Articles by Stephen Munn
Stephen Munn is a writer, gamer, lover of technology and a father, not necessarily in that order.
I’m clearly not trying hard enough to dislike the 3DS
The 3DS is down to $170 as of today, and that Ambassador program entry window has closed as well. You will hear me on podcast 192 waffling about whether or not I want to get …
This is not what a purchase experience for a game console should be like
My launch Wii is on the verge of exploding or something, so I decided to go buy a new one. Toys R Us had a promotion yesterday, online only, where if you spent $125 or …
Review: Hard Corps: Uprising
Contra is one of those classics from the NES era that just about everyone remembers. It was a side-scrolling run-and-gun game with high jumps and lots of weapon upgrade options, and lots of explosions. Contra …
Review: Magic the Gathering: Tactics
Adam Clayton is a 29 year old gamer who started playing video games on a Tandy TRS-80 (Frogger on Cassette tape, WHAT) and never stopped. He has collected magic cards since 1995 and plays Magic …
Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights puzzler coming for 3DS
Third parties seem pretty confident about Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS console. Konami’s been one of the platform’s big supporters, which is exciting for me as I’m such a fan of several of their franchises. Such a …
Lords of Shadow soundtrack earns two IFMCA nominations
Oscar Araujo’s soundtrack to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow has earned two nominations for The International Film Music Critics Association awards. While the awards are obviously generally intended for film, it turns out that video game …
Goozex baits a firestorm by allowing queue jumping with their new “Early Access” program
While I contemplated the challenges of queue jumping at the game trading post Goozex.com not long ago, I did some amount of research on the site’s forums. One thing suggested by one of the users …
Review: X-Men (PSN)
What is it?
X-Men was a coin-op brawler in the 1990s that many of us aging gamers were raised on. Along with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons, it completed a trilogy of excellent entries …
Galactus lords over Marvel vs Capcom 3 as its final boss
Marvel vs Capcom 3 is almost here, so it’s about time Capcom dropped the information on who the final boss in the game will be. It’s Galactus. Wait, is Silver Surfer in this game? That …
New characters for Okamiden revealed
Okamiden‘s coming to Nintendo DS on March 15th, and to promote the release, Capcom’s going to be giving us more to look at every week leading up to it. The first batch of stuff here …
Konami wraps up Harmony of Despair DLC with Getsu Fuma Den
Konami’s been rolling out new levels for Castlevania: Harmony of Despair pretty regularly, and now that’s finally kind of rolled to a stop. The last little add-on, called Getsu Fuma Den, is a bit of …
Collector’s Clips: F-Zero GX stickers
As a fan of the original F-Zero on SNES, I was at Target on day one for F-Zero GX, the Sega-developed Gamecube edition of the high-tech racing franchise. I plunked down my fifty dollars and …
Anarchy Reigns coming from PlatinumGames
Sega and PlatinumGames have announced that they’ll be working together yet again, hoping to follow up on the success of Bayonetta and Vanquish with a new multiplayer third-person brawler called Anarchy Reigns. Interestingly, one of …
Lord of the Flies DLC for Harmony of Despair launched, features Beelzebub
It’s only been a few days since the last one came out, but Konami just dropped another DLC pack for Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, called Lord of the Flies. This one features Beelzebub, a boss …
Screens, videos for Asura’s Wrath
Asura’s Wrath is coming to Xbox 360 and PS3. Capcom’s describing it as a blend of Asian mythologies in the science fiction and action genres. The title character is a deity who’s been betrayed and …
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D screens, video, details
As part of the wave of 3DS news yesterday, Capcom dropped some amount of new info on one of the Resident Evil games coming to the platform. Here’s what we’ve got:
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D …
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