Trailer Review: Critter Crunch on PSN
Developer Capy already had a hit on their hands with unique puzzler Critter Crunch, the award-winning mobile phone game ported to the iPhone for the App Store’s launch nearly a year ago. If Lumines and Tetris have taught us anything, though, it’s that addictive portable puzzle games are still awesome on a big screen at home, and so we have this trailer for Critter Crunch’s hi-def debut on Playstation Network. Continue reading »
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Trailer Review: SaGa 2: Goddess of Destiny
The Nintendo DS can make some fetching three-dimensional games. Even a launch title like the Super Mario 64 remake showed that the double-screened wonder could pump-out polygons better than the Playstation and Nintendo 64. It may not be up to Dreamcast standards, but the system can still make some mighty fine looking games. Square-Enix and their stable of developers, both in-house and freelance, have been particularly good at making gorgeous, elegant three-dimensional DS games. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, Final Fantasy III and IV are stunners that put the likes of Nintendo’s own Chibi Robo: Park Patrol to shame. This new DS remake of SaGa 2 is looking like their finest work yet.
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Trailer Review: Rolando 2
ngmoco’s Rolando is without a doubt the breakout hit game of the iPod/iPhone, so what can we expect from its sequel? From the looks of this trailer, more of the same, only bigger and better.
Yes, Rolando 2 is from the Tap Tap Revenge school of iPod game sequels - build a new engine to play the same game even better - rather than the newtonica school of making a wholly different game with the same name and a numeral on the end, but that’s perfectly cool. It still looks to have all the great tilt-n-jump gameplay you wish LocoRoco had, but with environments that are decidedly more LittleBigPlanetesque for some 2.5 dimensional bliss. Continue reading »
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Trailer Review: Fallout 3: Broken Steel
‘Bout time.
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Trailer Review: PixelJunk 1-4 Revealed, Name Pending Your Input
A lot of people (myself included) expected a grand unveiling of Q Games’ fourth title in the PixelJunk series of HD 2D PSN games at GDC last month. Didn’t happen.
This morning, however, Q Games mastermind Dylan Cuthbert proudly announced on his Twitter the PixelJunk 1-4 Naming Contest. The game appears to be just about complete from this new trailer, the only thing the kids at Q are missing is, well, what to call their game. Trailer just after the break. Continue reading »
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Trailer Review: Dead Rising 2
It begins.
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John Constantine, our superhero, was raised by birds and then attended Penn State University. He is currently working on a novel about a fictional city that exists only in his mind. John has an astonishingly extensive knowledge of Scientology. Ultimately he would like to learn how to effectively use his brain. He continues to keep Wu-Tang's secret to himself. 
Derrick Sanskrit is a self-professed geek in a variety of fields including typography, graphic design, comic books, music and cartoons. As a professional hipster graphic designer, his recent clients have included Nerve, Pitchfork and MoCCA, among others.
Amber Ahlborn - artist, writer, gamer and DigiPen survivor, she maintains a day job as a graphic artist. By night Amber moonlights as a professional Metroid Fanatic and keeps a metal suit in the closet just in case. Has lived in the state of Washington and insists that it really doesn't rain as much as everyone says it does.
Nadia Oxford is a housekeeping robot who was refurbished into a warrior when the world's need for justice was great. Now that the galaxy is at peace (give or take a conflict here or there), she works as a freelance writer for various sites and magazines.
Based in Toronto, Nadia prizes the certificate from the Ministry of Health declaring her tick and rabies-free.
Bob Mackey is a grad student, writer, and cyborg, who uses the powerful girl-repelling nanomachines mad science grafted onto his body to allocate time towards interests of the nerd persuasion. He believes that complaining about things on the Internet is akin to the fine art of wine tasting, but with more spitting into buckets.
Joe Keiser has a programming degree from Johns Hopkins University, a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, and a fake toy guitar built in the hollowed-out shell of a real guitar. He writes about games and technology for a variety of outlets. One day he will stop doing this. The day after that, police will find his body under a collapsed pile of (formerly neatly alphabetized) collector's edition tchotchkes.
