About Trevor Gould

Firmly set in the Space Invaders’ mold, Super Destronaut offers Wii U owners some eShop retro shooting at a budget price.  The first thing that’ll probably catch your eye is …
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The promise of danger free space travel might make for a good vacation brochure, but the realities are far more hostile, at least in Affordable Space Adventures.  Thankfully travelers are …
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The latest eShop offering from RCMADIAX, PENTAPUZZLE has you manipulating various shapes to fill in grids.  You can slide and spin each piece all around, but everyone needs to be …
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While hardly the most imaginative title, Don’t Touch Anything Red is a good indicator of what the game entails.  And it delivers on its promise, being a runner where you …
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The Fossil Fighters series makes its move from the DS to the 3DS. Japanese gamers have been playing it for over a year, and now the rest of us can …
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Own the road

A lot could be written about Out Run.  The impact the game had on the arcade scene, its nonlinear gameplay, the genius of designer Yu Suzuki, etc. …
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A look at My Style Studio: Notebook

I’m not exactly sure what type of category “Lifestyle” is, but My Style Studio: Notebook is an edutainment application for creative types.  This …
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Don’t let the awful name fool you – Blek is a good puzzle title, with very rewarding gameplay.  The Wii U eShop has many quality puzzlers to choose from, but …
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Pure Nintendo fans may recall that RIVE (‘the metal wrecking, robot hacking shooter’) from Two Tribes graced the cover of issue #19 of PNM.  At PAX East I was able …
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I was recently privileged to conduct a fine interview about the game Affordable Space Adventures, which appeared in issue #21 of PNM.  However it was PAX East that allowed me …
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First (if you haven’t already viewed it) check out the PAX South demo vid that Peter posted.  The gameplay in that video is what I got to experience at PAX …
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Of all the games I saw and played at PAX East, Toto Temple Deluxe might have surprised me the most.  The game wasn’t high on my radar prior to the …
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13AM games has a winner on their hands, at least if my time playing Runbow is anything to go by.  The indie developer has crafted an experience representative of the …
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Titan Attacks! is described as a “modern remix of classic arcade shoot’em’ups, and that’s a spot on description.  It’s a take on Space Invaders and Galaga, with a bit of …
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Adventure Bar Story gets immediate points for originality, turning a cooking title into a genuine RPG.  I haven’t seen anything like that since Grand Chef, an old 3DO import that’s …
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Excave is a rather average name for a rather average game. This new dungeon crawler doesn’t do anything egregiously wrong, but it comes up short in several ways. Genre fans …
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M2’s Genesis updates have been quite respectable, but it’s the arcade reworkings that have really brought their talents to the forefront. Fresh off Afterburner comes yet another arcade shooter, this …
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After a longer than expected wait, the Moon Chronicles saga has finally resumed on 3DS. Thankfully this DLC brings all the remaining episodes together at once. Even better, they make …
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