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Gameloft boss defends company's clones
Cloning is a hot-button topic, the ethics of which continue to be explored by legislatures, theologians and George Lucas. In the games world, one company is at the forefront of the science: Gameloft. Its experiments -- including the recent Shadow Guardian, a facsimile of Uncharted 2 -- have been ...
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Wii Fanboy Review: Block Breaker Deluxe
When Pong evolved, we got Breakout. When Breakout evolved, we got Arkanoid. Then, when Arkanoid evolved, we got ... Block Breaker Deluxe? Not that we'd call Block Breaker Deluxe revolutionary in any way, even though it's fun to play. Take Breakout, slap on some tacky '80s visuals, then throw in ...
Masteroids: Not as bad (or as painful) as you think!
Not many pleasant things come to mind when someone says a word like Masteroids, so it's hard to think of any reason why anyone would want to name their game that. As it turns out, the Masteroids title sort of makes sense for this homebrew multiplayer clone of Asteroids. Based on the classic Atari ...
Wii getting cell phone shovelware, thanks Gameloft
In companies' rush to capitalize on the industry's fascination with waggle, the Wii has become no stranger to games we'd sooner use to prop up the short leg of our coffee table than play. Much as it seems counterintuitive, novelty has not been par the course for the console so much as it has been ...
PS3 clone is a genuine 'Winner'
Understandably, you've likely gotten tired of hearing about the Chintendo Vii and now yearn for a truly next-gen knockoff. Allow us to bestow that description upon the Phony "Winner," a marvelous new device which not only (and poorly) apes the PlayStation 3's aesthetics, but the Vii's ...
Wii clone caught on Vii-deo
Our mutual fiend the Vii, a rather dubious console inspired by Nintendo's Wii, has once again made an appearance on the pages of Engadget Chinese. This time, its motion-sensitive mimicry has been captured on video, truly the best format for illustrating the awkward flailing required to make it ...
Sonic the Horrific Mutant Cat
We didn't think it possible to design a more reviling clone of Sonic the Hedgehog than Shadow, but as you can see above, someone actually managed to do it, and much to our surprise, it isn't Sega's fault (this time). The grotesque beast was sighted in the shoe section of a department store in ...
Can't find a Wii? Get a Vii!
Patents and trademarks -- who cares about 'em? Apparently not the people behind Vii, a Chinese Wii knock-off. The looks more like a papercraft Wii than the real thing (wait, that's an insult to brilliant papercraft perpetrators everywhere), but the controller is pretty similar. A French site spotted ...
Lumines clone Luminator sliding to DS
A German studio is set to release a Lumines knockoff for the DS in Europe later this year -- Luminator. We'll let you make your own Terminator/Schwarzenegger jokes about that one. The game has a fraction of the tracks and skins of the real thing -- only fifteen of each -- but the music has a ...
Guitar Hero-esque Frets on Fire working on Mac OS X
Our Mac-obsessed brothers at TUAW pointed out that Frets on Fire -- the free, open-source music game that's more than a little bit like Guitar Hero (let's say it was heavily influenced by) -- is now available for Mac OS X. Before you all scream, "Who plays games on Mac OS anyways? LAWL!" we'd like ...
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Earth Defense Force 2025 adds another cheesy chapter to D3's bug book
Posted on Jun 18th 2013 2:00PM