Aside from a few misguided design quirks, this is fun romp.
While hardly original, Shadowalker is an enjoyable mobile knock-off of the 16-bit action platformer formula and the recent Castlevania entries. Its pleasant visuals, surprisingly deep story, and RPG elements are all pieces of its addictive pull. Players control Phoenix Shadowalker, forced to defend a small land from an onslaught of monsters. Her...
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an
extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast
to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and
powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav.
