Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure
Publisher: Square-Enix
Developer: Taito
Genre: Platformer
Release Date: 06/15/2009
Okay, I’m a well known fan of Bubble Bobble and Puzzle Bobble AKA Bust-A-Move. Last year’s Bubble Bobble: Double Shot won our Puzzle Game of the Year award and the original is on the favourites list of nearly everyone on staff. In fact, when we used [...]

My Healthy Cooking Coach
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft
Genre: Cookbook
Release Date: 6/23/2009
Around Thanksgiving of 2008, Nintendo released an unlikely hit for the Nintendo DS: Personal Trainer: Cooking. In yet another example of outside the box thinking that paid off, Nintendo managed to win over a decent number of people who don’t normally buy games. The Lisa Kudrow [...]

Class of Heroes
Publisher: Atlus USA
Developer: Zerodiv
Genre: Dungeon Crawler
Release Date: 06/09/2009
Ah, the dungeon crawler: the original RPG genre. These days Atlus USA is the only one publishing these titles, with games like The Dark Spire and Etrian Odyssey. So far this series this genre had suffered from two big problems. The first is that none [...]

Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled
Developer: Studio Archcraft
Publisher: Graffiti Entertainment
Genre: Tactical RPG
Release Date: 06/09/2009
Black Sigil is the first game by a new Canadian developer known as Studio Archcraft. Originally this game was developed for the Game Boy Advance, but it appears due to delays, they ported it to the DS instead. After all, they [...]

The Legendary Starfy
Developer: TOSE
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Platformer
Release Date: 06/08/2009
Densetsu no Starfy was one of Nintendo’s most successful series on the GBA. For some reason, NOA never brought the series outside the little island nation of Japan. All three GBA Starfy’s made to #1 on the sales charts across the pacific and the Nintendo DS version released [...]

Knights in the Nightmare
Developer: Sting
Publisher: Atlus USA
Genre: Turn Based Strategy/Puzzle
Release Date: 06/02/2009
Ah, Sting. We meet again. I’ve got an odd love-hate relationship with this developer as they constantly make games that sound interesting on paper but always fall short of being truly great, and sometimes even good.
I first encountered Sting on my [...]

About a month and a half ago I did a feature on building movesets for two Pokemon – Garchomp and Dusknoir, by the request of one of my writers. It seemed like a fun idea and little did I know that this one-off would become one of our twenty most read articles of all time. [...]

Infamous
Publisher: SCEA
Developer: Sucker Punch
Genre: Sandbox
Release Date: 05/26/2009
Each generation of gaming has their own genre that seems to define it. In the 8-Bit era, it was Platformers and Shoot ‘Em Ups. The 16-Bit era was the evolution of RPG’s and Fighting Games. The 32-Bit era seemed to be all about 3-D action games and platformers. Last [...]

Cross Edge
Publisher: NIS America
Developer: Compile Heart
Genre: Turn Based RPG
Release Date: 05/27/2009

EA Active
Developer: Electronic Arts
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Genre: Exercise
Release Date: 05/18/2009