It’s no secret that the traditionally Japan-focused game developer Square Enix has recently been eyeing the huge North American game market. This is a new direction for a company that has only briefly flirted with Western-focused development in the past—most notably with Secret of Evermore and Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest, both released on the Super Nintendo.
The latest version of the famous Halo trilogy!
This is yet another great addition to the Halo trilogy. Halo Wars takes the player 20 years before the original Halo: Combat Evolved, but in an entirely new game style. Halo Wars is not a first person shooter (FPS) like the previous installments. Instead, for the first time in this series, this title is a real-time strategy (RTS) game. You play as…
Any Grand Theft Auto game on the DS is going to be defined by the hardware, as Nintendo’s portable is the least-powerful system on the market. It also sells amazingly well, moving 3 million units last December. That’s a customer base that’s impossible to ignore, so Rockstar has decided to shoehorn its most popular series into the little money-making machine. What’s surprising is just how good the result is and how much care went into the game’s design. The motivation may have come from profits, but the execution is pure class.
This summer, a little-known publisher by the name of Genius Products will release Scratch: The Ultimate DJ, a peripheral-based rhythm game for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. The game has been billed as the first Guitar Hero or Rock Band experience for hip-hop enthusiasts, and features creative oversight from legendary scratch DJ Mix Master Mike, aka Michael Schwartz.
Developing games for Nintendo Wii just got a whole lot easier. That is if recent comments by an indie developer of “two WiiWare projects” is to be believed.
This FPS has a familiar formula, but the online options and entertaining gameplay is a bargain at 1000 Wii points.
This first-person shooter (FPS) has a fairly familiar formula, but the online options and entertaining gameplay make it a complete bargain at 1000 Wii points. This recent Wiiware title helps push the quality and quantity of direct downloads on this popular console. As a member of the Elite Interstellar Strike Force, you must destroy alien baddies…
Tie-ins—games based on movies—have earned a well-deserved reputation for shoddy quality. As a result, such games are seen as little more than attempts to separate fans of the films from some extra cash. But one title stands out among the masses of inferior games: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay.
This week in gaming we have the Wheelman, a game that should be terrible… but is surprisingly good. Microsoft deals with the increasingly large file size of downloadable games, Watchmen continues to draw interest from gamers, and the Chinese government has a bone to pick with World of Warcraft. Let’s see what had people talking this week.
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