With the fighting game renaissance of the past few years, arcade sticks have made a comeback. Mad Catz revamped it’s product line introducing high end arcade sticks, a territory previously dominated by Japanese controller maker, Hori.
Hori is back now with a wireless arcade stick. It uses Bluetooth and provides about 40 hours of gameplay via it’s rechargeable battery. You can also plug it in to recharge the stick … [ Read More... ]
Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy.
Hyper Zone is rail shooter developed by HAL Laboratory. It was released for the Super Nintendo in 1991. Although it’s considered a shallow derivative title, I came to appreciate it thanks to an old friend.
Although we don’t normal cover sports games, we’ll make this exception due to the use of Kojima Production’s Fox Engine. For those out of the loop, it’s the graphics and game engine debuted by Hideo Kojima for Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. It’s the one he said will challenge western graphics engines. The first non-Kojima game that has been revealed to use the engine will be Pro Evolution … [ Read More... ]
A cover art for Battlefield 4 has been leaked, although this has not been confirmed, it appears to be legitimate. Not a lot to report here, so take a look for yourself.
Overall, it looks compelling, although one detail that does look suspect is the “TM” on the right appears to be pretty blurry, which could indicate a chop job/hoax. Battlefield 4 is being developed by DICE using the Frostbite … [ Read More... ]