Yesterday afternoon we witnessed a devastating loss to the video games industry. In another round of layoffs that seems to happen every week, WB Games announced it would be closing three studios. These were Player First Games (Multiversus), WB San Diego (which had not yet announced its game), and Monolith…
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…
It’s very bizarre to hear executives from Microsoft talking about the Nintendo Switch 2, but ever since the company’s pivot to multi-platform development took hold, we’ve been hearing more and more from Team Green about games on other platforms. During the Official Xbox Podcast yesterday, Xbox Games Studio head Craig…
It’s that time of month once again, when Nintendo tries to excite us with its rollout of NES titles paired with your Switch Online subscription. This month it’s a pair of solid picks and a couple of SP surprises, available now via an update to the service’s app. New…
Justice comes to all who err on the side of crime. It has been a known truth that one T. Yoshisaurus Munchakoopas, more colloquially known by the common nickname Yoshi, is a chronic tax dodger, avoiding audit after audit in a relentless and clever elusion of federal law. Part of…
Some games are incredibly easy to identify from across an arcade, and near that top of that list for me is Out Run. First released in 1986, the sit down cab and bright design mimicked its in-game ride and captured a certain, special feel immediately. Once you started playing it…
Nintendo Switch Online’s NES game library has been contentious to say the least since the service launched back in September, with a slow drip feed of iconic titles gradually filling up the library. If a new datamine is anything to go by, though, the service could be getting a…
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Another month, another batch of new games for the Nintendo Switch Online’s NES service. Some more unmitigated classics are coming, as both the original Blaster Master and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link make their way to the service. For those unaware, Blaster Master is a proto-Metroidvania where players take…
Arcade1Up has been bringing retro fans a compact and affordable way to play yesteryear’s classics, and that’s not about to stop in the new year. It’s been announced that five more cabinets are going to be produced, with some releasing as early as next month and with enough variety across…
We always wonder “what might have been,” especially in regards to cancelled or stopgapped game projects. Case in point: Headcannon, one of the developers behind the excellent Sonic Mania, pitched a Darkwing Duck game to Capcom that was never picked up. The game was styled a bit like Ducktales Remastered,…
One of the best, most recurring Nintendo easter eggs is whenever “Totaka’s Song” pops up. Usually well hidden or requiring direct player input (or rather, a lack thereof) to start it up, this latest discovery of it comes from a game that already featured the song in a different spot….
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Just days after the 20th anniversary of Sonic Adventure, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka has fans dreaming of a remake of the hedgehog’s first true foray into 3D. In an interview with Retro Gamer, Iizuka said that 20 years later, he can see the rough edges in the game, and…
