Some games get a mobile port where the touch interface doesn't really add anything. Other games actually benefit from the tension of having to use multiple touch controls simultaneously where the effect is enhanced compared t...

Xbox Live Indie title Nyan Cat Adventure is now available for iOS. A free version gives you the basic "Party" mode and the traditional Nyan Cat to play with, while the $0.99 version gives you more Nyans and more modes. I gave it a spin to see what has changed from 21st Street Games' XBLIG version, and to see whether or not it still induces seizures on the smaller screen real estate.

InterWave Studios' implementation of RTS gameplay in their multiplayer FPS Nuclear Dawn has made it quite attractive to fans of both genres. The very idea of building structures, defenses and issuing commands to other pl...

What do you do when you're a 17-year-old RTS player who is tired of all the games out there? You make your own, of course. You just jump on the Internet and gather together a network of fans to help you make a videogame, and ...

Let the headline swirl in your head a bit, then come back. Indie studio Stabyourself.net has a knack for recreating classic 80s games pixel for pixel but with the application of modern physics for a wild new take on an old f...

Noitu Love 2: Devolution is a well-regarded indie game that's been available for quite some time, but it's only now about to appear on Steam. Though this new version won't pack any new features per se when it releases on Apri...

Can I just say, first of all, if you show me a toucan in a game, I want to ride that toucan. Players might be as frustrated as ever that Roman centurions are riding mechs and tropical birds while they spend time eating their ...

It pained me to come down hard on No Time To Explain back in my review last year, but some design issues and bugs left me no choice. The silly time-traveling platformer has since been Greenlit on Steam, and released -- it's ...

[Getting It Right is a monthly series in which I take a look at the elements that make up a classic game. What were the key ingredients that set it apart and make it hold up to this day? Read on to find out.] Some of th...

When No More Heroes: Red Zone comes to the PlayStation 3, it's going to bring something extra for the perpetual masturbators of the gaming population. "Viewer Mode" (which we briefly heard about before) allows you to get a cl...

Itching to get your hands on Travis Touchdown in HD? Well, wait no longer, you smelly little urchin! Konami has popped up a demo for the Move-powered assassin romp and on the North American PlayStation Network, available for ...

No More Heroes returns to your life as a free-to-play social mobile game. Something tells me that the unique blend of F2P, social gaming, and the mobile market isn't having NMH lovers jumping for joy. In fact it seems perfect...

When No More Heroes was first released on the Wii back in 2008, I'd never played anything quite like it, and that was a good thing. In fact, Anthony Burch and I thought it was a great thing, and plenty of other gamers seemed ...

At the time of this writing, I have just finished No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle after a 16-hour marathon play through, with occasional breaks to nap and go to the bathroom. This is not the best way to go about playing ...

Then get ready to pay out the wazoo! Grasshopper Manufacture is selling the original Blood Berry beam katana replica used as reference in the development of No More Heroes. Right now, the auction stands at $3600, but with ove...

We saw a bit of the free-to-play shooter No Man's Land at E3. It's the first of its kind: a console FTP shooter. No Man's Land is not a crack on PS Home. It's actually a pretty ambitious undertaking, and it might be worth che...

Last year the impossible happened: Nitronic Rush dethroned San Francisco Rush 2049 for being the best futuristic racer with "Rush" in the title. Now the developer is going to do a retail victory lap with spiritual successor ...

Much like the Club Nintendo WiiWare Little Mac vs. Doc Louis!!, Japan is getting an exclusive for their Gold/Platinum reward -- a dungeon crawler named Nintendoji for DsiWare/3DS eShop. It features a card based battle system,...

According to my Doctor Who calendar, the time of year where children are encouraged to support obesity by leaving cookies out for a fat burglar who magically fits in chimneys is almost upon us. I'm preparing by trying to make...

Next in line for "Playing Catch Up to the Catch Up" is my Wii U premiere video. True be told, it isn't the really the premiere video, that honor belongs to this live stream (I brand them as "Live Boredom"). Click that to wat...

Great news Android users. Ninjatown: Trees of Doom is now on Android. And not only is it available for the low low price of zero but with the latest update also comes with a host of fresh features. Players can now e...

The game is called Ninja Turtles. The thumbnail is a picture of the Ninja Turtles. My friends, these are not the Ninja Turtles. Dear God. Some clown must have had five minutes to kill and decided to play a big joke on iOS use...

Cute, little ninjas. This has been something that many of us have wanted to see because let's face it, the concept is too damn cute to ignore. It's now finally happening thanks to Poland-based Alien Worm Studios with their u...

While the initial announcement made the rounds a few days ago, Tecmo Koei has given more details on Dead or Alive 5 Plus for PlayStation Vita. Scheduled to launch in March 2013, this version will naturally offer touch-based m...

You've probably played this game. Any well-versed gamer should have played Ninja Gaiden in some form at least once before. It was a big deal on the original Xbox as it marked the return of the classic Ninja Gaiden. Later we s...

Back in 2010 Tecmo Koei promised us a darker, bloodier Ninja Gaiden and that's exactly what the E3 floor demo is all about.  The buckets of blood are back in full force as Ryu rips every ugly thing in the alley to shr...

After the extremely sour-tasting Ninja Gaiden III that was, in my mind, a disaster in nearly every way possible, it's a bit hard to trust Team Ninja without Tomonobu Itagaki at the helm. Nonetheless, Team Ninja is still extre...

In case you didn't get a chance to play the slightly better Wii U port of the underwhelming Ninja Gaiden 3, you'll have your chance soon on the Xbox 360 and PS3 come April 2nd. This version will basically be the same as the ...

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 ports of Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge are due out on April 2, but before full release, Team Ninja has put out a demo for this updated take on the action title. The demo itself features gameplay ...

Ninja Gaiden 3 has received its first downloadable content package, available as a bundle or as a selection of paid and free downloads. They include weaponry missing from the main game, and items for the multiplayer mode.&nbs...

Among the news at the recent Nintendo Direct conference -- where the PictoChat-ish app Swapnote was announced -- a new title called Nimble Sakura Warrior for the 3DS eShop was revealed. The game places you in the role of a w...

Tiny Tower developer NimbleBit's new game, Nimble Quest, has been chipping away at my downtime these past few weeks. It's a twist on the classic Snake in which you try to get close to enemies in order to fire off attack...

Here's something new for all of you health-conscious Kinect owners. Coming this holiday season, Nike and Microsoft are teaming up to present Nike + Kinect Training. This new title will not just bring you an interactive and pe...

Remember Nightsky? That pretty awesome game by Nicalis that hit the 3DS eShop last year? Well it looks like Europeans are finally getting the chance to experience this whimsical puzzler on February 21st, for €9.99. I can...

Full disclosure: I missed out on NiGHTS when it was originally released on the Saturn. I had the demo disc, but never played it, and the PlayStation 2 release never hit North America. Now that it's available via download on console, I figured I'd take a crack at it and see what all the hype was about back in the day. I was not prepared for this game.

Nights Into Dreams, the 1996 Sega Saturn game that was re-released on PS2 in Japan, at long last will finally see a new iteration in North America. I got a chance to get my hands on this shiny high definition version at this...

[Update: don't miss the NieR-centric piano concert celebrating the album's release on USTREAM at 5:30 PM on March 20th, Japan time!]Yes, we're still talking about the soundtrack from NieR. After the hugely successful NieR Tri...

It's a free DLC-fest for the PlayStation Network today, as Draggle, the adorable guy pictured above, is dropping for free on the PSN. If you aren't familiar with how Ni No Kuni works, it's basically like Pokémon. Aroun...

So, that there Ni no Kuni... looks pretty good, right guys? I bet you'd love to play it in English, huh? How badly do you want it? Do you want it? Yes, you do! Oooooh, yes, you do! Good boy! Now, fetch the ball! Go get it! Th...

Tomorrow, January 22, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch finally arrives on US shelves. The PlayStation 3 role-playing game is a collaboration between developer Level-5, and animation house Studio Ghibli -- two companies th...

For months now, fans, or prospective fans who don't own a PS3, have been clamoring for a localization of the DS version of Ni No Kuni, which Namco Bandai shut down to due "translation issues and costs regarding the Wizard's C...

The NHL franchise has always done well, but some fans still feel that it's getting a bit stagnant as of late. With this next iteration in the series, EA looks to introduce a few new enhancements that should change ...

One of the weird things about NHL 13 was its newly implemented first-person fighting system. Well, that system is getting removed because it takes the player too much out of the game. In its stead, some of the tech from EA's...

There's one deal on PlayStation Plus this week that just seems too good to pass up. Starting tomorrow, Critter Crunch will be available for only $1.40. At that price there's almost no excuse not to be regurgitating color...

Of the four major North American sports, hockey ranks behind only football in terms of its physicality. It’s a brutal game played at high speed; finesse players make headlines with their graceful goal-scoring, but bigge...

Hockey is definitely not North America’s most popular sport, but even non-fans can recognize that the past two entries in EA Sports’ NHL franchise stand among the all-time great sports videogames. But with its sim...

EA Sports’ NHL franchise has a distinguished pedigree -- the past two games in the series have earned 19 “sports game of the year” awards from various videogame publications and Web sites, and the games have...

When the most recent NHL lockout led to the cancellation of the entire 2004–05 hockey season, the popularity of the sport in America -- which was already not that high to begin with when compared to the other three majo...

It's always seemed that I'm doomed to failure in any game which takes its cues from a competitive sport, but that's not kept me from trying time and again over the years. And in that time I've found that pure simulation is t...

The long-in-the-works high-definition revival of NFL Blitz has finally arrived, less than three months after EA officially announced it last fall. It’s an idea that gamers of all stripes could get behind; after all, you...

No time to reload, no need -- this was the attitude of arena first-person shooters in the '90s. Before Valve and Infinity Ward stepped in and shook things up, we PC gamers were more than content with Quake III and Unreal To...

[Update: Keighley has produced another slide in which Pachter predicts that "Durango" will be the generation leader because it has a TV tuner and Skype. Also, there will be no more publisher bankruptcies. Yeah, fat chance.] W...

In addition to the weekly sales Nintendo has been running on the eShop, it seems as if Nintendo is going to celebrate the release of New Super Mario Brothers 2 with a few extra 3DS Virtual Console discounts. Super Mario Bros,...

Keychains are one thing, but these? Now you're playing dirty, Japan! A pair of New Super Mario Bros.-branded figurines were released recently in Japan. These sets produce sound to recreate two very iconic moments in Mario his...

Oh ScrewAttack, you say the things I think in such a delightful manner. Please Nintendo, no more New Super Mario Bros. games.

Do you have a million coins yet in New Super Mario Bros 2.? Here's your chance to let Nintendo know, as they're offering an "official certificate" to players who take a picture of them with their coin tally, and submit it to ...

If you download New Super Luigi U on the Wii U eShop this week, you'll be able to earn double coins (40) for completing the survey for it on Club Nintendo by August 1. Also, if you check a box at the end of the survey, you'll...

[Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull] Aside from Chibi-Robo!, every game in the New Play Control! line of GameCube-to-Wii remakes has been brought over to North America... with the exception of Pikmin 2. For some ...

New Love Plus is the 3DS sequel to that one DS game where you could form deep, intimate relationships with anime girls. It made some people do crazy things, like marrying their virtual girlfriends. This video isn't that craz...

As the iconic Mel Brooks once said: "It's good to be the king!" Well, sorta. You might get all the power, all the gold, and all the women, but you have to deal with, you know, problems and stuff too. If I had a motto for New Little King's Story, it would be, "It's mostly good to be the king...mostly."