I must say that with WFC Connectivity, Speed Racer: The Video Game would have been up there contending with Mario Kart DS for the best racing game title on the Nintendo DS. Admittedly, that thought didn’t cross my mind before I started reviewing the game. Likewise for many movie tie-ins and in-fact many Nintendo DS [...]

Iron Man for the Nintendo DS has been great experience so far, and while I’m playing to unlock the “One Man Army” mode, which I think will get you to blow up more stuff compared to the story mode, the story mode seems to be intriguing on its own. For one, there is that research [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hokuto no Ken, otherwise known as Fist of the North Star, sits near the top of my list of favourite manga series. A violent and often graphic martial arts manga, it’s probably the only comic book which has the Bruce Lee-like protagonist going a-ta-ta-ta! all the time, just like the legend himself. Anyways, I wouldn’t [...]