Post Tagged with: "arcade"

by / on May 6, 2013 at 9:18 am / in PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360

Flying High | Under Defeat HD Review

Old games are being remade more and more often nowadays. Under Defeat HD is the latest in this trend, being a remake and update of the original Under Defeat title that came out on Sega Dreamcast back in 2006. Nostalgia wraps around this title like a blanket. It has the authentic feel of an old-school arcade game, and many gamers will [...]

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by / on April 20, 2013 at 9:00 am / in Featured News, News

The Binding of Isaac Passes Two Million Downloads

According to Edmund McMillen, Co-Creator of Team Meat, the rogue dungeon crawler The Binding of Isaac has sold over two million copies. The information was divulged during a recently conducted interview with YouTuber Northernlion. This success of the PC title made Edmund McMillen hopeful for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth which will bring the game to new audiences by releasing on the PC, [...]

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by / on September 11, 2012 at 9:00 am / in PC, Reviews

Review: Miner Wars Arena

Miner Wars 2081 is an ambitious upcoming project from Keen Software House, incorporating a first-person, action-survival space simulator with single-player, co-op, and multiplayer support and a fully destructible and persistent open-world. It’s currently using the Minecraft model in which you can prepurchase the alpha, with an MMO version in the works to follow up the “classical” flavor. It’s got a pretty wild wishlist of features, and [...]

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by / on August 24, 2012 at 8:40 am / in PC, Reviews

Review: Symphony

credit score repair tips Think the last Guitar Hero soundtrack was garbage? It would be great if you could use any song in your rhythm game of choice, so it's understandable why many indie rhythm games have tried to make procedural level generation work with your own tunes. There's been a few solid attempts at this sort of game before, [...]

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by / on June 26, 2012 at 12:00 pm / in iOS, Mobile Gaming, Reviews

Review: Suspect in Sight

Suspect in Sight, by Jujubee S. A., is your typical iOS one-trick pony, in that the whole game revolves around one single mechanic.  It just so happens that this particular pony has some real kick to it.  The game takes this one trick and manages to make an entire experience around it that is satisfying and makes you want to [...]

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by / on May 10, 2012 at 3:04 pm / in PC, Reviews

Review: Fireburst

The racing genre is almost as tough to gain success in as the stagnating FPS genre, so when an indie team takes the risk to create another racing game, they need something special up their sleeves. There are plenty of great, well-crafted racers out there, but many of them never get the praise they deserve due to the crowded market. [...]

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by / on March 21, 2012 at 12:25 pm / in Reviews, Xbox 360

Review: Fruit Ninja Kinect

Slicing fruit may not be too exciting in real life, but it’s proven to be the opposite in a popular mobile game known as Fruit Ninja. This game is now available for download in the Xbox Live Arcade, but you’ll need a Kinect to play it. The name it goes by on the Xbox 360 is none other than Fruit Ninja [...]

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by / on October 13, 2011 at 11:43 am / in Controller Accessories, Peripheral Review

Peripheral Review: Rcade Freek

All those arcade fans out there rejoice, there is a controller modification made specifically for you called the Rcade Freek by Kontrol Freek.  This controller mod takes the feel and control of a joystick to the console of your choice.  The Rcade Freek are thumb stick mods that sit on top of your controllers thumbsticks.  There is no tools necessary [...]

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