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Portabliss: Bomb Monkey (3DS eShop)

JC Fletcher — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:15:00 EST

Renegade Kid's Bomb Monkey is a refreshingly simple falling-block puzzler. You line up blocks of the same color, and then drop a bomb to destroy all adjacent same-color blocks within the bomb's one-block blast radius. It's sort of like a simplified Puzzle Fighter, since there's no timer on the bombs and they aren't color-coded. There are added complexities, like locked blocks that require two bombs to clear and an optional mode that lets you rescue a monkey from a cage (by blowing it up), but the foundation is almost immediately understood.

I'm totally not saying that as a bad thing, either. Maybe more than any puzzle game I've played, Bomb Monkey immediately gets you into the pleasurable business of making giant chain-reaction combos and watching everything on the screen vanish.

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NintendoWare Weekly: Bomb Monkey, Marvel Pinball, VVVVVV sale

JC Fletcher — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:00:00 EST

This is not just a great week for the 3DS eShop, but it's an important one. Last weekend, Nintendo discounted Super Mario Land temporarily; this weekend's sale on VVVVVV proves that these limited-time discounts are an actual thing. For a digital Nintendo platform, two sales is a giant leap forward.

That discount is joined by a demo for Rhythm Thief, which appears to actually be coming out, and interesting new eShop games Bomb Monkey and Marvel Pinball 3D.

It's not so great for the Wii this week, with absolutely no releases of any kind on the Wii Shop, but it can't all be good news.

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Renegade Kid's Bomb Monkey on the 3DS eShop next week for $5

Richard Mitchell — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:15:00 EST

Bomb Monkey, the next project from Mutant Mudds developer Renegade Kid, will be landing on the 3DS eShop next Thursday in North America. Lest you haven't been following Bomb Monkey, it's a puzzle game about a monkey ... with bombs. Watch the trailer, it's pretty self explanatory.

What's not quite as self-explanatory is Bomb Monkey's multiplayer mode, which allows two players to play simultaneously on a single 3DS. Holding the 3DS sideways (like a book), one player controls the actions on one screen with the D-pad, while the other player controls the opposite screen with the face buttons. Madness. Also madness: Bomb Monkey will cost $5.

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Renegade Kid's next eShop game: Bomb Monkey

Richard Mitchell — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:00:00 EST

With Mutant Mudds now available on the 3DS eShop, developer Renegade Kid is already teasing its next project. Literally, all we have is a tease. Specifically, Renegade Kid has opened a website for a game called Bomb Monkey. The site includes the image above and a logo for the Nintendo eShop.

Given the text and the image, it would appear Bomb Monkey is a puzzle game, possibly of the color-matching variety. Renegade Kid director Jools Watsham tweeted the website saying, "I hope it's not too puzzling if I DROP this here," implying that Bomb Monkey is indeed a traditional puzzler. For the moment, we'll just have to wait and see what monkey do.

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