3D collectathon platformers occupy the same lane for me as comfort food or an AC/DC album. They’re reliable, and no matter how much time passes, I can always return to them and feel familiarity. Of course, the best 3D platformers that leave their mark on history end up feeling more…
Hamster Corporation has announced that the classic Namco arcade game Air Combat 22 will be heading to its Arcade Archives series for modern platforms. As the sequel to the industry defining Air Combat, Air Combat 22 expanded the gameplay by allowing players to select different aircraft to carry out their…
Limited Run Games is back with a brand-new lineup of merchandise based on a classic Sega title. To honor the 25th anniversary of Jet Set Radio, you can now get a whole slew of shirts, plushes, trading cards, and keychains to show your love for Beat and the crew. While…
Ash Ketchum’s time in the Pokémon anime is coming to an end in Japan, and now we have confirmation for when the follow-up series will make its debut in the region. As confirmed in a new clip, the new series will start on April 14th, 2023. It will follow the…
The arrival of Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games via Nintendo Switch Online was a big deal in this week’s Nintendo Direct, but there was a conspicuous absence – Pokémon. Besides a tease of the Trading Card Game adaptation to come later, the mainline RPGs that got their start…
In the slew of announcements from the February 8th Nintendo Direct, one of the most surprising was Birdo’s return as a playable racer in the Mario Kart series. Before word came of Birdo’s inclusion in Wave 4 of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass, the general impression…
The next game from the makers of the Danganronpa series finally has a release date. Shown in the latest Nintendo Direct via a new trailer, Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE will be bringing its stylized take on mystery solving to Switch this June. In it, we see some…
For a small set of people out there, this might’ve been the Nintendo Direct announcement from the February 2023 presentation. You can say that about any game, really, but Capcom’s relatively unsung Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is the only one with a top pomeranian. Missile aside, Ghost Trick…
Sea of Stars, Sabotage Studios’ anticipated followup to The Messenger, feels more real than ever. Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct not only gave us the game’s release date, but dropped a surprise demo onto the eShop as well. This demo spans roughly the first hour of the game, and serves…
Along with the full reveal of its new Magolor Epilogue, Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe’s main draw in the latest Nintendo Direct was the announcement of an eShop demo. Available now, you’ll find both stages and sub games within that can all be enjoyed by up to four players!…
Sega is good at a lot of things, and among them is monkeys. Super Monkey Ball? Sega. The Tetris game with the monkey? Sega. And then there’s the Dreamcast era rhythm game that literally shook things up, Samba de Amigo. Amigo and his band of fellow funky friends haven’t been…
Every puzzle has an answer, and the conundrum of where one Hershel Layton has been for nearly a decade has finally been solved – everybody’s favorite brainteaser busting gentleman of a professor is coming back in Professor Layton and The New World of Steam. Layton last appeared in…
Fantasy Life was one of many underrated gems in the Nintendo 3DS library, a cutesy RPG that placed just as much value on the humble activities you can do around a village as the epic battles and questlines. While the game did get a little known sequel in Fantasy Life…
While trademarks had leaked previously, it was still a surprise to see the Baten Kaitos duology appear with a remaster during yesterday’s Direct. The games, developed by the team at Monolith Soft (Xenoblade, Xenosaga), originally released for the GameCube but they’ll be getting a new coat of paint this time…
After yesterday’s Nintendo Direct we brought you the news that the Japanese version featured a couple of exclusive announcements, including a remake of Koei Tecmo’s very first game in the Atelier series. Now we have confirmation that the game will be localized! The origin of the "Atelier" series is…
