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It’s Mario Month on the Nintendo Download

July 26, 2012

Nintendo’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…

The Walking Dead stalks iOS

July 26, 2012

iOS/telltale games/the walking dead

Telltale Games’ excellent serial adventure title based on Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead makes it’s anticipated debut on Apple’s iDevices today. Not running too far behind it’s console siblings, which are only on ep2, the iOS version of the Dead makes it’s shambling entrance onto the App Store with the game’s…

blazing-star-hits-android-and-ios

July 26, 2012

Android/Blazing Star/iOS/shooters/snk

A “more than perfect port” of fan favorite SNK arcade shooter Blazing Star has blasted onto Android and iOS mobile platforms today. The classically styled shoot ’em up offers several different starships to take the fight to the bad guys with and a pretty deep ‘in game’ system of power…

The PSN update plays foosball

July 26, 2012

Foosball/LEGO Batman 2/PlayStation/PS3/psn update/PSVita/Resident Evil

The classic game of Foosball goes digital in this week’s PSN update along with Malicious, LEGO Batman 2 and a host of PS Minis. I don’t know how I feel about a video game version of foosball. I mean, it’s foosball. Now in the game’s favor, it does come complete…

armchair-experts-are-problem-in-games

July 26, 2012

armchair expert/games journalism/Opinion

One of the things I learned early in my career as a journalist is something I’ve come to realise is so obvious that I should have never had to learn it in the first place: a journalist should never have an opinion that they don’t have the evidence or plenty…

Review: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD (XBLA)

July 26, 2012

Activision/Robomodo/tony hawk's pro skater hd/XBLA/Xbox 360

Tony Hawk was the premier name in skateboarding not all that long ago and so were the games that featured his name. Now after a few disastrous tries at something ‘different’, the birdman is back. I’m sure, there are a lot of folks out there reading this who were big…

zynga-feeling-financial-pain-right-now

July 25, 2012

Financial results/Social games/Zynga

Zynga, once the darling of the social games industry, has reported some very disappointing results as its share price continues to falter. For the company’s Q2 results, it reported a loss of $22.8 million – and that’s despite a climb in revenue on the previous year of 19 per cent…

The Xbox Live update gets Wreckateered

July 25, 2012

prototype 2/Wreckateer/Xbox 360/xbox live update

Week 2 of Summer of Arcade 2012 delivers the Kinect-powered, castle demolishing, Wreckateer to the download service. Wreckateer is maybe the only SoA title for this year that I’m just a wee bit iffy on. It’s a Kinect game, which means that you have to get up and ‘be the…

Left 4 Dead 2’s Cold Stream campaign unexpectedly delayed for Xbox 360 players

July 25, 2012

Left 4 Dead 2/Microsoft/Valve/Xbox 360

Looks like Xbox 360 fans of Valve’s zombie-shooting sequel are being left in a cold stream. First off, I would like to apologize for that awful pun. Secondly, Valve has announced that Xbox 360 who were eagerly looking forward to the Cold Stream update for Left 4 Dead 2 will…

month-of-mario-is-month-of-sales-on

July 25, 2012

3DS/eShop/New Super Mario Bros 2/Nintendo/sale

Nintendo 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…

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