There's always to sides to a fence, so they say. And when it comes to game reviews, the usual side that we see are the journalists' - particularly highlighting the many issues they have to contend with, especially with PR people breathing down their necks to bag a good score for their product. Today, however, we are allowed a peek at the other side of the fence as one guy from the biz explains why devs push the journalists to give their games a good score - and why it is right for them to do it.

Developer Risike has released his tool to test the performances of Micro Lua DS, the Ball Mark. He explains that this brew app will draw a lot of bounding and rotating balls of various color, size and speed, and to random directions.


Download: Ball Mark

A settlement's finally been reached between the disgruntled Team Ninja members and Tecmo. The lawsuit filed last July was on the issue of unpaid overtime work under flexible working hours. Details after the jump.

Take-Two Interactive, still hot in talks with Electronic Arts (supposedly) over their merger, has sent in its financial statement for the previous fiscal quarter. The report reveals their line-up of games for the next (fiscal) year. Details in the full article.

This is a DS homebrew game from French brew dev philoo. We're not too sure what the French site is saying about the game, but it looks like a type of game where you'll have to drop shells onto the pocketholes until you get all in your "home" pocket".

It's sort of like DDR or DJMax, but with a twist. This is how Ti-Ra-Nog describes his DS homebrew game, PushIt! v0.1.0. Push the full article button to read more about it.


Download: PushIt! v0.1.0

Looking to return to the good old days of point-and-click adventure games? The dev team from ScummVM recently released the latest build of the game for the Nintendo DS, updating the homebrew emulator to version 0.12.0 beta4. Find out what changes were made since our previous coverage of ScummVM in our full article.

Download: ScummVM 0.12.0 beta4

That was a quick resolution. Unlike other acquisition stories that we know of, Tecmo and Square Enix have already settled the score. Unfortunately for Squeenix, Tecmo hearts Koei more, and so takes the gentlemanly way out.

Developed by Zapf Bandit, Word Find DS v1.0.0 is what its name purports it to be. Word Find DS allows you to play randomly generated word search puzzles on the Nintendo DS. Learn more about it after the jump!


Download: Word Find DS v1.0.0

Well, Tecmo's certainly had some time to think about the friendly takeover offer given by Square Enix. Kotaku reports, however, that Tecmo's rejected Square Enix's offer, opting to try and merge with Koei instead. More on this in the full article.