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Crystal Crisis
''Crystal Crisis'' is a competitive tile-matching puzzle video game developed and published by Nicalis, released on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows via Steam in 2019. It is inspired by Capcom's '' Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo'' and features crossover appearances by several characters from other Nicalis video games, as well as additional guest characters from companies such as Tezuka Productions. Gameplay The gameplay in ''Crystal Crisis'' is heavily inspired by Capcom's '' Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo''. Like ''Puzzle Fighter'', players control sets of two blocks ("crystals" in game parlance) that fall into a pit-like field (fifteen crystals tall by six crystals wide). Touching a crystal with a Spark Crystal of the same color will cause all adjacent crystals of that color to break and be removed from the field. The more crystals the player is able to break at once or in sequence, the greater number of Countdown Crystals that will appear on an opponent's fie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicalis
Nicalis, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Santa Ana, California. The company focuses primarily on indie games and has developed and published both original games as well as ports of existing games. Nicalis was founded in 2007 by Tyrone Rodriguez, a game designer and former game journalist. In 2017, Nicalis announced that they had acquired SuperVillain Studios and Cowboy Color. Games Since its founding, the company has developed and published several games, beginning with ''Dance Dance Revolution: Mobius'' in 2008 and '' Cave Story'' in 2010. In October 2011, Nicalis announced that it would publish a port of ''VVVVVV'' for the Nintendo 3DS via the Nintendo eShop. In December 2011, Nicalis offered both ''NightSky'' and ''Cave Story+'' for sale as part of Humble Indie Bundle 4. In April 2012, Nicalis announced that its plans to publish the WiiWare port of ''La-Mulana'' in the US and EU had been cancelled, citing a steep decline in the WiiWare userbase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astro Boy (character)
Astro Boy, known in Japan as , is a fictional superhero and the protagonist of the eponymous franchise. Created by Osamu Tezuka, the character was introduced in the 1951 ''Captain Atom'' manga. Astro Boy has appeared in animated television shows (notably the 1963, 1980, 2003 series) and feature film adaptations of its eponymous manga, as well as a live-action TV series, other works by Tezuka, and video games. On 7 April 2003, the City of Niiza registered the character as an actual resident. He was also inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame in 2004. Creation and conception Atom (known as Astro Boy or just Astro in English) originally appeared as a supporting character in the comic ''Atom Taishi'' (''Ambassador Atom'', sometimes referred to as ''Captain Atom''), which appeared in ''Shonen'', a monthly magazine for boys, in April 1951. Tezuka then created a comic series in which Astro was the main character. Schodt, Frederik L. "Introduction." ''Astro Boy'' Volume 1 (Comic by Osamu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It is regarded as the foremost online review aggregation site for the video game industry. Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or what the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to a critic's popularity, stature, and volume of reviews. The website won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. Criticism of the site has focused on the assessment system, the ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross-platform Play
In video games with online gaming functionality, also called cross-compatible play, cross-platform play, crossplay, or cross-play describes the ability of players using different video game hardware to play with each other simultaneously. It is commonly applied to the ability for players using a game on a specific video game console to play alongside a player on a different hardware platform such as another console or a computer. A related concept is cross-save, where the player's progress in a game is stored in separate servers, and can be continued in the game but on a different hardware platform. Cross-play is related to but distinct from the notion of cross-platform development, which uses software languages and tools to enable deployment of software on multiple platforms. Cross-platform play is also a distinct concept from the ability to allow a player to play a game on different hardware platforms, often only having to purchase the title for one single system to have access ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cullen
Peter Claver Cullen (born July 28, 1941) is a Canadian voice actor. He is best known as the voice of Optimus Prime in the original 1980s ''Transformers'' animated series, reprising the role many times since 2007. He has also voiced many other characters across a wide variety of popular media, including Eeyore in the ''Winnie the Pooh'' franchise, Monterey Jack in ''Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers'', the first voice of KARR in ''Knight Rider'' and the vocalizations of the title character in ''Predator''. In 2007, Cullen returned to the role of Optimus Prime in ''Transformers'' media, starting with the first live-action film. Early life Cullen was born on July 28, 1941, in Montreal, Quebec, to Henry and Muriel (née McCann) Cullen. He is of Irish people, Irish descent. He has three siblings: Michaela, Sonny, and Larry. He is a member of the first graduating class of the National Theatre School of Canada, which he graduated in 1963. His brother, Larry Cullen, was a retired Captain in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Wong
Justin Wong, occasionally shortened to just Jwong, is a formerly American and now Canadian professional fighting game player. Wong has won more EVO titles than anyone else with nine tournaments won: seven for '' Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes'' between 2001 and 2010, one for '' Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike'' in 2009, and one for ''Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3'' in 2014. Career Evolution 2004 In the Evolution Championship Series 2004 '' Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike'' losers bracket final, Wong's Chun-Li lost to Daigo Umehara's Ken Masters when, in an unexpected comeback, Daigo managed to parry every single hit of Chun-Li's super art II and land a max damage combo. This incident has been widely shared in a well-known viral video. 2009 Wong took part in GameStop's Street Fighter IV US National Tournament in 2009, which he won. After the main tournament, a set of special exhibition matches of Street Fighter IV took place in San Francisco, California, on April 18 afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destructoid
''Destructoid'' is a website that was founded as a video game-focused blog in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author. Enthusiast Gaming acquired the website in 2017, and sold it to Gamurs Group in 2022. History ''Destructoid'' was owned by Yanier "Niero" Gonzalez so that he could attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2006. After being rejected, Gonzalez began writing original editorials and drawing cartoons which were picked up by established gaming blogs like ''Joystiq'' and '' Kotaku''. In 2007 the site relaunched with user blogs, forums, and a team of contributors. Yanier's blog was moved off the home page in favor of a staff-edited, multi-author format. Similar to ''IGN'', ''Destructoid'' offers free registration and readers can submit off-homepage blogs. After E3, Gonzalez appeared at the press conference dressed as Mr. Destructoid (''Destructoid'' robot mascot, shown on logos and promotional material) to hand out promotional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Code Of Princess
is an action role-playing video game developed by Studio Saizensen and originally published by Agatsuma Entertainment for Nintendo 3DS. It was released in Japan in April 2012 by Agatsuma Entertainment, and in North America by Atlus USA in October 2012, Agatsuma Entertainment also published the game in Europe and Australia in March 2013, exclusively as an eShop title. A version for Microsoft Windows was released in April 2016. An enhanced port entitled ''Code of Princess EX'' launched for the Nintendo Switch between July and August 2018, courtesy of Nicalis worldwide, and Pikii in Japan. Gameplay ''Code of Princess'' is a hack and slash video game that features several game modes and over 50 playable characters. In single-player mode there is a story-driven campaign mode with several scenarios where only 4 characters (Solange, Ali, Zozo and Allegro) are playable, a "free play" mode that allows playing any campaign scenario with any available character, and a "Bonus Quests" mode whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umihara Kawase
is a series of platform games starring the sushi chef Umihara Kawase, who has become lost in a world of surreal salt-water and fresh-water creatures. The series began with ''Umihara Kawase'' for the Super Famicom in 1994, which was followed by ''Umihara Kawase Shun'' in 1997, ''Sayonara Umihara Kawase'' in 2013, ''Umihara Kawase Fresh!'' in 2019, and ''Umihara Kawase Bazooka!'' in 2020. Development The game was an independent collaboration between developer Kiyoshi Sakai, illustrator Toshinobu Kondo, and several others. It was published by TNN, "Think about Needs of Notice for human being". Gameplay The game world of Umihara Kawase is constructed from a set of interconnected levels known as fields. Each field connects to one or more fields deeper within the game via doors. Fields are enclosed areas containing a number of static and moving platforms, ladders, spikes, enemy sea-life and one or more exit doors. The doors are often positioned in hard to reach places and it is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Turbo
Johnny Turbo is a superhero character created to advertise the Turbo Duo, a hybrid of the Turbografx-16 console and its add-on, the TurboGrafx CD, in North America. The character was conceived by Turbo Technologies Inc. (a venture of NEC and Hudson Soft) as a mascot of the console. Previously, NEC used Bonk as the Turbografx-16's mascot. Later, continuing this theme, TTi would adopt Air Zonk (a cyborg-Bonk who starred in horizontal shooters ''Air Zonk'' and '' Super Air Zonk: Rockabilly-Paradise'') as the mascot for TurboDuo. Unlike Bonk or Zonk, Johnny Turbo never starred in any games during the Turbo Duo's lifetime. Instead, his only appearances were in three comic book-like advertisements published in gaming magazines of the day, such as ''Video Games & Computer Entertainment'' and ''Electronic Gaming Monthly''. The character was briefly revived for a playable appearance in the 2019 puzzle game ''Crystal Crisis''. He was also used in the name and banner for Johnny Turbo's Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Binding Of Isaac (video Game)
''The Binding of Isaac'' is a roguelike video game designed by independent developers Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl. It was released in 2011 for Microsoft Windows, then ported to OS X, and Linux. The game's title and plot are inspired by the Biblical story of the Binding of Isaac. In the game, Isaac's mother receives a message from God demanding the life of her son as proof of her faith, and Isaac, fearing for his life, flees into the monster-filled basement of their home where he must fight to survive. Players control Isaac or one of seven other unlockable characters through a procedurally generated dungeon in a roguelike manner, fashioned after those of ''The Legend of Zelda'', defeating monsters in real-time combat while collecting items and power-ups to defeat bosses and eventually Isaac's mother. The game was the result of a week-long game jam between McMillen and Himsl to develop a ''The Legend of Zelda''-inspired roguelike that allowed McMillen to showcase his feeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blade Strangers
is a 2D crossover fighting game developed by Studio Saizensen and published by Nicalis, released on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows via Steam in August 2018, as well as a Japanese arcade release. It features one-on-one combat between several characters from various independent video game franchises. Gameplay Gameplay in ''Blade Strangers'' takes place on a 2D plane and features two characters battling one another until one character's health is depleted, causing them to lose the match. The game avoids the use of more complex directional inputs seen in other fighting games; instead, players perform various attacks and special moves by pressing a single directional input in combination with one or more of the four attack buttons, similar to the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series. During battle, players can build their super meter by dealing or receiving damage, which can be used to enhance their special moves or perform powerful super attacks. When a player charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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