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Category: Previews

  • Preview: WordJong Party (Nintendo Wii)

    Preview: WordJong Party (Wii) Publisher: Destineer Developer: Magellan Interactive Platforms: Wii Genre: Puzzle Release Date: TBA The smash online and Nintendo DS™ puzzler WordJong is coming to Wii™ with all-new multiplayer modes, gorgeous new visuals and more in WordJong Party! Use a set of lettered tiles to create words and clear the board in both…

  • Preview: Animal Boxing (Nintendo DS)

    Preview: Animal Boxing (NDS) Publisher: Destineer Developer: Gammick Studios Genre: Action Release Date: October The Nintendo DS becomes the Nintendo SD in Animal Boxing! The unique “Slam Down” system works by turning the system upside down, letting you fight with amazing Touch Screen controls! Aim for the head and torso of your opponent with easy…

  • Preview: Little Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ (Nintendo DS)

    Preview: Little Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ (NDS) Publisher: Destineer Developer: Enjoy Up! Platforms: Nintendo DS Genre: Action Release Date: October Something has gone terribly wrong in Fairy Tale Land! It’s up to Little Red Riding Hood to defeat twisted versions of fairy tale characters in Little Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ for Nintendo DS™.…

  • Preview: Stoked (Microsoft Xbox 360)

    Preview: Stoked (360) Publisher: Destineer Developer: Bongfish Platforms: Xbox 360 Genre: Sports Release Date: November 2008 Developed in conjunction with world-renowned snowboarding movie creator Absinthe Films, Stoked captures the pioneering spirit of professional back country riders. Exhilarating snowboarding experiences are born from dynamic backcountry conditions. The riders who brave and master these conditions are the…

  • Preview: Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine (NDS, Wii)

    Preview: Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine (NDS, Wii) Publisher: Destineer Developer: Black Lantern Studios Platforms: Wii/Nintendo DS Genre: Cooking Simulation Release Date: TBA Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine challenges players to take up the role as a master chef in the midst of a battle for culinary supremacy. Recreating the blistering speed of the Food…

  • Preview: MLB Power Pros 2008 (Wii, PS2, DS)

    Last year, I was convinced that there was no baseball game better than MLB ’07: The Show. It had everything I could ask for in a baseball game, and just felt “right”, especially when compared to the dreck that was Major League Baseball 2K7. This year, that’s pretty much the case as well, but at…

  • Review: City Life 2008 (PC)

    City Life Edition 2008 Developer: Monte Cristo Multimedia Publisher: Paradox Interactive Genre: Simulation Release Date: 07/15/2008 Buy it Here

  • Hands-On Preview: Mount & Blade (PC)

    Mount & Blade, at first glance, seems to take a lot of its inspiration from Oblivion or Two Worlds. It’s a third person game with a decidedly medieval bent. It features town navigation, melee and ranged combat, third person action and overworld exploration. This only really scratches the surface, of course. Upon digging further into…

  • Life of a Beta Male Part 3: Beta vs Demo

    Welcome to the third and final Life of a Beta Male column, unless I’m in another Beta without a non-disclosure agreement.

  • Top Ten DC Characters I Want to Appear in MK vs DCU

    If you haven’t heard by now, the next Mortal Kombat game is going to be MK vs DCU: a crossover game that features the cast of the Mortal Kombat universe versus character from the world of DC Comics. I’m sure for some people this might seem a bit of a stretch, but I honestly couldn’t…

  • 13 Questions About… Ducati Moto DS

    Vir2l Studios is responsible for the forthcoming Ducati Moto DS, an exciting looking racer for the Nintendo DS. Check out our interview with the President of Vir2L Studios Douglas Frederick as we take a look at what DS racing fans can look forward to.

  • Hands-On Preview: Dracula Origin (PC)

    Late last week The Adventure Company sent me a preview build of Dracula:Origin to play through. I’ve been very interested in this game since it was announced. Dracula: Resurrection was the game that brought me back to the point n’ click genre almost a decade ago, and although this by an entirely different development team,…

  • Life of a Beta Male- Battlefield: Bad Company Impressions #2

    Welcome to the second series of impressions on the beta for Battlefield: Bad Company.

  • Life of a Beta Male-Battlefield: Bad Company Impressions

    If you’ve ever played a Battlefield game before you know that there’s no other multiplayer game that is quite like it. Capturing respawn points and large scale battles are the main points of any Battlefield game and what keep the fans of the series constantly coming back for more. The series has such a simple…

  • Preview: Dracula: Origin (PC)

    Of course it only makes sense for ol’ Vlad the Impaler’s namesake to do a preview on this game… Dracula: Origin is the latest game being developed by Frogware Studios. Frogware gave us last year’s Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened which was an excellent Holmes vs. the Cthulhu Mythos title that took runner up for both…

  • Press Release From THQ Regarding SD vs. Raw 2008

    (I figured with the crossover audience we have here, some of you might find this interesting – Lucard) THQ ANNOUNCES PLAYABLE DEMO AVAILABILITY AND PRE-ORDER RETAIL INCENTIVES FOR WWE(r) SMACKDOWN(r) VS. RAW(r) 2008 WHAT: Beginning today, consumers who pre-order WWE(r) SmackDown(r) vs. Raw(r) 2008 at select retailers throughout North America will receive a copy of…

  • Preview: Lunar Knights (DS)

    There are some games that just never catch on in the United States. It may be that they are never released here and only have a small import market such as Sakura Taisen or that the game just never got much more then a cult following Mother/Earthbound. These games often show some companies trepidation on…

  • Preview: Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Nintendo Wii)

    Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Intelligent Sys. Genre: Party/Mini-Game Release Date: 1-15-2007 By my own admission, Wario Ware: Smooth Moves for the Nintendo Wii is one of the titles that really attracted me to buying my Wii. The DS releases in the Wario series have all been fun, and have truly showed off the capabilities and uniqueness…

  • Preview: Silverfall (PC)

    Publisher: Atari Developer: Monte Crisco Genre: Dungeon Adventure Release Date: 3/6/2007 Silverfall is a dungeon adventure/crawler game that certainly has a fair amount of intrigue to it as we head into 2007. With the PC being the best place for games of this kind of genre Silverfall will try to break itself a niche in…

  • Preview: Dawn of Mana (PS2)

    Publisher: Square-Enix Developer: Square-Enix Genre: Action RPG Release Date: 3-30-2007 Square-Enix definitely has its stalwart series that their fans depend on for their fix of RPG gaming. However, one series certainly has been on the forefront of the RPG communities mind lately, and they keep questioning why Square-Enix just hasnâ┚¬â”žÂ¢t been able to recapture the…