Part third-person shooter, part brawler, part shmup, The Red Star is one of the most underrated action titles to pop up on the PlayStation 2. Based on the the sci-fi/fantasy graphic novel of the same name by Christian Gossett, it made quite an impression on action fans who appreciated the game’s big guns, large explosions, and [...]
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 the hardest games ever. Games just aren’t as hard as they used to be. Don’t mistake this statement as one coming from a person looking to artificially give his gaming [...]
One of the most difficult and time consuming activites that a website editor does on a daily basis is tackle the press release beast. I, for example, receive dozens of very similar-sounding games and gaming accessory pitches in my inbox, with one being barely distinguishable from the next. Bank Run is not one of those [...]
Today, Capcom spilled the beans on a couple of big things for fans of their games. First up, is allowing artists to decide the colors displayed on the Color of Conflict box via a contest run through their website. Also, when gamers pick up Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars this month, they’ll get a couple of cool new surprises. More deets after the jump.
Strikers 1945 Plus, Psikyo’s classic World War II vertical shooter, is now available in the Apps Store, and I am smiling from ear to ear. The 2D shmup devoured huge chunks of my meager Funcoland paychecks when I was in my early to mid 20s, which is remarkably depressing in retrospect when you ponder the [...]
Priced at $20, Valcon Games’ Raiden Fighters Aces was one of the best bang for the buck packages to come along in a long, long time; in fact it may have been the best deal ever for vertical shooter die hards. The title collected the first three Raiden games into a stellar compilation that featured [...]
I don’t recall the precise date, but ’twas sometime in November 1998 that I first connected to this flustercuck that we know as the internet (or “internetz”). Back then, it was a hardcore carnival-meets-wild-wild-west in that you never knew what hilariously awful thing would pop up next. Over the last 11 years, we’ve seen variety [...]
Aksys Games garnered much attention last week for its rather kick ass Cho Aniki ZERO press release which highlighted all of the mantastic qualities of the upcoming PSP game. After reading it, I knew that I had to reach out to the publisher to wrangle up more details, so I present to you my brief [...]
As a member of the media, I wade through a near-insurmountable number of press releases per day, many of which attempt to hype a game by simply scattering the word “new” or, even worse, a “!!!” throughout the text. It’s pretty ho-hum stuff overall, but Aksys Games has restored my faith in the press release [...]
Alientrap Software, developers of the freeware first-person shooter Nexuiz, has taken the wraps of its next project, Capsized, which is slated for Steam and XBLA releases in 2010. Not much is known about the game other than the fact that Capsized is a run-and-gun shooter that utilizes physics based gameplay. As you can see in [...]
