Stuffed into the aisle-side of the rather tight-knit Ignition Entertainment booth were a couple of kiosks holding one of the more artistic looking games for the Nintendo Wii platform. Muramasa: The Demon Blade is the second game from the makers of Odin Sphere to carry a 2-D side-scrolling aesthetic and hand-painted look to both characters […]
This interview has been edited for length and content, with intent to condense, while not rephrasing, points made within it. Joseph Olin is a man you immediately want to impress. As the acting President of the Academy of the Interactive Arts and Sciences, he presides over the biggest organization gunning for the artistic expansion and […]
Beneath an opaque, wall-sized banner showing an over-exuberant model having too much fun with his Nintendo DS, lay a trio of unassuming kiosks boasting one of the most enjoyable and open-ended hand-held games of this generation, Scribblenauts. Unprofessional of me to pass judgment at this point in the development cycle, I know, but a simple […]
Thankfully able to avoid the four assumedly lonely men dressed up in Halloween-store Turtle costumes, I landed a quick session with the reptile-on-reptile Wii-brawler, TMNT: Smash Up in the waning E3 hours. As if the abbreviation of the famous “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” moniker isn’t enough of an indication, the game takes its visual look […]