As you may have seen or heard me discuss recently, I’ve finally picked up my first arcade cabinet. It’s a 2-slot Neo•Geo MVS, so it’s outside the scope of this column’s three-or-more-player focus, but it has me thinking about the arcade experience. Some of the best arcade games support lots of players: Gauntlet. Rampage. Daytona USA. Even the recent Pac-Man Battle Royale. Still, there’s one genre that eats quarters like no other: the side-scrolling beat-’em-up. READ MORE
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds is comfortable in its own skin. The side-scrolling beat-’em-up from Mages and 5pb knows it’s going to come across as very Japanese, so it just embraces it. The result is a game akin to a sugar rush; there’s not a whole lot of nutrient-rich depth here, but it’s certainly fun as a complement to a healthy gaming diet. READ MORE
In this episode, the crew talks about the fate of digital game purchases in the coming generation. Will there be an easy way to preserve the games we have now? We also discuss Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Crysis 3, Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien, Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds, Etrian Odyssey IV and the latest game news.
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Hosts: Jeff deSolla, Andrew Passafiume, Graham Russell, Henry Skey, Shawn Vermette.
Music: Podcast theme by Tom Casper.
There are a lot of game projects that just didn’t happen for one reason or another, but to me, it’s most heartbreaking when a game’s completely finished and just doesn’t see the light of day. Propeller Arena, a first-party flight combat game for the Dreamcast, is one of those games. Why didn’t it release? Well, it was a late-2001 game about planes flying around tall buildings, so it suffered the fate that the original Advance Wars avoided by a day: a world that just wasn’t ready to have fun with that setting. READ MORE
After reading our review of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, you just may be wanting to experience it for yourself. Well hey, we’re giving away a copy for the system of your choice: 360 or PS3!
The rules are as always:
We’ll draw a random winner from all the entries on the 1st and post it here. Good luck, and thanks for reading!
