If you are all fired up after watching Star Trek on DVD or Blu-ray then play a game of Star Rangers on your iPhone and you’ll feel like Kirk zapping the bad guys. Just like your favorite starship, you have shields, warp drive, photon torpedoes, a galactic map and long range sensors all at your fingertips. Defend your bases scattered throughout the galaxy in real time as the hostile Lanz-trinzini attempt to surround and destroy them. (And you too if you get caught between them!) Get into a bind and you too can punch the warp drive to get out of danger faster than you got into it, just like a real starship captain. So what are you waiting for? Warp on over to iTunes and…yep…beam your copy down today! For more information vist the ANALOGretro website.
Halloween has come and gone but there is always next year. Here are some gaming characters that are just amazing. Starting out with Mr. Bubbles from my favorite game of 2008, BioShock. The Big Daddy diving suit is impressive with it’s attention to detail and realism. Just undertaking a project this steep earns Harrison Krix a few million points for his 7-week project. Sure beats the Ben Cooper get-up’s I wore as a kid.
There are hundreds, maybe thousands of Master Chief wanabe’s walking around but the “Master Chief Wearable Suit” by Chris Bryan is the real deal.
This Samus Aren (from Metroid) is sweet…
Not sure who Ivy Valentine is, from Soul Caliber 2? In case you need more images click here.
For more on some these and others amazing pieces of work, check out The 20 Most Badass Video Game Cosplay Costumes Ever.
Our “top secret” project for the past 9 months is now up on iTunes and it’s Star Rangers for the iPod touch and iPhone. This is the first of many planned apps and it’s a killer! Visit ANALOGretro.com/StarRangers
Maybe the best thing 
about a really great game is that you can revisit them years later and remember why you enjoyed it so much. Nearly any game will lose something over the years as advances in graphics and processing power move up, but the game play still remains. A landmark title has so much going for it that some details can be overlooked, as the other aspects are so strong. A couple of standouts for me were Nectaris and Majesty. Nectaris was a turn-based strategy game, originally developed by Hudsonsoft in Japan, that centered-around futuristic weapons on the surface of the Moon for a battle of dominance. What made the game special were the game balancing, decent AI, A+ music score, and cool weapons. It was released later as NeoNectaris in Japan-only, but this time the battle took place on Mars and added even better weapons including powerful Bio-Tech machines. That game soundtrack still remains one of my favorites ever. Other versions of Nectaris were released for the PC, Playstation, original Gameboy, and a spin-off called Earthlight for the Nintendo SNES. A cell phone version was even developed and sold. In the US Nectaris was known as Military Madness on the TurboGrafx-16 console – same great game but the name change never quite did it for me. The original Military Madness resurfaced a couple years ago on the Wii as a WiiWare Turbografx-16 re-release. Read the rest of this entry »
Though I have a Mac, gaming PC, Wii, 360, PS3, DS, PSP and iPod (and just about every gaming platform back to the Odyssey and Pong) – it’s impossible to play every game that comes along. I don’t 
care who you are and if you are gaming 24/7 – you just can’t play them all. (And I know; as publisher of the two leading game magazines at the time, I had access to every game out there, for free.) Another factor to consider in picking the best for your favorite game list is that everyone has categories they favor or dislike. If you kill to play 3rd-person shooters, and would do it all day if you could, what does that have to say about taking a detour to play a sim or (dare I say it) edutainment product? Read the rest of this entry »