Cyber Gadget, a Japanese company that designs video game console paraphernalia, has recently announced a new retro game system called Retrofreak. The details translate as follows: Retrofreak will allow you to play video game software from no less than 11 different types of cartridges via an adapter that is compatible with retro games, all with a single machine. Note: games may not play properly in...
Tetris/Tetris Axis Developer: Hudson Publisher: Nintendo Genre: Puzzle Platform: Nintendo 3DS(reviewed) Release: 2/10/11 Overview Throughout my gaming life, I’ve run into Tetris over and over again. Tetris on the GameBoy, Tetris Sphere on the Nintendo 64, click-wheel Tetris on my old iPod, hell even Tetris on an arcade machine in Japan. Needless to say, I, much like many people, am a fan of Tetris...
Over the weekend, Hudson Soft tweeted that Bloody Roar 5 was an actual thing and would be coming out in 2012. Of course fans cheered loudly, but now we must wonder if this bit of news was too good to be true. Rumors have now began circulating that HudsonSoftLtd’s Twitter may have been hacked or may just have been a fan page for the dying developer, meaning Bloody Roar 5 might have never exis...
In extremely surprising news, a favorite fighting game from the past appears to be getting another release in the series! Hudson was completely purchased by Konami earlier this year and Konami has had the company working on creating social titles for Konami’s brands. But it seems that Hudson has a few of their own titles that they are still going to be working on as today the Hudson Twitter ...
Sports Island 3D Publisher: Hudson Soft/Konami Developer: Hudson Soft/Konami Platform: 3DS Release Date: 16/6/2011 Genre: Sports Price: $49.97AUD (Buy Here) Overview With the release of the Nintendo Wii, and of Wii Sports, mimicry of popular (or in some cases not so popular) sports swept through living rooms across the globe. This spawned a series of clone sporting games to litter the shelves of t...
When Konami acquired Hudson a couple of months ago, it seemed unclear just what would happen to their line-up of scheduled releases, both for the 3DS and other consoles. In the release calender in Japan’s Famitsu magazine it has now been confirmed that all of Hudson’s projects have officially been canceled. This means that the upcoming 3DS games such as Bomberman, the new 3D version of...
Hudson’s sports series is making its first foray onto the 3DS, through Deca Sports Extreme (or as it’s otherwise known elsewhere, Sports Island 3D). As such, the game has been giving a trailer showcasing each of the ten sports on offer. That’s right ten sports: Soccer, Tennis, Basketball, Ice Hockey, Snowball Fighting, Sumo Wrestling, Bowling, Snowmobile Racing, Sport Blowgun an...
With last weeks announcement of Konami acquiring Hudson Entertainment, we now have the sad reality that Hudson Entertainment will officially be closing for good at the end of this month. This grim news was announced officially by CEO Morgan Haro in a blog post that recently went up. While Morgan specifically stated that it was just Hudson Entertainment that was being effected rather than the easte...
Along with the many other companies jumping on the 3DS’ line-up is Hudson, who are bringing some their most popular titles to Nintendo’s handheld. Three titles have now been named by Hudson at being their first entries into the 3D Market. It comes at no surprise that Bomberman & Deca sports will be joining the line-up, but Hudson will also be publishing the first Brain training tit...
Game Name: Lost in Shadow (aka A Shadow’s Tale in Europe) Platform(s): Nintendo Wii Publisher(s): Hudson Soft Developer(s): Hudson Soft Genre(s): Platformer, Puzzle Release Date: January 4th, 2011 (US) October 15, 2010 (EU) Price: $39.99 (US) Lost in Shadow is one of 2011’s first big releases in North America and was developed by Hudson Soft as a fresh take on a platformer. The thing t...