Blast Corps, for the Nintendo 64, didn't seem to give much of a damn for accurate physics. You could drive on gas-giant Neptune, and it had the lowest gravity of any of the game's extraterrestrial levels (it should be the highest). But as GameXplain marvelously demonstrates, the map menu is jaw-droppingly true to life.Read more...     Kotaku Continue reading...

I hate Star Trek: The Video Game. I hate it so much. I just finished it and I'm still shaking at how revolting that ten hour experience was. I have no idea why this happened! No idea! Paramount was duplicitous in their role of providing high-quality Star Trek assets - namely, full access to the film's art and an original story that takes place between the two films - but...

Fruit Blast Mania (known as Fruit Mania in the U.K.) is a new iOS game from TeamLava and Storm8. It’s available now as a free download from the App Store, and carries additional in-app purchases. Fruit Blast Mania is a color-matching puzzler in the Diamond Dash mold — that is, its basic mechanic requires the player to spot groups of two or more like-colored objects that are orthogonally adjacent to...

Earlier this month, we brought you a preview of Storm8 and TeamLava's newest iOS game Fruit Blast Mania. This latest installment in the overall "Mania" franchise sees you collapsing colorful blocks to free baby critters or earn enough juice to move on. Now that we've had a chance to go hands-on with this bright puzzle game, we've found that it lives up to its predecessors while also packing a new...

Earlier this week, TeamLava and Storm8 unleashed Fruit Blast Mania on the iTunes App Store, a cute and colorful "Collapse-style" puzzle game that is sure to strip away all of your free time for the foreseeable future. After spending some time with the game and bringing you our full review, it's actually a surprise that we've been able to put the game down long enough to bring you some helpful...

Match three puzzle games are a dime a dozen on iOS, but Storm8's newest offering on iPhone and iPad looks to sweeten the genre. According to Storm8 and developer TeamLava, Fruit Blast Mania promises to offer game modes that we've never seen before, and players everywhere can now see whether or not that's the case via the game's launch on the iTunes App Store. Fruit Blast Mania comes as a...

Mobile-social game developer Storm8 today launched tile-matching game Fruit Blast Mania for iOS from its casual social label TeamLava, the third social arcade title from the Redwood City, Calif.-headquartered company. “When we decide to enter a genre, we decide not to be a one-hit wonder and will create multiple hits over time,” Perry Tam, co-founder and CEO of Storm8, told Inside Mobile Apps. “This is a great example of how...

Xbox maker's mark to be used for game software; company also snaps up GlacierBlastGame.com domain.   It appears Microsoft is preparing a new game called Glacier Blast. The company this week filed an application with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for the name, covering "game software." Microsoft also picked up a related domain name--www.GlacierBlastGame.com--at the end of March. The website currently Continue reading...

"It’s been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else’s voice coming from Snake’s battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest." - David Hayter, talking movingly today in a must-read Twitter message about not playing the role of Snake (or Big Boss) in the next Metal Gear Solid. (We're assuming...

This is Capy Fine Racing GP, from Psychonauts and The Cave developers Double Fine, and the people behind Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Capybara Games. It will be released at PAX East, on floppy discs. More » Kotaku Continue reading...