Archive for September, 2009
Virtual Vox Pop: Will You Purchase Super Street Fighter IV?
Virtual Vox Pop is a weekly open mic in which we ask you, the reader, to sound off on a particular topic. This week, it’s Super Street Fighter IV. C’mon, we all knew this was coming. Capcom set a precedent for out-of-control game updates with the original Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, which spawned [...]
The Award-Winning Elven Chronicles Arrives on the iPod and iPod touch
Alive 4 Ever and Magical Drop Touch represent the iPhone/iPod touch’s most prominent style of play: easily-digestible titles that can be lapped up in quick fashion while commuting, or when impatiently waiting in line at the post office. Those looking for more long form gameplay have been coming up empty, but developer Big Blue Bubble [...]
TimeWasters: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Double Damage
TimeWasters highlights many of the excellent Web-based/lightweight downloadable titles that you can dive into within the space of a lunch break. This week, Chris Gampat explores Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Double Damage. Cowabunga! Ubisoft’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Double Damage is a free flash game that will keep Turtles fanboys satisfied and time wasters constantly [...]
Feature: The Greatest 2D Sports Videogame Athletes: Mark Messier Edition
If you weren’t living in New York City during the middle-to-late ’90s, it’ll be difficult for you to understand the unadulterated bliss, shared camaraderie, and fevered excitement that filled the boroughs at that time. The Yankees went from ’80s bridemaids to masters of the universe; the loser Knicks reinvented themselves as world championship contenders, but [...]
Review: Magical Drop Touch (iPhone/iPod touch)
Bubble popping games have been the face of “casual” gaming for decades, but the more hardcore among us may have mistaken them nothing more than the playthings of those that aren’t “true” gamers. I’ll openly admit that I once dwelt in that camp, but it was the Neo Geo’s Magical Drop III that swayed me [...]
Virtual Vox Pop: What’s The Worst 2D Game That You’ve Ever Played?
Virtual Vox Pop is a weekly open mic in which we ask you, the reader, to sound off on a particular topic. This week, it’s craptacular games. You know a game is a substandard mess of epic proportions when you and your friends try to justify its existence. 1993′s Power Moves was, without a shiver [...]
Review: Scribblenauts (DS)
Scribblenauts is not a good game. The controls are absolutely maddening. All movement is controlled by the touch screen, and that wouldn’t be so bad if every other action in the game (save moving the camera) weren’t also controlled by the very same tiny surface. You combine these controls with a physics system that would [...]
Dungeon Fighter Online Beta Now Open To The Public
It’s time to grab your weapon and spells and take to the battlefield. Today, Nexon America officially opened the Dungeon Fighter Online beta testing to all gamers after months of anticipation. This Neople-created MMO brawler combines the 2D scrapping elements of beat ‘em ups with the fantasy elements inherent to massively multi-player online titles. Gamers [...]
Review: Time Hollow (DS)
Time Hollow is a story-driven point and tap style adventure along the lines of the cult classic like Phoenix Wright. In Time Hollow, players assume the identity of Ethan Kairos, a high school student whose parents disappear on his 17th birthday. Strangely enough it’s as though they never existed. After your parents’ disappearance, you come [...]
Bits and Bytes: 9/20/09
Bits and Bytes is a weekly round up of some of the more interesting gaming news items that happened to slip through the cracks during our normal posting schedule. They’re presented here in easily-digestible bite-size chunks. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter for more 2D gaming commentary. Funky Bomber Bomberman is an old school [...]
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