Archive | June, 2008

Super Street Fighter II THDR Beta released!

Well the day is finally here, the Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix beta is available on Xbox live for those who purchased Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3. Simple select the Download Beta option from the main menu and get to testing! The beta version has one stage and allows you to play [...]

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Gyrostarr, Reviewed [WiiWare]

High-Voltage software has already wowed us with their 3D engine tech demo, and made us drool with their announcement and gameplay trailer from the upcoming 3D shooter the Conduit, but today they have something else entirely for you on Nintendo’s WiiWare channel. That game is Gyrostarr. Gyrostarr is a 3D shoot them up that has [...]

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Alone in the Dark now shipping!

Well the day has arrived, Atari’s Alone in the Dark should be hitting stores around the country as I write this. I’m quite excited to dig into this new entry to the series, as it’s really the game that started the whole survival horror genre as we now know it. Now a days flat shaded [...]

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Browsing Around: Enter the World of Soul Eater

While browsing the vast recesses of the Internet last week I came across a show we immediately thought the readers of Nukoda should know about: Soul Eater, and thus far, this has been the best discovery since Death Note.  Soul Eater is your typical Shonen comedy; young boys get nose bleeds when they see a [...]

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UFC 2009 Undisputed – Unveiled and Detailed

Aspiring fighters and fans of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s Spike TV-fueled pop culture explosion will now be happy to know that, courtesy of THQ, they can now bring their favorite bloodsport to their current generation (PS3/Xbox 360) videogame console of their choice with the newly announced UFC 2009 Undisputed. It’s an announcement that shouldn’t surprise [...]

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Exhibit: Pro Evolution Soccer 2009

Konami is rolling out the next entry in its annual soccer series, Pro Evolution Soccer (better known to you folks as Winning Eleven) as expected, this year.  It’s fitting for this season: everywhere we go, we are drowned in constant chatter of this year’s Euro Cup soccer tournament and plenty of horn honking from enthusiastic [...]

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Exhibit: Guitar Hero World Tour

Activision and RedOctane’s response to the juggernaut success of Rock Band last fall hardly came as a surprise to us when the first details of Guitar Hero World Tour’s multi-instrumental onslaught were first revealed earlier this year — however, new images of the peripherals passed over the Nukoda news desk today seem to be turning [...]

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Exhibit: Tomb Raider: Underworld

Lara Croft’s treasure hunting adventures in the Tomb Raider series have always been a hot-topic of discussion, and not necessarily because the games are particularly good. There were exceptions, yes, and Eidos’ front runner franchise spawned an entirely new genre, but the slump the games took in the later days of the PlayStation-One would seemingly [...]

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Resident Evil 4, Reviewed [Wii]

In 2005 there was one survival horror game that on everyone’s minds. Resident Evil 4 was heralded as a return to form for the franchise and was widely known as one of the best games on Gamecube. Now it’s on its way to the Nintendo Wii, following a detour on the PS2, keeping all the [...]

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Free Metal Gear Database for PSN June 19

For those of us who are still baffled by Metal Gear Solid‘s complex, convoluted universe, Konami is offering up a free download for PlayStation 3 users tomorrow. The Metal Gear Solid 4 Database is an “official knowledge base of everything that is Metal Gear, reaching all the way back to the very beginning of the [...]

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