It takes a lot for me to use my Kinect nowadays.  Most of the games lose their appeal very quickly or just don’t respond well to the Kinect camera.  Many of times, it kind of sits there as a novelty in my house.  The most usage it gets is when I’m too lazy to strap a head set on for some multi-player...

RRRRRRRIIIIIIIDDDDDGGGGGGEEEEEEE RRRRRAAAACCCCCEEEEERRRR! Well, actually that is a lie. Sega Rally Online Arcade is a downloadable rally game from – yes, you guessed it, Sega – that channels arcade racing games of old while adding a new coat of paint to the package. Although it is easy to become...

  Over the last few weeks, some troubling news for arcade gaming aficionados hit the Internet. California’s Arcade Infinity and New York’s Chinatown Fair have closed. For many new-generation console gamers, this news may not be of much significance. However, for those who have stuck with...

One thousand bullets:  not in the game itself, mind you – but on the screen all at once.  Welcome to danmaku. Danmaku, literally meaning “bullet curtain,” is a type of arcade top-down or side-scrolling shoot-em-up that pits a player against wave after wave of screen-filling orbs of doom,...

The sound of arcades might be long dead and gone, but the games will live on in our memories.  Hydro Thunder was one game that consumed countless quarters, and made us late for countless meetings. Thank goodness, someone else has lived this life and decided to bring back the boat racing game of...

Death By Cube, Premium Agency/Square-Enix’s dual-joystick shooter, is heading over to the Xbox Live Arcade today! Priced at 800 Microsoft Points, this omnidirectional shooter will have you killing…erm, sorry…destroying cube shaped robots with a whole arsenal of different weapons that you...

In an interesting move, Konami is releasing Puzzle Chronicles on February 18, 2010 for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. Wait, that’s not interesting. What’s really interesting is the fact that the game will be releasing on XBox and PS3 soon after that. Yep, these games are STARTING on the portable...

Publisher/Developer: Sony/ BigBig Studios Genre: Arcade Racer Price: $39.99 Verdict: A highly polished arcade racer that demonstrates the capabilities of Sony’s handheld. Pros: Fantastic presentation, online Infrastructure mode, plenty to unlock and do. Cons: Frustrating physics, controls take...

Escapist Games Limited announced today that they will be releasing a version of the PC/iPhone/PSP  popular Platypus for Xbox Live Indy Games.  Platypus is a side scrolling shooter made entirely out of clay.  So just like claymation, each object and frame has been tenderly sculpted to be the game that...

Developer/Publisher: Ubisoft / Ubisoft Singapore Platform: Xbox Live Arcade Genre: Brawler/ Beat ‘em up Price: 800 Microsoft Points Verdict: Thoughtful rehash with little actual content Pros: Wonderfully accurate remake with 3D graphics, great multiplayer Cons: Repetitive, no content besides the...