Ikaruga, the bullet hell shooter to end all bullet hell shooters, has finally hit the Xbox Live Arcade. Originally released on the Dreamcast, then ported to the Gamecube, the game is infamous for its crushing difficulty. Here is what’s new to the downloadable version: 720p visuals, online co-op, replay video saving, and leaderboards. The game […]

If the 2D fighting game genre could be epitomized by one single aspect it is most certainly the unwillingness to redraw anything in subsequent revisions. Character sprites get reused over and over again, continuity between new sprites and 10-year old sprites be damned. I don’t blame them, though. In attempts to lure young latch-key children […]