Maybe It Isn’t a Sport, But Is Pinball a Sports Video Game? [Stick Jockey]

I’ve tried to be open-minded about what constitutes a sports video game, largely because the genre has so few new titles or competing products in a given year. Pinball FX 2 , one of my favorite games of 2011, has struck me as a quasi-sports video game for a while, I just couldn’t really articulate why. More??

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Chart breaks down game genres as individual planets

Back in October, we posted a super tall infographic that chronicled the history of console gaming (with some corners cut here and there). The cats responsible for that monster have concocted another massive chart, this one breaking down the various gaming genres into “worlds.” Like, literal worlds. Each genre is its own galaxy of planets

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Review: Skyward Sword Slashes Zelda’s Sacred Cows

Link and Zelda share a peaceful moment before everything goes pear-shaped and he has to save the world in Zelda: Skyward Sword for Wii. Image: Nintendo Have you ever played a game that took forever to come out , only to find yourself wondering, “What the hell were they doing for all this time, anyway?” The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is not one of those games. It has taken Nintendo five years to release a game in this series developed exclusively for Wii, and it delivers in every way possible including some you wouldn’t necessarily expect.

 Review: Skyward Sword Slashes Zelda’s Sacred Cows

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