Almost the last chance for publishers to get a few downloadable games out in time for the holidays...
WiiWare -- Two titles this week. The stylish, slyly satirical Frobot pits an Afro-sporting robot against The Man in a sci-fi 70's universe, with a bonus "multiplaya" arena mode; a free demo is available so you can sample the funk. Inkub is a tower defense game where the player must protect incubating organisms against an invasion of hostile microorganisms.
Wii Virtual Console -- Nice to see this platform getting some love again lately, and this week a Nintendo 64 classic arrives for holiday family fun -- Mario Party 2!
DSiWare -- Four new titles arrive. Digital Leisure brings the least well-known of the Don Bluth/Rick Dyer laserdisc games to the DSi with Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp. Cosmo Fighters is a one-on-one or tag-team fighting game, with online play and free temporary sharing so only one player needs to own the game. Paul's Monster Adventure has an interesting concept -- the player must help restore boss monsters' health and fend off well-meaning would-be heroes to restore balance to the land. Just SING! Christmas Vol. 2 puts more holiday karaoke on the DSi.
XBox Live Arcade -- Three varied games last week. Konami's coin-op X-Men game arrives, with all the licensing snags worked out to bring this scrolling Marvel beat-'em-up home. id Software brings Quake Arena Arcade to XBLA for classic multiplayer action. And Microsoft brings a classic Eastern strategy game to market with The Path of Go.
Game Room -- Four new games debuted recently. Coin-op arcade games include Atari's Food Fight, a personal favorite of mine, and Konami's M.I.A. Intellivision fans get late INTV Corp. release Spiker! Volleyball, and Atari also releases the 2600 version of Warlords.
PS3 on PSN -- Two new games last week. Marvel Pinball is a pinball game featuring Stan Lee's classic comic book characters. Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves is a LittleBigPlanet spinoff platformer that supports the Playstation Move controller and EyeToy camera in conjunction with the control pad, requiring at least two players.
PSOne Classics on PSN -- Silent night. Wholly night. Keeping my fingers crossed for the new year!
Monday, December 20, 2010
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What? Dragon's Lair II comes to DSi before iPhone? @$%&*!! (Sorry but I still have just the plain DS and I needed to vent.)
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