Zen Studios announced their intentions to port their extremely popular pinball game, Pinball FX2, to other platforms quite a while ago. Earlier this year they debuted the game on iOS and Android and now they are ready to release a PC version as well. If you download the newly released Windows 8 Consumer Preview you will be [...]
Blizzard announced today that in order to “address the changing needs of our company,” 600 people will be laid off in “overstaffed” areas of the organization. CEO and cofounder Mike Morhaime said that only 10% of the layoffs will come from game development roles and that current release and development schedules will not be affected. [...]
Chances are, you’ve never heard of Bravoman. A platformer parody of the tokusatsu genre (the style of show that Ultraman, Power Rangers, Godzilla, and more encapsulate), the game was released in arcades in Japan, but only came to America via the TurboGrafx-16. When the title hit the Wii Virtual Console five years ago, that was [...]
Do you know the legendary man Arino Shinya? For years in Japan, Arino has been playing retro games as host of Game Center CX. When his adventures became notable enough, he garnered a video game thematically based on his adventures, released for the Nintendo DS in America as Retro Game Challenge. In the past year, [...]
Blue streak speeds by, Sonic the Hedgehog! Too fast for the naked eye, Sonic the Hedgehog! In the 1990s, there were three different attempts at giving Sonic the Hedgehog a presence in the animated world. Japan stayed true to the video games with their OVA, but America had two series; one focused on the adventures [...]
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