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…
A flood of Xbox users are rushing to cancel their Game Pass subscriptions today, after Microsoft announced a substantial increase in prices for the service – including a 50% increase for its highest tier. BlueSky user Wario64 reported that the official Xbox webpage for cancellations became “overloaded,” presumably due to…
Here we go! Three Mario & Yoshi statues are now up for pre-order over at First 4 Figures, and we’ve got all the details so you can choose the best option. The Mario & Yoshi statues are a re-release, coming just in time for Super Mario Galaxy 1+2’s release on…
In the only bit of Conker’s Bad Fur Day news you’ll hear for the next decade, First 4 Figures has announced that it will soon be selling a statue that recreates the original N64 box art for the title. Dubbed the “Game Cover” statue, a small preview video on the…
After announcing a partnership between Ubisoft and Tencent earlier this year, both companies have now revealed the name of the new joint studio that will be handling Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed, and Rainbow Six in the future: Vantage Studios. Composed of roughly 2,300 employees across different branches of Ubisoft, the…
In a rather incredible bit of video game preservation, Namco’s first ever video game Gee Bee will soon be getting an Arcade Archives release across all platforms. The first ever re-release for the game since its 1978 debut, Gee Bee was designed by Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani after the company…
Get ready, cause it’s almost Showtime! Princess Peach: Showtime! has been added to Nintendo Music, bringing 73 tracks to the music service. Coming in at a runtime of one hour and 45 minutes, let’s take a look at the tracklist. Entrancing Prelude Opening Welcome to Sparkle Theater Grape’s Arrival…
Not only is Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds a dark horse rising to take on some massive kart racing competition, it’s more than up to the task. As the first fully cross-platform kart racer (the game is on everything from PlayStation 4 to Switch 2), it takes pole position as the most…
It will never cease to amaze me the kind of projects people get up to. Not content to have their Game Boy Micro go to waste, one Redditor by the name of MaSaKee modded the internals of Nintendo’s smallest handheld device into the famous N64 controller. The result is a…
Teased ahead of launch, the recently released Shinobi: Art of Vengeance will be getting a DLC stage with cameos from popular Sega villains. The first antagonist announced was Dr. Eggman from the Sonic series, but Sega has now revealed that Death Adder from Golden Axe will be squaring off against…
In a new interview with Famitsu, Yakuza Kiwami 3 director Ryosuke Horii was asked questions about the development of the remake with a focus being on the new expansion, “Dark Ties.” A prequel story that details the rise of antagonist Yoshitaka Mine, it appears that the plan was originally not…
Reviews for Nintendo’s upcoming rereleases of Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are out now, and they paint a mostly positive picture. While no one is particularly happy about the price, it’s undeniable that these games are still masterpieces some 15+ years later. One of the more common complaints is…
Raid Hour (also referred to as Legendary Raid Hour) started as an experiment in March 2019. Initially called Legendary Lunch Hour, Niantic set aside an hour on Wednesdays for Pokémon GO Trainers to find 5-Star (Legendary) Raids easier by increasing the appearance rates. After further testing, Raid Hour was renamed…
