In promotion for actor Chris Pine’s directorial debut film Poolman, Danny DeVito has been doing various interviews for publications and YouTube channels. In what will likely be a viral moment for YouTuber “The Movie Dweeb,” DeVito just about stated that he’d love to play Wario in a sequel to the…
This weekend will see a very existential question about the fate of the world be decided via Splatfest battles, but after that players can expect to enter the summer months with a fresh Sizzle Season. In the latest trailer, shown below, we can see the introduction of a new stage,…
At Anime Expo 2024, Sega will be holding a special panel dedicated to all things Shadow the Hedgehog. While the majority of the panel looks to be focused on the upcoming Sonic x Shadow Generations: Dark Beginning animated short, there will be a general discussion about Shadow as a character…
One of my all-time favorite trends in the retro gaming scene over the past few years has to be colorization rom hacks of some of my favorite Game Boy games. Just in the past few years, games like Super Mario Land, Pokémon, and countless others have been lovingly enhanced to…
4/20 is a day with a multitude of very dank meanings, but in the world of video games, it’s the anniversary of some very notable and influential titles indeed – which is to say, it’s once again Fire Mother-kami day, wherein we celebrate the anniversaries of Fire Emblem, Mother 3,…
Few Nintendo characters are as obscure as Foreman Spike, the fellow from Wrecking Crew who hasn’t made another appearance in the sprawling multiverse of Mario crossovers in the past three-plus decades – but he’s returning at last on a very big stage, with a small role in the Super Mario…
The Final Fantasy franchise holds a special place in the hearts of gamers worldwide. What began as a passion project by a dedicated team of developers at SquareSoft in Japan has grown into a billion dollar franchise with 16 numbered entries and a plethora of spinoffs, ranging from kart racing…
It’s that time of the month where the rumor mill churns, and the speculation this time is certainly eyebrow-raising – a Famiboards poster has claimed that a remaster of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is headed to Nintendo Switch. The self-described hobby journalist (who in their own account has…
Nostalgia is the greatest graphics filter of all, but sometimes a head-to-head comparison can illuminate the real sharper image – such is the case with this head-to-head graphical comparison for Pokémon Stadium on the N64 vs. the Switch, courtesy of GameXplain: In general, the Switch image is brighter…
Few video game movie adaptations have become as much of a punchline as 1993’s Super Mario Bros., a maelstrom of bad decisions involving fights on set, harried rewrites, drunken actors, and just a general lack of cinematic anything. Nintendo and Mario franchise creator Shigeru Miyamoto weren’t really involved in that…
In a bold move, Dolphin – the well-known emulator of GameCube and Wii hardware – is headed to massive gaming platform Steam. Its release on the platform has a target release date of Q2, and will be free to download, as it is on non-Steam platforms (PC, Mac, Linux, Android). …
When you walk away, you don’t hear me say “it’s Kingdom Hearts 21st anniversary.” Actually, you do, because it is! The first Kingdom Hearts game debuted on the PlayStation 2 in Japan 21 years ago, on March 28th, 2002. Today marks 21 years of Kingdom Hearts! Thank you all…
Sonic and pinball have been interlinked practically since the very beginning, with the blue blur’s ability to roll up into a ball being a perfect match for being flung around with flippers and bumpers. The Sega Genesis’ Sonic Spinball was the first game to focus entirely on that concept, however,…
2023 is shaping up to be a big year for the Mega Man Battle Network series, with all of the original entries getting their own Legacy Collection in just a matter of weeks on April 14th. There’s something else worth celebrating before that big launch day, though. The original Battle…
Gaming archaeologists are always digging up cool and interesting finds, and a particularly old discovery has been made today – a prototype map from Super Mario World all the way from 1989, initially found as part of the Nintendo “gigaleak” of 2020 and freshly de-corrupted by codfish1002: Super Mario…
