A scene from 'Madden NFL Arcade,' courtesy of Electronic Arts
Let’s say you’re one of those folks who love football — the pageantry, the power, the hits and end-zone celebrations — but you’re not manic about it. The sport’s strategy mystifies…
“The Bigs 2″
Genre: Sports, arcade
Developer: Blue Castle Games
Publisher: 2K Sports
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and DS; PlayStations 2, 3 and Portable; Xbox 360
ESRB rating: “E10+” for everyone 10 and older
Price: $59.99
Grade: B+
Baseball is a game of strategy, strength and cunning where one play can turn…
“Punch-Out!!”
Genre: Sports
Developer: Next Level Games
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Wii
ESRB rating: “E10+” for everyone 10 and older
Price: $49.99
Grade: B+
Frankly, boxing games are kind of boring.
Well, most of them, anyway. The ones played just by mashing buttons over and over certainly are. Then Nintendo’s Wii came along with its wireless controllers…
When Microsoft announced it was revamping the Xbox 360 dashboard, concern, not congratulations, was the first thing I thought of voicing to Microsoft.
The update promised better graphics, avatars, easier access to movie and TV downloads — in short, a more…
The memory upgrade coming for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Arcade console will not warrant a price increase, a spokesman for the company told Game Guy.
Microsoft announced it was giving the low-cost system more internal memory so it could handle the processing demands…
Soon, new Xbox 360 Arcade consoles will sport increased memory, thanks to processing demands made on the low-cost systems by the Xbox Live network upgrade.
The upgrade demands at least 256 megabytes of memory. Current Arcade consoles come out of the box with…
Today, life changes for Xbox 360 owners.
Or, rather, we should say “Live” changes.
Right now, millions of Xbox users are booting up their consoles and finding requests to download and install New Xbox Experience, the replacement interface for the six-year-old Xbox…
The rumors circulating this past week apparently were true: Microsoft intends to trim the price on its Xbox 360 consoles by $50.
This means the entry-level Arcade edition, which has no hard drive, will cost $199 — the lowest price ever…
Virtual pugilism is about to enter a whole new level of … well, weird.
The game “FaceBreaker,” now in development, promises arcade-style boxing with punches so over-the-top hard they rearrange opponents’ faces.
Literally.
Electronic Arts announced the title this week and calls it “irreverent fun.”…
