After announcing the initial deal back in January of 2022, and going through the court hearings from the Federal Trade Commission, and Sony's CEO Jim…

Ah, the late aughts. It was around this period where open world action games were hitting their peak, before Grand Theft Auto V would essentially shut down everything else from western developers. Some had brief runs, like Just Cause, Watchdogs, and Saints Row, before flaming out. Prototype was one of those titles that seemed like it had a great deal…

Microsoft has been a studio on a buying spree in recent years. Along with purchasing development teams like Hellblade series developer Ninja Theory and Obsidian (The Outer Worlds), there was also the much publicized acquisition of…

The F-Zero series gets a breath of fresh air...sort of. Nintendo's exclusive high speed racer franchise, which has been dormant for quite a long time, sees new life on the Nintendo Switch Online Service. Very similar to the Tetris and the now-defunct Pac-Man multiplayers, F-Zero 99 is a battle royale which pits you against 98 other racers to reach…

For the second time, Konami has turned to game developer and publisher Wayforward (Shantae and the Seven Sirens, Spidersaurs, River City Girls) to bring their classic run-n-gun series back for another run. Announced during today's Nintendo Direct September 2023 was Contra: Operation Galuga, which will be coming to all platforms. Wayforward and Konami…

Square Enix, the role-playing game giant known for flagship franchises like the Final Fantasy series and Dragon Quest, has seen a 30% market share dip, costing up to a lose in nearly $2,000,000,000. This is based on a report released Wednesday that while this is higher than the share price as of last May, this downturn is due to Square Enix not…

EA has stated that a new Sims game is in the works, and its structure will be presented differently from its predecessor. According to a report by Video Games Chronicle, Sims 5, which is currently going under the codename "Project Rene", will feature both single player and online multiplayer co-op. Earlier this summer, a job advertisement briefly…

The utility of the Wii U will go down as one of the great mysteries of modern gaming. I think its Gamepad has some promise that could've overcome some of the more cumbersome elements, but the marketing left people scratching their heads. One of the criticisms at the time was some games that either relied too heavily on the dual screen and touch pad…

Former Konami developer and game producer Koji Igarashi celebrates its 2 million game copies sold worldwide for Bloodstained:Ritual of the Night. Developed by Artplay and published by 505 Games, Bloodstained was launched as a Kickstarter campaign by Igarashi a year following his departure from Konami in 2015. …

Swedish media holdings company Embracer Group is back in the news again. The talks center around the conglomerate parting ways with one of the studios under its already massive umbrella. According to a report from…

Some new additions to the Nintendo Switch Online Service have been announced. Coming for the Super Nintendo, the puzzle game starring HAL's pink marshmallow, Kirby's Star Stacker. The offerings for the NES, from the Kunioverse line of games comes Downtown Nekketsu March: Super-Awesome Field Day! and Joy Mech Fight. And finally for the…

The U.S. Pokémon Center made a huge update to their website today with a release of Halloween-themed Pokémon merch! …

A shocker, me talking about another Data East game. The studio that is responsible for many of my early arcade memories and NES home ports, their stuff always ended up on my shelf, and in this review section. BurgerTime, like Ms. Pac-Man and Galaga, ended up being quite the token muncher whenever I had a chance to hit up an arcade. …

Super Mario Bros. Wonder will be the first side-scrolling Mario game since 2012's New Super Mario Bros, for the Wii U. Recently, Nintendo held a Treehouse Live event, where the hosts went over the first couple of levels of the newest entry in the series. What can be expected from the latest adventure featuring Mario and his pals?

Wonder takes…

Volition, a game studio that has been around for three decades, had its doors shuttered down by Swedish parent company Embracer Group. The developer, based out of Chicago, Illinois, had become a part of Embracer Group's large acquisition following Koch Media's purchase of the former THQ's bankruptcy. As a part of a massive restructuring, Volition…

September is right around the corner, so it's time for Sony's list of free games coming next month. This line is very open-world centric, as gamers will have a chance to access the Saint's Row reboot on the PS5 and PS4. From Avalanche Studios comes Generation Zero for PlayStation 4 owners. And finally, the MMORPG Black Desert.

These games will…

Earlier this year, PlayStation restructured PlayStation Plus by combining the PSNow service with the standard Plus membership, creating PSPlus tiers; Essential, Extra, and Premium. Initially, if you already had the standard membership, you'd get the same bonuses with no change in the tier you were paying for. 

That's set to change, as with the…

Final Fantasy VII, for both better and worse, was one of the JRPGs (yeah, I still call them JRPGs) that bridged a gap between the mid-range gaming enthusiast and the world of role-playing games. Pokemon also played a large part in ushering them into the hands of your regular gamer, but when it came to robust stories and themes, Final Fantasy and its…

Gamescom was a packed weekend of video game rollouts, and among the trailers was South Korean publisher/developer Nexom's latest multiplayer offering, The First Descendants. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The First Descendants has both single player and multiplayer missions players can partake in throughout this third-person action RPG.…

For the first time in over a decade, a new game in FromSoftware's mech-based action franchise has launched on consoles and PC with its sixth mainline entry. While Hidetaka Miyazaki made the challenge curve in the Dark Souls series a ubiquitous mantra across the gaming community, and achieved worldwide success, the Armored Core games' difficulty was a…