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Tuesday, Nov 3
Nintendo DS Review: Space Invaders Extreme 2
This latest iteration of Space Invaders proves that more invasions are never a bad thing.
Sunday, Oct 11
Nintendo DS Review: Fossil Fighters
The collection aspects of Pokemon combined with the lore of dinosaurs.
Thursday, Oct 1
Nintendo DS Review: Mario & Luigi - Bowser's Inside Story
Does anyone want to know the story of Bowser's insides? Eww.
Sunday, Sep 20
Nintendo DS Review: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Mario and Luigi's latest portable adventure is one of their best.
Wednesday, Aug 12
Nintendo DS Review: Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure
Henry's adventures on the DS are indeed a good show, though the uneven difficulty proves quite puzzling.
Tuesday, Jul 28
Nintendo DS Review: Personal Trainer: Walking
While not a true game, Nintendo serves up a tool that aims to supplement your daily walking activity.
Wednesday, Apr 8
Nintendo DS Review: Rhythm Heaven
That’s your simple goal in this single player game, which has international appeal among several challenges pushing the touch and timing Nintendo DS capabilities. The sideways orientation helps you concentrate solely on stylus motions. ... Product Reviews - IGN
Monday, Feb 2
Nintendo DS Review: Big Bang Mini
OH - Once you destroy baddies on the top with quick upward strokes with the stylus and other advanced movements, they turn into falling stars that you catch on ...
Friday, Jan 2
Nintendo DS Review: My Stop Smoking Coach with Allen Carr
Ready for that New Year’s resolution? Besides getting fit and losing weight, ending smoking addictions has become one of the most common ways to quick start the year. This challenging journey now embodies the video game My Stop Smoking Coach with Allen Carr (a.k.a. Allen Carr’s Easyway to St...
Monday, Nov 24
Wii Virtual Console News and Releases for 11/24/2008
Written by Brian Szabelski Published November 24, 2008. Part of Wii Virtual Console Releases. See also: » Nintendo DS Review: Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS - Nanatsu no Shima no ...
Wednesday, Sep 17
Nintendo DS Review: Quick Yoga Training
OH - The voice features should be helpful throughout the text heavy sets, viewable on both screens, but are not really practical unless you have a headset on. ...
Friday, Aug 22
Nintendo DS Review: New International Track & Field
Nintendo DS Review: New International Track & Field OH - Players can use the touch screen or button controls with some consequences for each. First, rubbing the stylus back and forth requires a fast and light ...
Nintendo DS Review: New International Track & Field
This Konami game series makes its first appearance on the Nintendo DS. This exclusive title celebrates the 25th anniversary of the arcade game, which then moved to the Nintendo console, then Game Boy and Playstation. This series even had an ESPN tie-in. As always, the series continues to ex...
Thursday, Jul 10
DS Review: Teenage Zombies "Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys"
OH - Separate mini-games, including a fun play up of classic arcade games, put the stylus to good use. Those who found themselves enthralled with the previous ...
Friday, May 30
Nintendo Wii Review: Wii Fit
OH - It keeps track of how much you do each activity, much the way Brain Age did on the DS for its mental monkey bars, allowing you to unlock more activities, ...
Tuesday, May 13
PC Game Preview: Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures - Blogcritics.org
PC Game Preview: Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures OH - The game will be available on all consoles, including the Nintendo DS and the PSP. Although Lego Indiana Jones won't be out until June 3rd, ...
Tuesday, Apr 22
Wii Virtual Console News and Releases for 4/21/2008
Wow.When I saw the list of two games this week, that's all I had to say. One of the games is a Sega classic, but the other is one of the most beloved NES games of all time, a game I continue to play to this day and a game that's not exactly easy to come by. Still, seeing it there means that many more people...
Thursday, Feb 28
Nintendo DS Review: Mega Brain Boost
The DS has become a breeding ground for newer genres, including the ever-popular brain-training genre of games. Nintendo started the whole thing off with Brain Age and Big Brain Academy and thus encouraged third-party developers to try and copy them. The result, as expected, is a flood of...
Saturday, Feb 2
Nintendo DS Review: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Veteran fans of the Advance Wars series still get the addictive game play and endless hours of strategic scenarios with new additions and a boosted storyline. Just like the three previous Advance War installments (two on the GameBoy Advance and Dual Strike on the Nintendo DS), this quali...
Tuesday, Jul 31
Nintendo DS Review: Card Fighters DS
The touch screen plays only a small role. The actual battle interface is too cramped to make the stylus useful, so it’s negated to scratching off special bonus cards or opening packs. You can also use it to move the main character, though it’s no more effective than using the D-pad.
Monday, Jul 23
Nintendo DS Review: Cookie & Cream
This Nintendo DS title originated from the Playstation 2, where it was a wacky game. Now, it hops into your pockets, with all the crazy puzzles and boss battles from the original with a touch screen twist. Despite its slow-moving pace, it is still a good game. Unfortunately, Cookie & Crea...
Saturday, Jul 21
Nintendo DS Review: SimCity DS
A bigger screened version would have more appeal, possibly through a Nintendo DS to Wii compatibility add-on similar to the Game Boy Advance adaptor on the bottom of the Gamecube. Gamers could see the screen better, which would great help the building through touch screen issues. Still, e...
Tuesday, Jul 17
Nintendo DS Review: Death Jr. and the Science Fair of Doom
The Death Jr. series originally started on the Sony PSP (Death Jr. - released 2005 and Death Jr. II: Root Of Evil - released 2006) and now has made way to the dual screen wonder made by Nintendo. The series was highly anticipated upon the original release, in fact I remember my friends talking abo...
Thursday, Jul 12
Nintendo DS Review: Brain Buster Puzzle Pak
Nintendo smartly created a genre of games known as Touch Generations that attract all generations, not just the hard core gamer. Such casual games focus on unwinding and brain exercise. Nintendo is definitely onto something as brain exercise games grow more popular as Baby Boomers want t...
Nintendo Wii Review: Pokemon Battle Revolution
When we got our first glimpses of the game, Pokemon Battle Revolution looked great. If the game were as good as previous 3-D Pokemon battling games had been, it'd be worth it. Plus, Nintendo had invested launching their online gaming services with Pokemon Battle Revolution.
Xbox 360 Review: Transformers: The Game
Transformers: The Game is rated T (Teen) by the ESRB Violence. This game can also be found on: Nintendo DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 and Mobile Phone.
Sunday, Jul 8
Nintendo DS Review: Zendoku
The game makes extensive use of the bottom touch screen, which is where the actual sudoku grid and minigames take place. As far as actually playing sudoku with the touch screen goes, it's the same as any other sudoku game out there. The difference comes in the minigames, which force you to tap...
Saturday, Jul 7
Nintendo DS Review: Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery (EU)
Your first port of call (ahem, sorry about the pun) is to learn how to use the Stylus. They really needn't have bothered with the tutorial on this part, as Anno's control system has obviously been designed with the DS in mind. Everything in the game is controlled entirely by the stylus. The top s...
Nintendo DS Review: Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery (EU)
I've been disappointed with Sim games on the DS lately. First we had Theme Park, which is a port of the 14 year-old SNES game with absolutely nothing new added in. Second, we had Sim City DS, which valiantly attempts to win the DS Sim category with it's classic game play, but stumbles at the fini...
Tuesday, Jul 3
Nintendo Wii Review: Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
Boosting your brain mass (measured in grams) is the basic objective in all games. The CPU automatically divides players into teams for the multiplayer modes, and playing against the CPU is always an option. Big Brain Academy Wii Degree is rated E (Everyone) by the ESRB.
Friday, Jun 29
Nintendo DS Review: Touch the Dead
With no relation to the popular Sega franchise House of the Dead, the development studio that handled Winnie the Pooh's Rumbly Tumbly Adventure on the Game Boy Advance shifts gears (drastically) to Touch the Dead. Dream On Studio brings this shooter to the DS with some unique ideas that un...
PS2 Review: Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Rise of the Silver Surfer plays the lot like the recent X-Men video games as well as Marvel Ultimate Alliance. At any time you can switch among the four characters, trading off to solve different puzzles as well as taking advantage of different powers. There are different unlockable featur...
Thursday, Jun 21
Nintendo DS Review: Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu
The story mode uses one of three protagonist characters familiar to most seasoned fans (a fourth is unlockable). In the collection mode, players view cards and interact in other features. Multiplayer modes include wireless play for up to four players (tag, racing and Dragon Ball collect...
Saturday, Jun 16
The Virtual Boy's Odyssey
If anything, it shows that color wasn't apparently important to most people. Granted, times had changed, the Lynx, Game Gear, and Turbo Express all had sharp color screens for the time. Still, the no-color Game Boy outsold them all. What was Nintendo supposed to learn?
Thursday, Jun 14
Nintendo DS Review: Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
Since 1996, Pokemon has been an unstoppable monster on both sides of the Pacific. In Japan, Pokemon games helped push sales of the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS through the roof and you can find Pikachu and company just about anywhere. While the marketing craze has died down in North Ameri...
Monday, Jun 11
Nintendo DS Review: Tomb Raider Legend
Other uses of the DS include selecting items from the menu (weapons, health, PDA) or uncovering artifacts. The latter is done by rubbing "dirt" off the item by sliding the stylus around. Other items are too fragile to be brushed, and the microphone comes into play as you blow away excess dust.
Sunday, Jun 3
Nintendo DS Review: Theme Park
Almost everything is handled with the touch screen. Buttons or the d-pad move a camera around to different areas of the park. In a nice move, simply tapping your selection isn’t enough. You’ll need to circle or draw a check mark on the item, helping the player avoid costly mistakes.
Nintendo DS Review: Devilish
The original Devilish first appeared on the Sega Genesis, but Starfish decided to update it for the DS. Unfortunately, they decided to leave touch-screen interfacing out of the game, something that could have resulted in a quality gaming experience. Instead, we’re left with just using t...
Tuesday, May 22
Nintendo Wii Review: Open Season
Typical slapped on Wii controls include flicking the controller down to pick up an object as opposed to pressing a button which would work every time. The only benefit is first person aiming when tossing an animal or object. The accuracy is great, though unfortunately unneeded in a game as f...
Thursday, May 3
Nintendo DS Review: Pogo Island
It's standard for Nintendo DS games to provide help the first time players play a game. Players can access the help or tutorial anytime from the main menu. However, the micro-game instructions don't appear in the help section. Not all micro-games are obvious that anyone can figure them out w...
Saturday, Apr 28
Nintendo DS Review: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Much akin to Bejeweled, usage of the mouse when played on the computer, Puzzle Quest finds a perfect substitute in the Nintendo DS's touch screen. Switching puzzle pieces, navigating the maps and activating spells or purchasing goods couldn't have been made any easier. Occasionally pla...
Thursday, Apr 5
Opinion: Gaming Import Overview for April 5, 2007
Even more unlockables include new skins, touch-screen mini games and more. The title will also allow for online multiplayer battles as well as local matches when the title hits shelves May 11. Also see Blogcritics' review of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! for the Nintendo DS.
Sunday, Apr 1
Gear Review: Turtle Beach Ear Force D2 Stereo DS Lite Headphones
Nintendo may be offering a mic when it releases Pokémon Diamond/Pearl, but the Ear Force D2 gives you both a mic and a headset in one, and is available now. The DS has a couple games that make use of the mic for Voice over IP (VOIP). Metroid Prime Hunters and the recently released Custom Robo Aren...
Xbox 360 Review: TMNT
Game play resembles a lost PlayStation gem Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster, a title that presented a series of difficult jumping puzzles interspersed with rapid fire combat. TMNT is similar in that its linear level design requires the same timing and skill when jumping onto and off of various...
Thursday, Mar 29
Nintendo DS Review: Tony Hawk Downhill Jam
The trick system is relatively generic on the DS. Face buttons handle the basics such as grinding, grabs, and ollies. Special maneuvers require a tap of the touch screen once a meter has been filled. There’s no reason these couldn’t have been assigned to a button, and it’s a sad case of using th...
Wednesday, Mar 28
Nintedo DS Review: Custom Robo Arena
Unlike the Pokemon series, you can actually avoid some of the battles with other characters. Characters who throw cubes up and down in their hands are the characters you can battle with. Simply walk right up to them and tap A to ask for a battle.
Monday, Mar 26
Nintendo GBA Review: TMNT
After leaving an era of classic after classic, the Ninja Turtles video game career collapsed into a mess of sloppy ideas that failed to capture any of the magic from the arcade and 16-bit titles. That trend has continued with TMNT on the home consoles, yet this little unnoticed Game Boy Adva...
Thursday, Mar 22
Nintendo Wii Review: TMNT
It’s an interesting mechanic, though one that prevents any form of multi-player. Turtles can be swapped at will, or called in for that extra power move in desperate scenarios depending on whether or not the stage features the ability to do so. The focus of the game lies more with platforming...
Thursday, Mar 15
Gear Review: Pacific Design Nintendo DS Lite Street Case
If you’re like me, you’ve got 1,001 things to do on the weekends; free time just isn’t free. You’ve got to go out and shop for groceries, take kids places and wait for them to be done, go visit friends or relatives, etc.Now, I'm one of those men who likes my wife to do most of the driving, which give...
Gear Review: Pacific Design Nintendo DS Lite Street Case
Also, the drop pocket is designed to only hold two Nintendo DS games. However, the DS is also GameBoy Advance-compatible (in fact most of my games currently are GBA). The pocket as-is leaves you with little room to transport the much larger GBA cartridges and DS games together. A little bigge...
Monday, Sep 11
Nintendo DS Review: Star Fox Command
As in Metroid Prime Hunters, aiming is done entirely with the touch screen. This will feel natural for veterans of Hunters, but take some getting used to for others. You will get the hang of it, and find that the controls are very responsive.
Saturday, Sep 9
Nintendo DS Review: Madden NFL 07
The game definitely needs something new to move away from its somewhat sloppy game play that doesn't fall into the "classic" category, and new features using the touch screen are the right step. Madden NFL 07 is rated E (Everyone) by the ESRB. This game can also be found on: GBA, GameCube, PC,...
Wednesday, Aug 30
Nintendo DS Review: Break 'Em All
Touch control in Break 'Em All is tight and players can easily activate power-ups simply by tapping the on screen button. Using buttons to play is equally smooth, however it's not as easy because where touch screen which allows your paddle to immediately jump into position you need, butto...
Friday, Aug 4
Nintendo DS Review: Magnetica
Clearing levels is done by eliminating a certain amount of balls from the screen, and you'll be helped by various power-ups. Depending on the chosen mode of play, these vary from color-clearing spheres, slot machines, coins (for points), and more. Wireless, single card multi-player add...
Monday, Jul 24
Gaming Expo To Light Up Pennsylvania Aug. 26 and 27
This year's tentative list of tournaments include Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (arcade), Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox), Combat (Atari 2600), NFL Football (Intellivision), Bust Move 3000 (GameCube), Tekken 5 (Playstation 2), Hyper Street Fighter II (Anniversary Edition, PS2), K...
Thursday, Jun 29
Gamecube Review: Cars
It could be the shock that the developer took the time to create something other than a generic racer, but Cars is a fantastic video game. It's a rare feat that this is not only a successful movie-based game, but also a game that appeals to gaming's main 18-34 consumer market all the way down to...
Sunday, May 14
Nintendo DS Review: New Super Mario Bros.
Although the Dual Screens are not utilized for anything but space, the layout works great. It means the information is on the bottom screen, keeping the top screen free from clutter. Information such as progress, score, Star Coins, and reserve item box are all displayed on the bottom scree...
Monday, Jan 23
Nintendo DS Review: Tony Hawk - American Sk8land
Another game out of the famous Tony Hawk series, American Sk8land for Nintendo DS really isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Activision failed at trying to make a good-looking handheld Tony Hawk game.The characters on this game are really weird looking. During game play, the skaters have n...
Wednesday, Jan 18
Nintendo DS Review: Ping Pals
THQ has brought many Nintendo DS-owning chat lovers a game that consists of annoying bots and funny words that end up making you rich! Ping Pals game was bearable... if you have a great sense of humor and six other friends who won't kill you for making them play this game.This game had some pretty...
