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