James Noir’s Hollywood Crimes 3D for the Nintendo 3DS is an attempt by Ubisoft to recreate film noir in multi-dimensional handheld form. Film noir is a term derived in the 1970’s to describe a multitude of Hollywood crime dramas (before and since) containing character ambiguity, flexible morals, sexual motivations and cynicism. Think of The Big Sleep or The Night of the Hunter. Not an obvious source of inspiration for a puzzle game played on a handheld primarily owned by children.
Great news for those of you who just got a shiny new 3DSXL and are looking to expand your 3DS library. Several 3DS games have gotten price reductions/clearanced out at Best Buy and for those of you who can get to your local store to search for the titles this evening you can still take advantage of the B2G1 sales on all 3DS games. These games were all marked at a local store, did not appear to be a manager special and required no override at the register when purchasing them. That said, as is often the case for price drops like these, prices may vary depending based on different stores. These prices will likely be IN STORE ONLY.
Pocket Gamer: If you want to point the finger of accusation anywhere, we suggest you point it at Level-5's Professor Layton series on DS.
Ubisoft has today announced that James Noir’s Hollywood Crimes is now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. In the videogame, players will go deep into with more than one hundred and forty intriguing puzzles and riddles to solve a series of murders.
