Nintendo adds colour-matching to its spin on the sport.
The first Mario Tennis took the buttoned-up demeanour of white-clad Wimbledon and smothered it in the Mushroom Kingdom’s candied charms, reimagining the sport as a power-attack-laden duel. Subsequent games poured on the gimmickry, and while Mario Tennis Open isn’t quite a stripped-down sim, it’s a step removed from past excesses of custom courses and minigames.
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Bungie to receive $2.5 million bonus per game if gamerankings.com score 90 or more.
A 27-page, four game contract between Activision and Bungie has been revealed in full as part of the ongoing legal dispute between the Call Of Duty publisher and Infinity Ward's co-founders.
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How Ninja Theory is allaying fan fears by retaining the devilish core of Capcom’s series.
The news that Ninja Theory was handling the development of DMC: Devil May Cry was met with fan responses ranging from consternation to outrage. Hideki Kamiya’s finger-twisting series defined the modern Japanese action game, even if Bayonetta did steal its crown.
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Illustrator Jon Caplin's first game is an homage to Bullfrog's 1989 classic
While Odin and Zeus's adherents might reasonably struggle to agree on which deity would win in a fight, it's commonly agreed that Populous is the true god of god games. Designer and illustrator Jon Caplin is well aware of this, and has created his own offering to Bullfrog's genre-defining 1989 classic in the form of Reprisal.
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