The beat-em-up genre tends to stay in its lane. Its tried-and-true arcade format has rarely been deviated from or added onto. There have been some recent attempts at modernizing the genre such as Xbox Game Studios’ live service brawler Towerborne or the open nature of WayForward’s River City Girls games….
If you can believe it, a second Animal Crossing-like knock-off game has appeared on the PlayStation store recently. Dubbed “Anime Village Online,” the sole screenshot available for the game looks not only heavily inspired by Animal Crossing, but almost like an HD mod for New Horizons. Spotted by Redditor YellowFlower69,…
Switch Online subscribers are in for a treat this month. As announced by Nintendo last night, the Super Nintendo App is going to receive a trio of new games for October 2025. One of those is the western debut of Mario & Wario, the 1993 puzzle game developed by Game…
The folks over at Nintendo Life recently got a chance to sit down with Intelligent Systems, the developers of Fire Emblem Engage, to talk about the game and its various facets. While the initial aspects of the interview focused on the game’s departure from Three Houses and its Fell Xenologue…
As an evolution of the classic Sonic leg of the wider Sonic The Hedgehog franchise, Sonic Superstars features the classic era quartet of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy. But after he was absent from the modern Sonic Frontiers, fans of Shadow the Hedgehog are getting restless, and Shacknews – in…
Not even gonna bother with lead in for this one. Just watch this: the wacko boingo #TearsOfTheKingdom pic.twitter.com/V25CfvIA33 — jamie ▴ (@linkkling) June 18, 2023 Yup, that’s Link taking off like a rocket-fueled jet plane from the ground level of Hyrule using nothing but a Star Fragment and…
One of the most exciting parts of Kirby and the Forgotten Land were copy ability upgrades, whereby collecting blueprints and paying a fee you could turn a copy ability into a newer, shinier version of itself. Well, a handful of these upgrades are now receiving the true sign of Kirby…
While Pokémon Quest has only really maintained relevance in China thanks to an expanded version of the game being released via the region’s app stores in 2021, the game’s adorable, chunky style still has a universal appeal. The Cube-Shaped Pokémon on Cubie Island series of shorts got its start in…
Last week during the Xbox Game Showcase, Sega and Atlus revealed the rumored Persona 3 remake in the form of Persona 3 Reload, and a few days later the game was confirmed for PlayStation and PC, leaving Switch players without an announcement. That could be changing, though. Up until now…
Guillermo del Toro cares a lot about animation, his first (and if he gets his way, last) love in filmmaking. During a recent filmmaking masterclass at the Annecy International Animation Festival, del Toro went off (and I mean, really went off) on the homogenized nature of commercial animation. But in…
Time to journey in the Sinnoh region! Bundle up tight and take your trusty seed turtle with you – the Kotobukiya ARTFX J scaled figure of Dawn from Pokémon Platinum and her companion Turtwig is coming. The ⅛ scaled figure releases by the end of the year, in December. …
It was recently discovered that striking stakes in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom produces a pitch, and different lengths of stake (and attachment of other stakes to them) changes the sound. With this in mind, it’s possible to create contraptions that play musical phrases. And scores of…
DOOM is the game notorious for running on anything, but how about good old fashioned lawyering drama on… the NES? Two Github users, Safyrus and Alas Diablo, are demaking the first Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney game to run on the Nintendo Entertainment System. So apparently some absolute lunatic is…
Few video game publishers can claim to have as strong a music library as Square Enix, so it’s no surprise the company has made a habit of releasing music boxes featuring iconic tunes from its franchises, like Final Fantasy. Yoko Shimomura’s work on Kingdom Hearts is perhaps one of the…
For the past few months Pokémon Trading Card Game players in Japan have been gearing up for a nostalgic throwback in the form of the 151 Expansion, which brings together the original Kanto Pokémon for the first time in decades, thanks to Kadabra’s reintegration to the game. Now, we have…
