Geek Girl Navigating the World-Gaming for the Non-gamer
I’m not a gamer. I never have been. The last gaming system that I owned (and still do, oddly enough) was the Super Nintendo. I spent a whole summer mowing lawns and saving the money to buy the Super Scope Six because Mom promised me that if I saved up the money for the scope [...]
Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Trailer
It seems to this gamer that whenever you put the name Zelda on a project, you almost guarantee yourself an instant classic. The Legend of Zelda game for the original Nintendo debuted in the late 1980s and is simply as iconic as they come. Since then, with titles like Ocarina of Time, which exemplified the [...]
Donkey Kong Country Returns – Hands-on Impressions: PAX Prime 2010
Donkey Kong Country Returns debuted at this year’s E3 with a wave of nostalgia attached. The first new game for Donkey Kong in years and the first non-Metroid Prime game by the acclaimed Retro Studios, can the game live up to years of expectations? I was able to get hands-on time with one of the [...]
Disney Epic Mickey – Hands-on Impressions: PAX Prime 2010
Disney Epic Mickey is the brainchild of acclaimed game developer Warren Spector, best known for the Deus Ex series on PC. Here he’s taken his style of design and placed it on the most iconic of characters in Mickey Mouse. Does the meshing of designer and character work for the best? I got a guided [...]
Kirby’s Epic Yarn – Hands-on Impressions: PAX Prime 2010
Kirby’s Epic Yarn made a huge impression when it was shown off for the first time at this year’s E3 conference. With its unique look and gameplay elements, it seems to continue Kirby’s tradition of changing up the platforming genre as he did in Kirby Canvas Curse for the DS. At PAX 2010 the game [...]
Sonic Colors – Hands-on Impressions: PAX Prime 2010
Sonic Colors started out as the offshoot cousin to Sonic 4, the Xbox Live Arcade/PlayStation Network downloadable game that seems to take Sonic back to his Genesis roots. Yet as time has gone on, it feels like Sonic Colors has become the real Sonic game of this fall, and at this year’s PAX, I [...]
Nintendo’s Epic Mickey Intro
Empire has brought us a first look at Nintendo Wii’s upcoming game Epic Mickey, set for a November 19 release. Over the years, I must admit that I’ve fallen out of touch with the mouse, much preferring Mighty Mouse or Tom & Jerry to his antics, but this game from Disney Interactive and Warren Spector [...]
E3 Press Conference Impressions: Nintendo
Nintendo held its press conference early Tuesday morning, and by playing to its nostalgia strengths and focusing on the audience who made them what they are, they had arguably the best show of the conference. Things immediately started with a bang with the long-awaited reveal of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for Wii, using [...]
New Game Releases Week of March 21, 2010
Week of March 21, 2010 release list by platform, including genre of each title: microsoft XBOX 360 Just Cause 2 – Action/Adventure MotoGP 09/10 – Racing How to Train Your Dragon – Action (based on movie of same name) Game Room (Xbox Live Arcade) – Compilation nintendo WII Red Steel 2 – First-person shooter Rooms: [...]
E3 2010, Nintendo to Announce All-New “3DS”
There are many iterations of the Nintendo DS hand-held – DS, DSLite, DSi, and the DSi XL – but Nintendo is planning to unveil a new hardware series of hand-held dubbed “3DS”. Confused? We thought so. Why name a new hardware platform so close to the old hardware series? No one knows, though brand name [...]
Wii, Metroid: Other M Release Date
On the heels of announcing Super Mario Galaxy 2′s release date, Nintendo announced another stellar title from their bottemless coffer of money-making titles: Metroid: Other M. That’s right, another Metroid title from the Big N. Delving further into the story of Samus Aran’s space-hopping, bounty-hunting tales, the trio of developers – Nintendo, Team Ninja, and [...]
Super Mario Galaxy 2 North America Release Date
Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be hitting North America on May 23rd, as per Cammie Dunaway from Nintendo America at the Nintendo Summit in San Francisco today. Those lucky enough to attend will also be able to play the game at today’s event. Super Mario Galaxy 2will have 90 percent new levels with the other [...]
