Progress is what we live for. Without some sense of growth or even a goal to aim for beyond our current capabilities, attainable or not, we die. It’s just that simple, if a bit hyperbolized. I don’t necessarily prescribe to the extreme that George Clooney proselytized in Up in the Air, but I do agree [...]
I honestly have no problem with paying for video games. I pretty much grew up in arcades, as a matter of fact. When you move between five schools across two countries in four years, you don’t have a lot of time to make friends. I could always, however, count on two things: 1) my older [...]
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 [...]
We’ve known about the games releasing in Xbox Live’s House Party for a couple of days now, but now we have some concrete footage of each game in action. The line-up is unusually solid, (I personally can not wait for Alan Wake’s American Nightmare) with a nice mash-up between genres. And like all the previous [...]
The Simpsons has been one of the legacies of American television, running nearly 25 years and about to hit 500 episodes. Japan, though, largely knows them as promotional mascots for a drink. Still, when The Simpsons Arcade Game hit arcades about two decades ago, Japan not only got their own release, but customized it to [...]
Recent Comments