After seven months of infuriating silence, Nintendo finally unveiled their new console this morning. The Nintendo Swich is, as rumors have stated, a console / portable hybrid with detachable...
20 October 2016
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01 September 2016
It's been nearly four years and Nintendo hasn't given me too many reasons to buy a Wii U. And today they even removed one of the justifications I had for buying one. The Wii U game Yoshi'... |
23 August 2016
You might remember Hyrule Historia, which collected the development history and lore of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series. I pass on this because the coverage for... |
17 August 2016
First 4 Figures always go all out, but their latest statue sets the bar even higher than before. "Link on the King of the Red Lions" is based on the talking sailboat from The Legend of... |
08 August 2016
Remember Metroid II: Return of Samus? Just barely, right? The 1991 Game Boy game was a decent, though slimmed down, sequel to 1986's sprawling sci-fi adventure. However, like the... |
07 July 2016
The Witcher 3 came out at the perfect time, stealing the wind from The Elder Scrolls’ sails and blowing the minds of Western RPG fans. Over a year after the game’s initial... |
03 May 2016
While Erick Scarecrow continues to work on making his 9DKP anime project a reality, he's branching out into other formats. Just launched this week is a Kickstarter project for a... |
17 February 2016
M. C. Escher, googly eyes, and princesses: these are the ingredients to create an award-winning mobile game. ustwo's creation, Monument Valley, has made over... |
09 September 2016
Here's a fun surprise: BAPE are teaming up with Capcom to bring collab shirts to Tokyo Game Show 2016 (9/16 - 9/18)! Shirts featuring Street Fighter, Makaimura / Ghosts 'n... |
29 August 2016
Japanese clothing company are giving vintage game fans something to get excited about during Tokyo Game Show next month. While most people who prefer 16 bits to teraflops will be rolling their... |
18 August 2016
Rez is one of the coolest games ever made. Original published on the Dreamcast and PS2 in 2001, the rhythm game by Tetsuya Mizuguchi (who also created Space Channel 5 and... |
16 August 2016
If you're looking for some brain melting game design, check out Bound, which launched for PS4 today, where you play as a contemporary dancer rebuilding a broken world. The game has... |
08 August 2016
Toys based on video games were surprisingly hard to come by in the '80s and '90s. So my jaw would have dropped as a kid if I saw photo of last week's "16 Bit Models" show in Akihabara. The event... |
01 July 2016
Remember Studio Uamou's contribution to the yearly Famicase exhibition? Well now you can play Uamou Invasion and you don't even need a Famicom console. A fan has created a browser-based... |
20 April 2016
A Labyrinth resurgence was sure to happen upon the death of David Bowie, but this project might actually be pretty cool. River Horse Games of Nottingham, England are creating a board game... |
04 February 2016
People think that Pac-Man got his name because Namco though kids would vandalize "Puck-Man" to say "Fuck-man" But that's not true at all. "Pakupaku" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for scarfing down... |
08 September 2016
I still don't really feel like I can justify buying a PS4. But once these two arcade ports come out, my mind will likely change. M2, a company famous for their attention to detail when porting... |
26 August 2016
So there are these big red balls in front of Target stores, which I assume are meant to stop soccer moms from careening their SUVs into the store when Oprah's latest book club pick comes out... |
17 August 2016
I've recently made a major change in my life. I used to save promising books, movies, music, games, etc. for a rainy day. I'd procrastinate from watching a movie that got great reviews until I... |
09 August 2016
It's been a long wait since that mind-blowing reveal trailer in 2013, and it wasn't helped by several last-minute delays, but No Man's Sky is finally out. Unfortunately, the... |
14 July 2016
An officially sanctioned, HDMI-enabled machine that plays NES ROMs? Yup, sold. Nintendo have just announced the NES Classic Edition, which looks like a miniature NES and plugs into your TV... |
16 June 2016
If you were around in the '80s, SEGA's Space Harrier probably blew your mind. The "Rolling Type" versions of the arcade machine featured a motorized seat that moved in... |
31 March 2016
Square Enix dropped a ton of news at last night's Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV event. The most surprising reveals were about supplementary media: A full-length, non-theatrical... |
19 January 2016
The classic capitalist training program Monopoly is getting an amazing "Traditional Japanese Arts & Crafts" special edition. Wooden dolls, teapots, and cart businesses replace the standard... |