Mario Kart
Split Screen Gaming: The Rise And Fall
As someone who grew up playing video games, there’s an itch that no modern day game has been able to scratch. I’m talking about split screen couch co-op gaming. Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s as a gamer, we all had friends and siblings with whom we would play games with. It could have just been passing the controller around or watching someone play while you sat, but the best thing ever was to play together. Huddled around a small television, laughing, calling out each other for screen cheating and then getting scolded by your parents because you were making too much noise is honestly one of my fondest memories not just related to gaming but in general. Split Beginnings It all started back with GoldenEye on the N64 that had a 4 player split screen deathmatch mode. The mode was so po...
Nintendo is finally coming to Smartphones
his morning Nintendo announced a partnership with DeNA (pronounced “D-N-A”) to deliver new titles featuring Nintendo characters to “smart devices and bring a new multi-device membership service” to market worldwide. This is the news that Nintendo fans have been waiting the better part of a decade to hear. As our own Anthony Domanico put it in an editorial back in 2011, “Nintendo could single-handedly revolutionize Android gaming…but they don’t wanna.” Apparently the sheer size of the smartphone and tablet market has finally overwhelmed whatever concerns Nintendo had about cannibalizing its own hardware sales. It seems shocking that it took them this long to appreciate that position, considering it was back in 2011 that the tide turned and smartphone gaming first overtook the traditional ha...
Angry Birds’ version of Mario Kart released
Rovio Entertainment launched Angry Birds Go! yesterday, a free-to-play kart racer spinoff of the Angry Birds series. This game came out yesterday for iOS, Windows Phone 8, Blackberry 10 and for Android devices on Google Play Store. Like various other free-to-play games, Angry Birds Go! is financed by various microtransactions. If you look into its iTunes product page, you’ll find that users can spend $2.60-$65 of real-world money to buy additional items. “The game was “built from the ground up” as a free-to-play title and features upgradable karts, numerous characters, and special powers in a “fully rendered” 3D world. Gamers can play as the birds or the pigs throughout various game modes like Time Boom and Fruit Splat.” “Angry Birds G...