The studio behind Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD has finally been revealed, after a period of silence from Nintendo on the matter. VGC has confirmed that the game’s credits reveal the developer behind the game as Tantalus Media, which was previously responsible for Skyward Sword HD and Twilight Princess HD. The…
If you’re a Pikmin fan, you would probably agree that these last few years have been amazing for the franchise. From the release of Pikmin 3 Deluxe, ports of the first two games, and the long-awaited arrival of Pikmin 4, it’s been a resounding new era for the series. For…
A new app has been released allowing for Game Boy emulation on the Apple Watch. ArcEmu is a $1.99 emulator on the App Store which supports original Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance ROMs. Developer Raffaele D’Amato broke down the app’s features on Reddit, which includes 60fps…
Out of the blue a new update has dropped for Nintendo Switch Online’s Sega Genesis app, bringing with it four new retro games! The selection is quite the eclectic one, but perhaps the biggest game of the bunch is Columns. This puzzler can be seen as Sega’s answer to Tetris…
The Wonder Boy/Monster World franchise has had a great time on Switch, from remasters of classic titles to an all-new entry. Now it’s set to get a retro love letter as Bliss Games is bringing a bunch of games together from many different platforms. The Wonder Boy Anniversary…
Hoist a sail and set out to sea to save your sister – The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is 20 years old today, having released on December 13th, 2002 in Japan. The third 3D Zelda game made, and the first on a console besides the N64, the game…
Oh, how I’ve missed the big, stupid noses of Snowboard Kids. These fan favorites from the N64 days are known for that signature aesthetic and unique twists on familiar kart racing gameplay, but they’ve got another thing going — their soundtracks! In the absence of any news on re-releases (or…
Is it time for the crystal comeback? The Pixel Remasters of Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV, V, and VI, which all released on Steam earlier this year, appear to be headed to both PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, with listings on the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB, the rating…
Hobonichi – Shigesato Itoi’s company for news, merchandise, and some very well known book planners – is adding some EarthBound related merch that will debut soon at select storefronts across Japan. First is a selection of refrigerator magnets sold separately: Ness, Dr. Saturn, the Ultimate Chimera, and the Worthless Protoplasm….
Recently Square Enix has been embracing YouTube as a platform for official soundtrack downloads, though most of those are purely just the music. This latest project, however, is tying the iconic tunes to video footage. The Video Soundtrack series only includes a few Final Fantasy I tracks right now, namely…
The SNES era was a golden age of RPGs for Square, with titans like Chrono Trigger, Live A Live, and Super Mario RPG pushing the boundaries of video game storytelling during the medium’s adolescence. And of course the series at the forefront of this was the legendary Final Fantasy franchise,…
If you are a ’80s or ’90s kid, chances are you know a thing or two about Tiger Electronics and the famous Tiger Handhelds. They were cheap, they were hard to play, but gosh darn it, we loved them — I did, at least. For those of you out of…
The quarterly report for the first half of the fiscal year continues, as Nintendo has published a summary of a recent investor Q&A with head honchos of the company, from President Shuntaro Furukawa to Director Shinya Takahashi. One of the questions asked dealt with previous software being playable on current…
Few games are more cult classic this point than Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the DS mystery adventure game by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi. Despite a huge amount of love from basically everyone who’s ever played it, the game has lied dormant since its release year of 2010 — until…
You know Yasunori Mitsuda, right? The beyond legendary composer of Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, most Xeno- games, and countless others. Well, in what is usually a fun, mildly goofy trivia fact, he also composed music for the original Mario Party: which, as it turns out, was a hellish experience. MP…
