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Pub Darts Review

Thu, Feb 4th, 2010, 12:04 pm (EST) BY DARRYL

Big Blue Bubble are a Canadian developer best known for their work on mobile games, but with the advent of WiiWare, they have decided to shift focus slightly towards this emerging platform. Their latest WiiWare title, Pub Darts, as hinted at by the title, is an attempt to recreate the game of darts in a pub atmosphere. More »


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Pub Darts Comes to WiiWare

Tue, Jan 5th, 2010, 3:24 pm (EST) BY KYLE WYNEN

While it might be a wee bit inappropriate to bring your Wii to the pub, thanks to developer Big Blue Bubble, you can at least bring the pub to your Wii, in the form of Pub Darts for WiiWare. As the developer put it, you can supposedly "experience the camaraderie of your local pubs’ dart night without leaving your living room!" More »


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Review: Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Tue, Dec 1st, 2009, 9:51 pm (EST) BY KYLE WYNEN

A publisher, a license holder, and a developer all working together on a single video game is a fairly common, and safe, strategy for everyone involved. Usually licenses, like those of blockbuster films or best selling comics, are an already proven franchise, so in turn the subsequent licensed video game has a much greater chance of doing well for itself. More »


How Fighting Fantasy's Graphics Dazzle on DS
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How Fighting Fantasy's Graphics Dazzle on DS

Posted on 2009/11/20 BY KYLE WYNEN

Randy Van Der Vlag is the Lead Artist on Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain for the DS, and in a presentation at the Montreal International Game Summit on Tuesday, spoke about how developer Big Blue Bubble pulled off, in this editor's opinion, some of the best visuals on the DS. More »


Best Looking DS Game Comes With Best-Selling Book
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Best Looking DS Game Comes With Best-Selling Book

Posted on 2009/10/05 BY KYLE WYNEN

Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is the forthcoming first-person RPG from Apsyr and developer Big Blue Bubble based on the best-selling book by the same name. Not having sat-back with a novel in far too long, imagine my surprise when opening one courier package to have said Fighting Fantasy book slide out and into my hands. More »


New RPG on DS Brings Astounding Graphics and More
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New RPG on DS Brings Astounding Graphics and More

Posted on 2009/09/10 BY KYLE WYNEN

The Nintendo DS is not at all synonymous with games that have good 3D graphics. Buzzwords like Frames Per Second, Dynamic Lighting, and Draw Distance are seemingly foreign to the DS. However, one new title for the platform coming out this Fall is poised to smash that stereotype; Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is possibly the best looking game to grace the DS to-date, and better yet, it's like Bethesda's Oblivion, but in your pocket.

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The Gallant Reality Behind Digital Extremes
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The Gallant Reality Behind Digital Extremes

Posted on 2009/04/04 BY KYLE WYNEN

We recently got the chance to pay a visit to London, Ontario's largest game development studio, Digital Extremes. While there, we also got to have a chat with studio's president, Michael Schmalz about his views on expanding the Dark Sector universe and his aspirations for the company. More »