Archive for: Namco

The Tekken Factor: First Impressions

Well here we go again, another established fighting game in the beat em up genre making another appearance within the same year as another fighting game in the beat em up genre making another appearance……still with me? Basically what I’m trying to promote here is the fact that Tekken is back with it’s sixth instalment in the series (not including Dark Resurrection), and looks to make up for lost time in order to compete with February’s release of Street Fighter IV. From first impressions it plays and looks exactly how a Tekken has always done, the characters have retained their signature moves, the red mist hit detection is again present, even down to the fact that all of the characters from past games have minced their way back into the arena; added with a few new fresh-faced punching bags, guess it should be the best of all right? Well lets run down a few of the newest key features from the game that I have come across so far, and have the feedback coming from me; a simple boy with his trusty laptop sitting in a kitchen with milk and cookies, ah the simple pleasures.

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iPhone showing some muscle

This really isn’t a review or preview but more of just a “fly over” of some of the  iPhone games that are available from just a couple of developers on the AppStore.  Keep in mind I just found these, these aren’t really advertised, for what reason I am unaware. I’ll stop now, just take a quick look and some of these dirt cheap games.

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