Shatter

I’ve always had a fascination with paddle games. No, not those sort of games – I mean the brick smashers where you hit a projectile into bricks in order to smash them apart. The aim of the game is usually nothing more than to clear the area of...

Shatter isn't necessarily a new game. It hit the PSN about half a year ago and was met with some great reception. Now, it has been ported to PC and delivered through Steam for it's new audience. What's new? What's not? What's...

Arkanoid and Breakout might have been the inspiration for Shatter, but they are so far down the family tree that the only recognizable trait in common is the brick busting. One might be more accurate in saying that Shatter, by Sidhe and available...

The latest, and probably greatest, of the classic brick-breaking genre, Sidhe Interactive’s Shatter succeeds and revolutionizes pioneering videogames such as Atari’s Breakout from 1976. The original concept for this genre was very simple:...

Shatter was first released on the PlayStation Store and subsequently won 'IGN's best PlayStation Store Game of 2009'. Now the game has come to the PC, with a few new game modes to boot. Shatter itself is nothing extremely new, instead it...

Shatter is brick breaking at its best--simple, innovative, and...

Everyone knows the “brick-breaker” genre: Pong-like mechanics allow the player to ricochet projectiles across the screen in a destructive and occasionally glorious manner. Dazzling visuals and funky backdrops have followed the genre’s...

Chances are that you've played a "Breakout clone" game before. There are dozens of them out there, from well-known games like Arkanoid to cell phone games like Brickbreaker. Every one of these games has the same basic gameplay: you bounce a ball...