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…
After coming to light a few days ago, GrimGrimoire OnceMore has been fully announced by Nippon Ichi Software for release later this year. Alongside a trailer, the strategy game’s website is also live, granting plenty of screenshots and elaboration on previously reported additions as well as the game’s box art. …
The period-set prequel to the Ace Attorney series appears to have done quite well for Capcom, with the publisher announcing that The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles has sold over 500,000 units worldwide. The news comes from an official tweet, complete with new artwork marking the milestone. YES! #TheGreatAceAttorney Chronicles…
As promised, the very first Mario Golf game (albeit not the first golf game starring Mario, long story) has arrived on Nintendo Switch via the Online subscription’s Nintendo 64 library. You can check out a trailer for the game, with some delightfully retro text boxes, below: There are…
A couple of weeks ago, Square Enix’s opened an official music channel on YouTube and over the weeks it has shared some beautiful piano renditions of some classic Final Fantasy tunes. If you’re a Final Fantasy VI fan then it’s your turn as a new video has been uploaded! …
Being environmentally conscious with Kirby? The pink puffball is just a gift that keeps on giving: as is the case with this Kirby and the Forgotten Land Shopping Bag now available through My Nintendo, reversible, compact, and decorated with his impossibly adorable puffed-up face. I love it. I love him….
Stop EVERYTHING: The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in March in Europe, up over 9% from last year. Isn’t that essential to know? Don’t you crave more of this mind juice? To drink the sweet nectar of raw data down your brain gullet? I know you do, you filthy…
The act of catching creatures is giving way to the act of caring for them — Niantic has revealed its next AR game offering, titled Peridot, a virtual pet game where you can walk around the real world and interact with your pet, like a fusion between Pokémon GO and…
We’re a month and a half out from the continuation of one of Capcom’s finest and our 2021 Game of the Year, Monster Hunter Rise. The Sunbreak expansion details have been fairly scarce, with just a handful of monsters revealed so far. Today though, we’ve gotten two new videos to…
There are few bits of clothing apparel more associated with football (and yeah, I’m calling it football, I’m trying to be respectful of the lingo) than the scarf, almost as iconic to the beautiful game as flopping, faces of disbelief when refs give you a red card, and fans literally…
Later this year, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge will bring the ninjitsu turtle brothers’ arcade adventures to the modern era of beat ‘em ups. While the game is still in development, Dotemu has published a behind the scenes video of the title. Below, viewers can watch Tribute Games’ studio…
April has been a busy month of announcements for Pikmin Bloom, and the updates seemingly are not stopping any time soon. Niantic and Nintendo’s mobile application has been updated to version 43.0. While the update may not provide a noteworthy overhaul or any major additional content, Pikmin Bloom has received…
The force is strong with this one. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is starting off with a trip into hyperspace for launch week as UK sales figures have shown superb results. According to GSD (via Eurogamer), the latest LEGO title from TT Games is currently the second-largest physical launch…
