News by Matt S. Like pinball? Like ridiculous oppai? Have a sense of humour? Peach Ball: Senran Kagura looks like it’s going to do a great job filling that really specific niche. It’s quite literally a digital pinball game in which the Senran Kagura girls crawl over the table, and…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There’s been such a resurgence of digital pinball in recent years. A good bulk of real pinball tables that exist in the real world have been digitised, and there have been so many original digital creations that have really pushed boundaries. It’s not hard to understand…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. It’s been a while since I did a retro reflections piece, but I’ve been playing Super Pinball Action quite a lot in recent weeks, so I thought I would write a little thing about it. Super Pinball Action was an arcade game that came to us…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. There was a stream overnight giving people the first look at a new Senran Kagura game in action. Unlike most of the titles in the series, however, this one is not an action-heavy brawler. Oh no. Peach Ball: Senran Kagura is a pinball title. And it’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S One of my goals, somewhere down the track if I ever find the time to do it, is to design and build my own pinball table. I’ve got this great idea for a Hatsune Miku-themed one, and while a pinball table is a complex thing to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The digital pinball space is surprisingly competitive, given how niche pinball is these days. Zen Studios and its brilliant original creations via Pinball FX 3 and Farsight Studios with its physics-perfect recreation of classic tables in The Pinball Arcade absolutely dominate the genre, and there’s not…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Yoku’s Island Express is a game which I could describe as “peak Metroidvania”, or maybe even “aggressively Metroidvania”. I feel a bit guilty making that joke since two-man team Villa Gorilla are developers with a lot of heart, and after a 5-year development cycle for Yoku…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. It’s always a good week when Zen Studios launches new tables for its awesome Pinball FX 3 platform. This time around we get two new tables, based on Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Of these two tables, one is very much a hit. One is a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s always a good day when Zen Studios releases new pinball tables. This week, on Pinball FX 3, we’ve been treated with three new pinball tables based on the Jurassic Park franchise (called “Jurassic World Pinball”). And they’re delightful. Like with the earlier Aliens and Predator…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I love Zen Studios and its approach to pinball. I loved Zen Pinball 2 with a passion, and I love Pinball FX 3 even more, if that’s possible. Related reading: Matt’s review of Pinball FX 3. What’s especially impressive is that the developer has been so…
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