Tag Archives: Arcade

If you’re familiar with ZEN Studios’ various pinball entries such as other Zen Pinball titles and the fantastic Pinball FX games, you already know that the base gameplay is great. The questions for Zen Pinball 3D, then, are what does the 3DS contribute to the formula, and are the tables …

High Horse is a rotating opinion column in which GamesRadar editors and guest writers are invited to express their personal thoughts on games, the people who play them and the industry at large. By now, chances are you’ve heard some of the uproar surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act, or …

Plus Alpha is a weekly column that explores life in Japan from the perspective of American expatriate and game-industry veteran Jarik Sikat. Having worked in numerous areas of the game industry since 1994, Sikat relocated to Japan in 2010. Think fast: If you had 24 hours in Japan, what do …

Ask GR Anything is a weekly Q%26A column that answers questions submitted by readers (as well as questions we’re particularly curious about ourselves). Got a burning question about games or the industry? Ask us in the comments below and you may just get it answered! We’d like to preface this …

Game music has been a passion of ours roughly since, oh, 1985, but in the past 10 years, it’s come to mean something more. Don’t get us wrong, we still love the beepatronic music of the 8- and 16-bit periods (and the wave of chiptune artists it inspired), but the …

In fact it sounds like every big silly thing you’ve ever thought awesome in your life, combined with – to paraphrase Hello – every film you%26rsquo;ve ever loved as a kid, cut together into some crazy montage.Read on,andI will relay more details, and no doubt flap excitedly throughout. Joe Danger: …

Perhaps not everyone got the memo. See, power-ups are meant to be a good thing. They are, by definition, supposed to power you up. As in ‘not power you down’. So why be so cruel as to program things into your game that can be collected by the player that …