Tag Archives: Arcade

Rocket League’s latest update added penalties for leaving casual matches early, and the change isn’t sitting well with some players.  The patch notes (opens in new tab) for update 2.01 outline the goals for this change, namely improving “the average match quality in casual playlists.” You won’t be penalized for …

The studio behind PowerWash Simulator is working on a spiritual successor to a very different cult-favorite series, along with the publisher behind Steamworld and other indie favorites. FuturLabs and Thunderful Games revealed their new partnership with an announcement on FuturLab’s official site (opens in new tab). It describes the new …

In the latest issue of Retro Gamer, the team chat with Granzella’s founder, Kazuma Kujo about the recently released R-Type Final 2. The celebrated creator reflects on how announcing R-Type Final 2 on April’s Fool Day caused confusion with excited fans: “For Japanese companies, April 1 can be considered the …

It looks like a new Super Monkey Ball game is on the way, according to an official listing from a government ratings board. The Australian Classification board formerly had a listing for Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, as spotted by Gematsu (opens in new tab). The listing has since been …

Rocket League is getting a 2D mobile spinoff called Rocket League Sideswipe, and it’s coming to iOS and Android devices later this year. Developer Psyonix announced (opens in new tab) the game today with a look at some alpha gameplay. Sideswipe is played in two-minute 1v1 or 2v2 matches where …

Some consider Altered Beast to be one of the best games to emerge from a ‘golden age’ of arcade play. Others will readily decry it as an awful experience, riddled with bad mechanics, poor movement, and inconsistent combat. UK magazine ‘Mega’ included it in their top ten worst Mega Drive …

Imagine an arcade filled with rows of rectangular pods. As you climb into one and slide the door shut, the only illumination in the otherwise black interior comes from a huge monitor and a cornucopia of blinking buttons. In front of you there’s a joystick and throttle, along with two …

In games, nothing can be said to be certain except death and well, mostly that. Death as a consequence of failure has been a part of games since the days of Spacewar!, and what came after has stayed pretty much the same: a Game Over screen, a Continue? prompt (maybe …

Everything’s changed in the seven years since Shadow Complex first hit Xbox 360. Metroidvania games, once an endangered species, are now plentiful. Nolan North was still only in about half of all games rather than pretty much all of them. And everyone thought Shadow Complex was just the beginning of …

Long before people even used the phrase “indie game,” Ska Studios was pumping out unusual, artful, deeply awesome independently developed games. While they gained their biggest following thanks to Xbox 360 games like The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and Charlie Murder, they’ve been pumping out something new almost every year since …