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A Pinball Role-Playing Game? Be Still My Shiny Spherical Heart

Coming soon to Pinball FX 2 and Zen Pinball platforms everywhere, Epic Quest is a pinball table that merges the science of the silver ball with the loot gathering, experience points, and levelling of a role-playing game. How dangerous is that concept?


January 8, 2012
Xbox

Is Pinball A Sports Video Game?

I’ve tried to be open-minded about what constitutes a sports video game, largely because the genre has so few new titles or competing products in a given year. Pinball FX 2, one of my favourite games of 2011, has struck me as a quasi-sports video game for a while, I just couldn’t really articulate why.


September 30, 2011
Xbox

Pinball FX2 Gets Another Table: ‘Sorcerer’s Lair’

Diehard pinballers looking for another couple thou or so on their Wizard Score in Pinball FX2 can pick up another table on October 12, developer Zen Studios just announced. “Sorcerer’s Lair”, an all-original table, will release then, promising “a gothic world of mystery, ghosts and ginormous spiders!” The table offers six missions.


April 11, 2011
Xbox

Pinball FX2 Goes To Mars

Zen Studios is launching a new table into their Xbox 360 pinball platform on April 20, when Mars comes into orbit around Pinball FX2.


January 5, 2011
PlayStation

Pinball FX2: Marvel Pinball Tingles My Silver Ball Sense

I am not a pinball wizard. I never have been. But here I am, with itchy flipper fingers, rarin’ to shoot that silver ball. Pinball FX2: Marvel Pinball is ready to scratch that itch — comic book style.