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Review: Snood for iPhone
Snood is a “match-three” puzzle game from Electronic Arts. First released in 1996, the colorful puzzle game has graced multiple platforms and has become arguably the most successful casual game in history (save Solitaire). EA brings the classic gameplay elements to the iPhone and embellishes the title with new modes and features, making this version of Snood more than a simple port.
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Review: Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
If you are a gamer that has roots in the earliest Shin Megami Tensei series games, I’m sure you’ve already pre-ordered this, knowing exactly what to expect. Likewise, the savvy gamer that jokingly calls this game SMT: Etrian Odyssey surely knows what they’re buying. This is a big, console-sized dungeon crawler in a little tiny package, and it gets back to the series’ roots. If you’re looking for that, this is your game.
On the other hand, if you came into Atlus games later, and find that most of your enjoyment of the Persona series was the social links and the cute girls, and you found yourself running through dungeons to get to the next story bit, you might want to try Strange Journey before you buy. Or read our review.
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Hackers a Real Threat in Virtual Battleground
The wildly popular online game World of Warcraft is riddled with irreconcilable rivalries.
But in a different battlefield, game developers and security researchers work to protect the world’s largest massive multiplayer online gaming community from the growing ranks of hackers determined to plunder every last Troll and Night Elf.
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Nintendo DSi XL Coming to U.S. Soon
Nintendo plans to launch its DSi XL hand-held game console in Europe and the United States soon.
Nintendo said Friday that the device was unveiled in Japan in November and will hit the European market on March 5 and U.S. stores on March 26.
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Preview: Transformers: War For Cyberton
Transformers: War For Cyberton on the Nintendo DS is being made by Vicarious Visions, the veteran studio behind other, recent well-regarded portable 3D Transformers action games. Like the previous ones, the new entry will be sold in Autobot and Decepticon versions, though this time the games won’t link to a web-based meta-game war between the owners of each.
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EA Working on Groundbreaking New Project
EA and the studio behind The Sims are expanding and creating a new development team in Salt Lake City to work on a “groundbreaking” new project, the publisher announced.
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Review: Aargon
If you are looking for an easy and pansy puzzle game, then this is the wrong place to search for it. Aargon is more difficult than the usual game on offer in the puzzle genre, but as difficult also means challenging, it packs quite a punch.
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N.E.O Online Launch Date Set
PlayOMG has announced that N.E.O Online will officially launch on March 2, complete with cash item give aways and more.
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Exclusive Q&A with Kevin Xu, IGG’s COO
IGG has been growing like crazy over the last few years, and we wondered about what goes on behind the doors of this very popular gaming publisher.
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Alpha Protocol Release Date Finalized
After a couple of delays, Sega has finally firmed up the release date for Obsidian espionage RPG Alpha Protocol: gamers can grab it May 28 in Europe, or June 1 in North America. The game has seen a bit of a troubled development cycle, so it’s great to see a final date at last.
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