The beat-em-up genre tends to stay in its lane. Its tried-and-true arcade format has rarely been deviated from or added onto. There have been some recent attempts at modernizing the genre such as Xbox Game Studios’ live service brawler Towerborne or the open nature of WayForward’s River City Girls games….
If you can believe it, a second Animal Crossing-like knock-off game has appeared on the PlayStation store recently. Dubbed “Anime Village Online,” the sole screenshot available for the game looks not only heavily inspired by Animal Crossing, but almost like an HD mod for New Horizons. Spotted by Redditor YellowFlower69,…
Switch Online subscribers are in for a treat this month. As announced by Nintendo last night, the Super Nintendo App is going to receive a trio of new games for October 2025. One of those is the western debut of Mario & Wario, the 1993 puzzle game developed by Game…
Sabotage Studio’s Sea of Stars, one of last year’s most acclaimed RPGs, was a loving tribute to 16-bit RPGs of old (specifically Chrono Trigger). While I didn’t think there was really anything else the developer could do to layer on more old-school vibes, a new three-player co-op was just teased….
As part of a small update on its most popular franchises yesterday, Capcom announced that a new port of the original Monster Hunter Stories will be heading to Nintendo Switch on June 14th, 2024. Also coming to PC and PlayStation 4 on the same day, the most noticeable change for…
Following the MAR10 Day announcements, we finally got the official release dates for Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. That was the first news about these two titles since they were first announced all the way back in 2023. Needless to say, fans looking forward to…
Happy Mario Day, one and all! To celebrate the day, Nintendo announced quite a few things this morning, including a sequel to the Mario Bros. Movie, release dates for Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Tucked away at the very end of the announcement were three…
Happy Mario Day, everyone! To celebrate, not only did Nintendo announce a sequel to the Super Mario Bros. Movie is in development, but we also got some long-awaited release dates for upcoming Mario titles as well! Let’s start with my most anticipated title of the year: Paper Mario: The…
With the immense popularity of indie puzzler Suika Game, it’s surprising that official merchandise hasn’t yet been made available. That’s soon to change as a trio of green items are coming to brighten up your day. Surprisingly enough, these items aren’t just a ticket to your local supermarket, but an…
When it was first revealed that icons for all three Mother series titles would be coming to Nintendo Switch Online, many fans wondered if the Mother 3 icons would be available in the West. Disappointingly (but not at all surprisingly), the Mother 3 icon elements are indeed only available in…
With the release of the Princess Peach: Showtime! demo on the eShop today, fans have been doing some digging within the game’s files and have made a couple of discoveries. The biggest of these is a codename for the game, which is PJ037. While that normally wouldn’t mean much, that…
We’re mere weeks away from the release of Princess Peach: Showtime!, so it only makes sense that Nintendo would finally release a demo of the game. While not a tremendous sampling of the main game, this new demo will let players experience Swordfighter Peach and Patisserie Peach in short levels….
Two weeks ago it was revealed that the next wave of icons available via Nintendo Switch Online would be themed around the Mother series, in celebration of all three games being available on the Switch in Japan. The schedule for the icons was published on the Japanese Nintendo website and…
Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland is set to release digitally sometime this month on several platforms, including the Nintendo Switch. This new Rugrats game is inspired by several retro platformers, and features Tommy, Chuckie, Lil, and Phil as they adventure around Tommy’s house, which has magically changed into a video game…
The release of Princess Peach: Showtime! is just over two weeks away, and as the date grows ever nearer, more information is coming out. In particular, two new TV ads are now running for the game, featuring heaps of new gameplay footage. They’re around 30 seconds a piece, and they…
