Kid Icarus

Pandora’s Tower needs some support

If this week’s UK chart was a tower then Nintendo’s Pandora’s Tower would still be on the doorstep – it makes its chart appearance at a very poor #38. This is a slight surprise – even GAME are stocking this one and reviews have been pretty good. Maybe...

Singing when you’re winging

There are four new entries in the top 40 this week but none of them have been able to tackle FIFA Street from the top spot. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City – Capcom’s first western-developed Resident Evil – leaps in at #2. That’s followed by Mass Effect 3,...

Raccoon City’s AI needs brains

Capcom seemingly learnt nothing from the forgettable Resident Evil: Outbreak series on PlayStation 2 – Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has been getting some terrible reviews, including a 3/10 from gamesTM. GamesMaster also reviewed it this month but didn’t give it a score as they weren’t able to...

The definitive history of Kid Icarus

1986: Kid Icarus released on NES/Famicom 1989: Pit stars in Saturday morning cartoon Captain N: The Game Master 1989: Pit appears in GameBoy Tetris during Game B’s end sequence 1990: Pit cheers on racers in F1-Race on GameBoy 1991: Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters released on GameBoy...

E3: Nintendo’s 3D future

Nintendo’s E3 conference started off with a video of Zelda, now titled fully Zelda: Skyward Sword. Here, the Motion Plus is used to give Link free movement of his sword – at one point during the video Link waved it in circles to make a door with eyes...