Three years ago, Piyotama came out on the PlayStation 3. A quirky little puzzler, Piyotoma had you staring at a screen filled with eggs and trying to match four of a kind. IGN liked it and said you should pick it up if you were in the mood for a puzzler. Original post by Arts-and-Entertainment:Animation [...]
If Arctic Adventures: Polar's Puzzles seems strangely familiar, that's because it should be. Last December saw the release of Polar Panic, a puzzle action game on XBLA and PSN starring Polar, who used blocks of ice to crush evil loggers and such. Polar Panic also featured a less confrontational Puzzle mode, which has now made [...]
A lot of people screwed up in 2008 and missed Valkyria Chronicles. A delightful little strategy role-playing game, Valkyria Chronicles merged third-person shooters, anime cutscenes, and hardcore strategy gameplay into one watercolor PlayStation 3 package that many loved and a lot skipped. Now, the sequel is upon us and it's a PSP exclusive. Valkyria Chronicles [...]
Long before I started my career here at IGN, I distinctly remember sitting with my friend and fiercely debating the pros and cons of purchasing the original Kingdom Hearts (we weren't made of money, after all). On the one hand, the game had sweet Final Fantasy cameos and awesome character designs. Original post by Arts-and-Entertainment:Animation [...]
Age of Zombies may be adding a time-travel angle to the gaming cliche that the undead are becoming, but don't expect to run into any temporal causality loops or grandfather paradoxes here. This PSP Mini game is simple, more than a little stupid, and a lot of fun. It gives you a good feeling of [...]
There are some games that, even with a layer of glitter dusted over the top, simply can't hide the slapdash, unrefined nature that lies beneath. Instances of aesthetic competence give way to confusing level design; promises of action-packed combat go unfulfilled as you're mired in listless, tired sword swinging. Mimana Iyar Chronicles, a shoddy action-RPG [...]
It's one thing to save a princess from the clutches of evil, but how can you hope to save one from herself? In Fat Princess, the queen-in-waiting cannot control her own insatiable appetite, putting untold pressure on the fine stitching that valiantly holds her poor dress onto her ever-expanding body. Original post by Arts-and-Entertainment:Animation Articles [...]
A game like Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3 has to do two things to be a success. It has to deliver on the Naruto name by providing content that will appeal to fans of the popular anime series, and it has to make fighting as the titular blond ninja and his friends or foes [...]
FIFA has become the dominant football series on the PlayStation Portable, thanks in part to the release of FIFA 10 last year. Now, less than six months later, 2010 FIFA World Cup has arrived, and while it adds little in the way of meaningful improvements to its predecessor, it does a good job of re-creating [...]
When your job is to determine the fate of the world, it's important that your companions and your swordplay are able to back you up. The strength of Hexyz Force is a battle system that lets you be both impulsive and strategic, smiting your foes thoroughly without getting careless. Supported by a diverse cast and [...]