The use of full motion video is getting pretty common place among Nintendo DS games, with the usual suspects such as the Final Fantasy series of games leading the way. Even the boxing game, K-1 World GP (Japanese import) utilizes FMV for its intro. Most of the time, these FMVs are CG spectacles, designed to [...]

If you have a game title that rhymes with chorela, you would be chuckling like me every time you see the box art for the game Coloris. Even the colour scheme reminds you of something related to the disease (diarrhea, anyone?). But one shouldn’t judge a game by the title or box art or a [...]

I totally forgot that I have the Japanese edition of Space Invaders Extreme sitting pretty in my Nintendo DS games library until Jonathan commented in my previous post. So how does it play with the Paddle Controller? A little better compared to playing Arkanoid DS (where it was moving too fast like Hammy on caffeine [...]

Rock, Paper, Scissors (a.k.a. jankenpon). That’s the name of the game for Zoids Battle Colosseum for the Nintendo DS. You start off the game straight into some dueling action; fans of various Zoid anime/manga series will know that duels are fought between giant mechanical war machines that resemble animals. Get past the first duel and [...]

This article could have been titled “How to Add Cheat Codes to Your R4DS?” as what am I about to describe to you is essentially that, but hey, I figured the title is eye-catching, so do bear with it . Produced by Taito to go along with its release of Arkanoid DS, the Paddle Controller [...]

The advantage of being a video games blogger (and a one who does his research) is that you’ll know what to answer when your other half points out to a Love and Berry arcade machine and asks what is it. That was exactly what happened while I was holidaying at Genting last weekend. To the [...]

I’ll put it straight up that I’m pretty inept when it comes to platform games and I avoid buying them because I’ll stop playing as soon as my first encounter with a level boss. That’s why I have not gotten round buying any of the Castlevania games and my library is only limited to New [...]

With China’s human rights records being in question, this year’s Olympics has the potential of eclipsing both the Atlanta and Greece Olympics in terms of controversy. As a refresher, a bomb exploded during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. And while there were no bombs in the 2004 Greece Olympics, the organizers had a 1.5 billion US [...]