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Is Pinball A Sports Video Game?

4:00PM January 8, 2012 | Owen Good

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. More »

Retro

Pinball Teeters On The Brink Of Obsolescence And A Resurgence

2:00AM October 25, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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. More »

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

11:30AM September 30, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »

Nintendo

The 3DS’ Zen Pinball 3D In Action

12:00AM September 23, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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. More »

Nintendo

Zen Pinball 3D Coming To 3DS Via Nintendo eShop

1:20AM September 21, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »

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Ms. ‘Splosion Man Crosses Over With FX Pinball 2 Next Week

10:00AM August 25, 2011 | Owen Good

Although known primarily for its Marvel Comics tables, the pinball simulator Pinball FX 2 has other crossovers, like Rocky & Bullwinkle and Street Fighter. The game’s latest team-up is with Twisted Pixel’s Ms. ‘Splosion Man, and it is available August 31. More »

In Real Life

Transforming Pinball Machines Are Too Cool For Michael Bay

5:30AM August 22, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Slick teaser trailers for…pinball machines? It’s a wonderful world we live in.

News

Six Shots Of Pinball FX 2′s Next Table, Ms. ‘Splosion Man

3:30PM August 12, 2011 | Owen Good

Back in July, FX Pinball 2 creator Zen Studios revealed that Twisted Pixel’s Ms. ‘Splosion Man would supply the theme for the next table for the pinball simulator. Six fresh screens of that went out today. More »

In Real Life

This Is Pinball Using Live Human Bodies

5:00AM August 3, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

In the amazing version of tilt-free pinball shown in this video, one person is the pinball. Other people are the flippers. Or sometimes fences are the flippers. Maybe a manhole cover is the hole down which the human pinball will be lost. More »

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Marvel Pinball Expanding To Other Platforms, But First, A Ghost Rider Table

4:00AM July 25, 2011 | Owen Good

The well received Marvel series of tables for the acclaimed pinball simulator Pinball FX 2 will be getting another set of four tables by winter, and also will expand to other platforms in 2012. More »