Ready Player One promises pop culture mashup and Battletoads

Author: Bryan Finch
Categories: Retro

The newest trailer for Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg’s long-awaited film adaptation of the Ernest Cline novel, showed off so many licensed characters and vehicles, it’d make a copyright lawyer blackout. On top of characters like The Joker, Chucky (the haunted doll, not the Rugrat) and KITT from Knight Rider,…

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Resident Evil was originally an SNES title

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Retro

With Mega Man 11 as the publication’s latest cover story, Game Informer has had the opportunity to sit down and interview a variety of Capcom employees. While most of these conversations promise to focus on Mega Man as a franchise, a little tidbit gives us a glimpse at the history…

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A look at Xenoblade’s history and legacy

Categories: Switch, Retro

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 releases this Friday, the last of Nintendo’s big releases for the year. But calling what should be a niche JRPG a “big release” is, in and of itself, a rather intriguing thing. Most wouldn’t call the Xenoblade franchise – or its spiritual predecessors – big names in…

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