In Real Life

Homemade Portal Pinball Will Teleport Into Your Heart

Action and reaction. Angles and speed. Momentum and inertia. Pinball is a game of physics. So is Portal. And that’s what makes this homemade Aperture Science pinball table so great.


April 6, 2012
PlayStation

Fantastic-Looking The Pinball Arcade Hits PS3 And Vita Next Week

Colour me excited — FarSight’s painstakingly crafted pinball game The Pinball Arcade will be coming to PS3 and Vita next week on April 10.


April 5, 2012
In Real Life

Did You Know Pinball Was Once Declared Illegal?

Pinball. The great American mechanical pastime. It’s about as innocent as gaming gets, especially compared to the blood, drugs and sex you find in video games.


February 25, 2012
In Real Life

Designer Of Two-Flipper Pinball Has Passed Away

Steve Kordek, best known for revolutionising pinball by adding those bottom two flippers that you can find on just about any machine nowadays, died Sunday. He was 100.


February 21, 2012
In Real Life

The Painstaking Process Behind ‘The Best Pinball Video Game Ever Made’

Pinball is storied; pinball is distinctive. Pinball has a fascinating history, pinball has been a part of almost every youth in some capacity or another. It’s a controlled collision of physics and art, all in the service of giving players a kinesthetic experience that’s not quite like anything else. Pinball is… well, it’s pinball.


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.


October 25, 2011
Retro

Pinball Teeters On The Brink Of Obsolescence And A Resurgence

Pinball played right is an act of violence. Violence against that steel ball trying to slip past your paddles. Violence against gravity urging that escape along. Violence against the glass top that contains everything happening within and violence against the wooden casket packed with hundreds of moving parts, lights and noise.


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.


September 23, 2011
Nintendo

The 3DS’ Zen Pinball 3D In Action

Earlier this week we talked you through what Zen Pinball 3D would have to offer on the 3DS when it hits the Nintendo eShop later this year.


September 21, 2011
Nintendo

Zen Pinball 3D Coming To 3DS Via Nintendo eShop

The makers of the popular Pinball FX 2 series on Xbox Live Arcade will bring the silver ball to the 3DS with Zen Pinball 3D, a downloadable title releasing later this year on the Nintendo eShop.