Tagged: XBLA
Kart racers are probably the most common type of game you can find. It seems that every IP eventually gets its very own kart racing game. From the Looney Tunes to Final Fantasy to M&Ms, you can’t go far without… Read More »
Any successful brand of entertainment worth its weight in quarters will have inspired a pinball machine theme somewhere along the way; The Simpsons, Star Wars, Kiss, etc. You can add Ms. Splosion Man to that list, now that ZEN Studios… Read More »
Sometimes when a license like Ugly Americans is taken into the gaming world, playing it without prior knowledge of the source material means the player is lost from the get go. Apocalypsegeddon doesn’t seem to suffer from that. Of course,… Read More »
We have seen many events through history, from the time of Leonidas to Charlemagne, and Napoleon, and we have crushed those guys with a boulder. Rock of Ages combines tower defense mechanics and rolling ball mechanics (see: Marble Madness, Super… Read More »
Everyone’s favourite Dhampir is back, but she’s not in the best of shape. BloodRayne: Betrayal marks the return for the nine year-old franchise in the form of a completely 2D side-scrolling platformer/hack-and-slash. This new direction for the series is an… Read More »
Dungeon crawlers are a dime a dozen these days. It’s a genre that cries for ineguity and originality. Crimson Alliance delivers neither. While playing this game, the first thought that comes to mind is standard. It’s all been done before… Read More »
In the early 90s, gaming was given a bloody jolt when Mortal Kombat was unleashed on arcades. While the 2D fighting was nothing new, the ability to literally kill your opponent in gory ways was anything but old. Over the… Read More »
Bacon. Video games. Who doesn’t love both? Combine the two and you get the mostly entertaining and always funny action-RPG The Baconing. In the third installment of the DeathSpank series, players find out that instead of destroying all five thongs… Read More »
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is known by some as the best Street Fighter game ever. It traded off the majority of the classic characters, brought in a new cast, and ushered in a more technical fighting system. This game… Read More »
When Portal creator Kim Swift left Valve over a year ago for Airtight Games, she was offered the lead role on a brand new project. A recent preview has revealed that game to be Quantum Conundrum, a first-person puzzle platformer…. Read More »