Admit it, guys – your first thought when you heard about Dead or Alive coming to 3DS wasn’t “oh cool, a well-loved 3D fighting game coming to a new portable platform.” It was likely more along the lines of “LOL 3D jiggly boobies.” And given the series’ marketing push as of late, you’d be quite forgiven for that. So you might be surprised to hear that the infamous DoA breast physics were rather subdued during our playtest of DoA Dimensions at Nintendo World 2011 in Japan. Perhaps it’s because it was a public show with impressionable youth around, or perhaps Tecmo-Koei is actually ratcheting down the T&A a bit for the Nintendo crowd, but either way it actually helped the merits of a solid 3D fighter shine through more brightly...
It’s been a surprisingly long time since the last Dead or Alive fighting game release – Dead or Alive 4 came out way back in 2005, around the launch window of the Xbox 360. We’ve had some spin-offs and a very bizarre film adaptation in the meantime, but DoA’s core competency of intense one-on-one 3D fighting has been, well, dead for a while now. But Team Ninja’s not content to let one of its crown jewels collect dust, and now Dead or Alive is alive and kicking again, making a comeback in the form of DoA Dimensions on the 3DS. We sat down with Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi to discuss all matter of DoA related subjects, ranging from the current fighting game landscape to the franchise’s future as a post-merger Tecmo-Koei property...
There are some who would say that Konami is trying to pull a fast one with their newest puzzle-adventure game, Doctor Lautrec & the Forgotten Knights. Emphasis on puzzles and mysteries? An eccentric lead character with a top hat and peppy sidekick? We’re looking at a Professor Layton clone, right? While Dr. Lautrec does share quite a few similarities with the successful Professor Layton series, our hands-on demo also showed off combat gameplay quite different to anything we've seen in Professor Layton...
Get all the details on the Kongs' toned-down difficulty in New Mode and info on the additional features in our quick rundown...
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