Since Jimmy White’s Whirlwind Snooker bar billiards and its many cousins have been re-created on pretty much every format going, and in the second quarter of 2008 it will make another appearance, this time on the Nintendo Wii. While it’s also coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and DS, the Wii version […]

One Piece: Unlimited Adventure tackles two challenges, and it does so reasonably well. First and foremost, it offers a good amount of fan service by way of its flashback-oriented storytelling. Second, it’s a somewhat-entertaining action-oriented adventure in it own right, with a light but amusing combat system and some fun boss battles. It’s also quite […]

SAN FRANCISCO–OK, so Nintendo’s upcoming Wii Fit might not be an all-in-one solution for transforming you into Brad Pitt (or Angelina Jolie for that matter), but that’s not what the game is supposed to do. We’ve had the Japanese version of the game in the office for a few weeks now, but today, on the […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Say “Square Enix,” and gamers will immediately think of the Final Fantasy series or another of the Japanese developer’s epic role-playing games. So it was a challenge for the company to concentrate on a small WiiWare game, according to game designers Toshiro Tsuchida and Fumiaki Shiraishi.

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Sierra’s strategy game Commanders: Attack of the Genos! borrows from many different sources but makes it all fit well in one package. The art deco style of all the vehicles, buildings, and units takes influence from the early 1900s, but the gameplay is a fairly family-friendly blending of StarCraft and Advance Wars.

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