Nintendo claims another victory in their fight against the advocacy of video game emulation, as the results of the 2024 lawsuit will see the manufacturer Yuzu pay the developer/publisher $2.4 million dollars in a settlement ruled on March 4th. Nintendo launched the lawsuit last week, citing copyright infringement and the circumvention of Nintendo's…

Sure, the Games With Gold program may be a thing of the past, but that doesn't mean that new pieces of software aren't making their way to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. For the month of March, we will see the first big addition to the subscription service following the closure of the Activision Blizzard deal, as Diablo IV makes its way to Game…

One of the casualties of Microsoft's mass layoffs in January that saw 1900 employees cut from Activision Blizzard and Xbox divisions, long-time game programming studio Toys For Bob saw 89 of its staff sent home and its offices in Novato closed down in January. On February 29th, the Spyro Reignited Trilogy developer announced on their…

For subscribers of PlayStation Plus, here's the rollout for the free pieces of digital software you can download for March. Members of PS Plus Essential, Extra, and Premium tiers will have access to these four games across the PS5 and PS4 consoles. 

From EA Sports, it's the formula racer F1 23. From developers Dynamic…

Yesterday, The Pokémon Company group revealed Pokémon Legends: Z-A, a new video game, during a special Pokémon Presents video presentation. Streamed online to fans around the world on Pokémon Day — the…

The beloved Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) franchise continues to evolve with the debut of Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, a new app that reimagines the experience of collecting…

As major changes make their way to Sony's entertainment division, a sizable slash to all of their divisions has been seen. On Tuesday, the San Mateo-based games publishing and development holdings company announced that 900 employees across SIE's offices will be let go, according to a…

Every journey has to begin somewhere...but I don't intend to review the very first Street Fighter quite yet. That would require playing it again, and I currently have more urgent tasks ahead of that, like individually plucking my nose hairs with a pair of rusty pliers. Instead, I'll be taking a look at what I had greatly anticipated; a brand NEW…

One of the video game industry's most recognized music producers and composers is responsible for some of the medium's most memorable scores, Nobuo Uematsu's influence on generations of fans and talent within the business resonates within the games he's contributed towards, from Rad Racer to Square Enix's Final Fantasy series, and…

The Mortal Kombat 1 Kombat Pack continues its additions to the MK1 roster, and starting off 2024 with Suicide Squad star Peacemaker. With the voice work provided by John Cena, Netherrealm Studios captures the over-the-top mannerisms and spirit of the chaotic mercenary, as he joins the roster in early March, succeeding Invincible's Omni-Man and the…

The new release section of the Pokémon Center website has been overflowing with items lately! Below is a roundup of everything over the last few weeks...

New home…

EA Sports' college gridiron video game will make its return this summer for the first time since NCAA Football 2014 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. With its return, the over 11,000 collegiate players will have an opportunity to have their likeness represented in the game. Based on…

A part of the Nintendo Direct Partners Showcase, some offerings for the Nintendo Switch Online Service + Expansion Pack this month comes courtesy of the Xbox-owned studio Rare. Known throughout their relationship with Nintendo over the decades, some classics from the NES, SNES, and the Nintendo 64 are made available to NSO subscribers.

For the…

I can talk about SNK-produced fighting games until I'm blue in the face. Or type about them until I'm numb in the fingers, in this instance. However, there's much that can be said about their sports games, which are very interesting to me. If I put aside Windjammers (co-produced by Data East), Neo Turf Masters was the first sports game I played at an…

It appears that Nintendo's next generation incarnation of the Nintendo Switch will most likely be ready to debut in 2025. This information comes courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz…

Japanese studio FromSoftware now completely owns the trademark rights completely to their action RPG Elden Ring from Bandai Namco, who served as publisher of the game. The changes of ownership had gone into motion around April  23rd 2023, as the studio seeks to increase its ambitions, according to a report by…

So...the PlayStation 5 is having an interesting lifespan. While sitting fairly comfortable atop the conventional console market, Sony's forecast dictates some potential financial issues the brand may be facing.

According to…

Splatoon 3 will be rolling out new single player content in the form of this roguelite campaign mode. In Side Order, you play as a resident Octoling of Inkopolis named Agent 8. You wake up in a world of order, where the color spectrum is reduced to uniform shades of white. Assisted by a drone that's claiming to be Pearl, the former host of Off the…

Hudson Soft's library of games are some that I have not taken full advantage of talking about here on the Retro of Reboots. Their influence gets overlooked, mostly due to the larger publishing and development giants throughout the 80's, 90's, and 2000's. They manufactured the TurboGrafx-16 console, a pretty cool machine that got DEMOLISHED by the…

Palworld certainly caught the world by storm. Since its release, creature-based resource managing survival game has seen a player count peak at 2 million active players, riding its controversial designs that seemingly emulate Nintendo's adorable pocket monsters (enough to provoke a response from Pokemon developer Game Freak, as they begin seeking an…