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…
Ubisoft released two big games over the 2022 holiday season but it turns out their financial performance left something to be desired at the company. In a recent press release, co-founder Yves Guillemot outright stated he was “clearly disappointed by [the company’s] recent performance”, specifically citing both Mario + Rabbids:…
Well, it finally happened – there are over a thousand Pokémon in existence. A big 1,000. Well, 1,008 technically. And while it’s unlikely that all of these many Pokémon types will ever be found in the same game together, it’s still worth celebrating the whole bunch of them – as…
The Ver. 1.2.0 patch for Bayonetta 3 was released recently, and while it’s not an online competitive game, the folks at PlatinumGames have made a lot of little changes to the game’s parameters. Some of these include the following: Tweaks to Viola’s Block and Witch Time Other slight changes…
There’s just a little over a month until Valentine’s Day and while this latest announcement may not be deliberately timed, it could be the perfect gift for a Pokémon loving partner. The Wand Company has released a variety of die-cast Poké Ball replicas over the past few years and in…
In just about a month we’ll all be returning to Dream Land with Kirby in the grand remake of his Wii adventure. Previously we’d seen visual updates, the new Mecha ability, and changes to its sub-game lineup. That’s not all that’s new though, as the opening of the Kirby’s Return…
First 4 Figures has been producing gaming statues for years, covering plenty of popular bases. Today though, they’ve done something a little different — they’re asking fans to help them greenlight a new product line. Not just any product line either, but a statue series based on Sonic the Hedgehog’s…
The grand opening of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Hollywood is only a month away, and the previews continue to roll in. After a wave of pictures last week, the same outlet – MiceChat.com – has released a preview video of what we can expect at the park. …
Yesterday on Masahiro Sakurai’s YouTube channel, the director continued his chronological account of which games he’s directed this year, this time chronicling the beloved 2003 GameCube classic Kirby Air Ride. But contrary to what you might have presumed for the last Kirby game he’d direct, he didn’t have the director’s…
Tales of Symphonia Remastered is nearly here, standing proud in a release window full of new JRPG competition. The series may be decades past Symphonia’s original release at this point, and yet this redone return has me just as excited as when it graced the cover of Nintendo Power back…
Whether you’re a fan of New Year resolutions that involve fitness or you simply enjoy a good match in Nintendo Switch Sports, Switch Online’s newest icons are bringing players some athletic-themed designs to the masses. Available until January 16th, you have your choice of golf and Sportsmates icons to choose…
With Ash’s exit from the Pokémon anime rapidly approaching in Japan, the ongoing series final few episodes are going all-out with the fanservice. As a few confirmed titles have revealed, Misty will return to battle Ash, Brock will team up with fellow cook Cilan from the Black & White series,…
Few unique video game controllers have had a lasting legacy quite like the GameCube’s, with every Nintendo console since the purple lunchbox supporting the iconic originals. Third-party peripheral maker NYXI has attempted to build on the classics, though, with the new NYXI Wizard Wireless Joy-pad featuring the same layout with…
