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Cing: When great developers fall under hard times…

Posted by Lynk Former on 9 March 2010 at 12:44 AM (GMT+10)

This entry is obviously a reaction to the recent news that developer of Another Code/Trace Memory, Hotel Dusk and Little King’s Story, Cing, Inc. has filed for bankruptcy… It’s sad when good developers go through tough times.

Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is one of my favourite games on the Nintendo DS, it’s up there with the entire Ace Attorney series by Capcom which I also hold in extremely high respect. However, unlike Capcom, Cing is a developer with very few games under its belt. A PS2 game, a few Japan-only mobile phone games, a few DS games and a couple of Wii games. Quality over quantity is the way Cing operates, and their recent games on the DS and Wii were all very well made, quality games.

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Game Spotlight: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Posted by Lynk Former on 20 July 2009 at 5:03 PM (GMT+10)

I don’t particularly go out of my way to buy Grand Theft Auto games, in fact, I’m not much of a fan despite playing through most of the series. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good series, nothing wrong with a bit of GTA… it’s just that with the whole rehash list they’ve come out lately which is just “bigger and better” versions of GTAIII, it can get tiring.

When Chinatown Wars was announced for the Nintendo DS, my interest was peaked when I saw images of an oldskool style top-down GTA of old. I was excited but still sceptical… after all, most people don’t remember the first and second Grand Theft Auto. Gamers who experienced the third person variants see the first two games as well as Chinatown Wars as alien entities… not “true” GTA games.

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Virtual Portable Console “…we have no plans for that…”

Posted by Lynk Former on 21 June 2009 at 11:31 PM (GMT+10)

At the beginning of last month I had written an article about Nintendo and the path they are following with Wii. This article is a bit of a follow up to that one, though this time I’d like to focus on the DSi specifically. E3 has come and gone and while we got to enjoy at least ONE nice surprise, the rest of what Nintendo showed at E3 was horribly predictable.

I was really sure that Nintendo would announce that the DSi would be getting “Virtual Portable Console” support during this year’s E3. After all, it would make sense on so many levels… though at this point, I don’t really know what to think with Nintendo. They obviously have a plan they’re following which they think will get them a lot of money for the least amount of effort, that much is obvious…

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