Surviving on a deserted island can be tough work. Just watch any movie or show such as Castaway or Lost and you’ll get the idea. But, despite what the movies tell you, doing so in real life is even more difficult. If you don’t have the correct knowledge or skills...

  After over 30 years of videogame production, it seems as if truly original (and successful) genres are becoming harder to come by. And though unique gameplay ideas are becoming harder to conspire on traditional consoles, newer tactics have been implemented in the current generation in order to further innovate on...

The NBA 0x series, Sony’s in house project, had a very poor outing with the PS3 launch last year. It was also my first experience with this still very young basketball series. I didn’t give the poor outing of NBA 07 a great deal of thought, but as the release...

Warning: This Review Spares No One in its Use of Terrible Puns PIKAWHO?! On September 30, 1998 Pokémon Red & Blue spread across the states like the plague spread in the middle ages. Since, Pokémon has left its mark on a variety of systems including every handheld (Game Boy, Game Boy Color,...

If there is one genre that Nintendo has paved the way for in this current generation of handhelds and consoles, it’s puzzle games. With the unprecedented control schemes of both the DS and the Wii, Nintendo has succeeded in providing the perfect platforms for puzzling perfection. And though the Wii...

What was the first intuitive idea you thought of when Nintendo first announced its Dual Screen wonder, the Nintendo DS? Like many of you, I immediately imagined playing spinoffs of some of my favorite Real Time Strategy titles on a handheld and even fighting my friends using wireless internet. After...

Most sports games are good but notgreat. There are small things that have been added throughout the years toenhance the overall experience. The problem has always been that there havebeen many upgrades but many downgrades. For example: it always seems as if thecreators spend too much time on making the...

Although it’s difficult to choose, I would have to say that Intelligent Systems is one of my favorite development groups. It seems as though nearly everything that comes out of them is either pleasantly unique or highly polished (or both). Their diverse selection of franchises includes Metroid, Advance Wars, Fire...

Zelda fans, me included, are not an easy crowd to please. Always demanding nothing short of perfection, we complained about the infamous Wind Waker (2003, GameCube) fetch quest, its superfluous amount of sailing, and its measly six dungeons—and that’s not to mention the uproar some of us contributed to over...

In the future, all of the public parks have turned to wasteland, neglected by government and taxpayers alike.  An increasingly distraught nation turns to a surprisingly compassionate corporation for answers—and the answers they find come in a shiny metal skin.  Chibi-Robo, the product of years of toiling research at Citrusoft,...