If you have been looking for a game for your iPhone or iPod touch that can pass a few idle moments but still offer hand-cramp-inducing marathon sessions, look no further than the newest joint collaboration from The Iconfactory and DS Media Labs, Ramp Champ. The game offers beautiful graphics, fun sounds, and gameplay that will appeal to everyone.
Flipnote Studio makes the Camera and Sound applications on the Nintendo DSi make sense. And it’s free!
Halo 3: ODST has enjoyed an odd path to release. The game was hinted at during E3 2008, with Microsoft then pulling the plug on the big reveal, deciding instead to unveil the game at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. While the title was originally spoken of in terms of a smaller add-on to the Halo 3 experience, it has since become a $60 two-disc game with extensive single and multiplayer experiences. The development time on the title? Barely a year. Ars Technica spoke with the game’s creative director Joseph Staten to find out just exactly how much of a cowboy project this is.
At BlizzCon this year, Blizzard revealed the next expansion for World of Warcraft universe. Titled World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the expansion will feature a ton of new content, a massive story development for the game, and two new playable races.
This week there was one bit of news that dominated everything else… a trailer for New Super Mario Bros. WiI! Crazily, readers were more interested in the Mario trailer than they were in the new PlayStation 3. That’s not to say stories about the PS3 Slim didn’t do great, it just means there is an insatiable lust for all things Mario. Let’s take a look at what gamers were talking about this week.
Plants vs. Zombies has certainly been a blessing for PopCap Games: it’s received nothing but love from the critiics and has sold extremely well via direct downloads. The game has been such a hit, in fact, that PopCap announced today that the game has been appearing on store shelves across North America this week. However, the even bigger news is that the company has officially confirmed that it’s bringing Plants vs. Zombies to Xbox Live and the iPhone, something that’s been rumored for a while.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is not a good movie, by any stretch of the imagination. It can, though, pass for a decent popcorn flick if the audience watching it a) goes in expecting absolutely nothing cerebral from Stephen Sommers’ latest film, b) has liquor on hand and invents a series of drinking games to go along with the movie’s dumber moments, or c) is composed of boys under the age of 13. To coincide with the big-screen adaptation of The Rise of Cobra, Electronic Arts has produced a tie-in game that is nearly the same quality as its inspiration: something that might be appealing for younger audiences, but ultimately forgettable in the long run.
Great fire physics and action variety fan the flames of excitement while trial and error scenarios dose this first-person fireman experience.
Trials HD is one of the better games released during this year’s Summer of Arcade promotion on Xbox Live, but the game does have a major flaw: the user-created tracks can only be traded among friends, and only the creator can give the track to a friend. This effectively stops the spread of content and, with no central server, there is no way to have a track spread out to a large number of people.
