters and…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Zen Studios is once again working its pinball magic, this time with yet more classic real pinball in Pinball FX3: Williams Pinball: Volume 3. This mix of nostalgic pinball action and the modern appeal of video game magic comes together beautifully for pinball fanatics such as…
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