Looking to get your dogfighting fix this year? You might want to check out a little title called Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. It will be a game full of action, excitement and dramatic camera angles, not to mention some pretty nice aerial combat. READ MORE
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Robert Kirkman’s comic series, The Walking Dead, is about zombies. Unsurprisingly, the team has heard many game pitches for the property, as, you know, the whole zombie thing. The hit AMC show probably didn’t dampen interest, either. Telltale snagged the license by wanting to make a game that wasn’t just about shooting and brains.
“We really wanted to focus on the human story,” said Telltale marketing director Richard Iggo. READ MORE
Nintendo’s certainly released board-game-style party games in the West. We’ve gotten eight Mario Party games (and one more’s on the way), and we also got Wii Party, a very similar outing. Still, there’s been one franchise in the genre that the company has largely kept in its pocket, never letting it see release out of Japan: the Itadaki Street series. With the release of Fortune Street, you may be wondering: what the heck is it?
Nintendo’s Star Fox 64 3D is, for all intents and purposes, a port. Unlike other efforts like Ocarina of Time 3D, there isn’t really that much of a visual and technological upgrade to the game. That’s okay, though, because the flight shooter genre absolutely shines in three dimensions.
That said, the company wouldn’t throw Star Fox on the system without a few extra flourishes, and it seems the company’s focus is the Download Play multiplayer mode. READ MORE