The Battletoads are BACK! Here's a take on the latest 90's franchise aiming to reimagine itself for a new audience!

Leaks in the industry have become dangerously commonplace, undercutting developers and publishers' ability to maintain anticipation for upcoming releases. Capcom now has has been critically struck by hackers that not only leaked the cutscenes of its latest entry in the Resident Evil series, Village, and revealing its plot from start to finish, but…

As the month of November wraps up, it's time for some free game for PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold Members. Worms Rumble debuts as a PlayStation Plus title, alongside Rocket Arena and Just Cause 4. Games With Gold is offers The Raven Remastered, Bleed 2 Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell, and the…

Held back on getting into Rockstar's outlaw frontier trailblazer but wish to forego the offline single player experience? You'll no longer need a copy of Red Dead Redemption 2 in order to play Red Dead Online. Coming next month, digital copies of the online mode will be its own standalone game coming to the PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store,…

Atari games are certainly primitive by even NES and Master System standards, but there was always fascinating appeal to them that made me come back to playing a few, even after we began to amass a varied Nintendo collection by the late 90's. So something as simplistic and self explanatory as Kaboom! was always one of my more addictive…

Paramount's first Sonic the Hedgehog film ended up being quite a hit, surprising audiences with its fairly formulaic plot, yet entertaining and heartwarming sense of adventure and well done performances. Netting $300 million dollars at the box office, and overcoming backlash from an initial trailer that sent the internet in an uproar thanks to…

For the first time in seven years, Nintendo moves in to have an online tournament cancelled for use of their intellectual property. The Big House has been the longest running major Smash Bros tournament in the United States since 2011, hosting Super Smash Bros. Melee. Due to a worldwide pandemic putting an indefinite hiatus on live events and large…

Street Fighter 6 has been speculated to be in development for some time now, even with no official word from Capcom. Street Fighter V Champion Edition's season 5 wasn't necessarily supposed to come to fruition, but internal disagreements within Capcom over the build of Street Fighter 6 and its direction lead it to be scrapped, as its initial…

It's time to delve once again into the 16-bit world of superhero games, as I open up this Tupperware container on a game that was another one of those weekend rentals that helped ostracize me from my peers and family, serving as a barometer for all the wrong decisions I've made with this hobby. Spider-Man & The X-Men in Arcade's Revenge preceded…

In a recent SEGA 60th Anniversary interview with Sega Europe, Daisuke Sato, a lead producer of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios (colloquially known as RGG) was asked about any of Sega's IPs that he never had a chance to work on, which one he had the most interest in. Sato brought up the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and speculated about reinventing what the…

The PlayStation 5 has hit homes over the last several days. Many users still have yet to receive the hardware, but PS5 games and DualSense controllers have been arriving. In the UK, November 19th is the street date, and according to an article from…

November 13 Friday afternoon, an incident was reported that hostages were being held at a Saint-Laurent office building that housed Ubisoft offices. At about 1pm, a phone call to 911 reported that there was an armed robbery and hostages taken. After the call, employees staffed barricaded themselves in offices and on rooftops. A large number of…

In the wake of Obsidian's backyard open world crafting adventure having eclipsed more than 5 million players, the game's largest update is set to expand the playing field even further by introducing the underwater setting of the Koi Pond. The new location boasts swimming mechanics that will allow for greater exploration opportunities, new crafting…

I love me some Castlevania, I talk about the classic linear games an awful lot and I hold them in high regard as examples of superb 2D platforming with great level design, enemy placement, and a strong emphasis on utilizing the intentional flaws in the controls into pinpoint execution. Well, except for Simon's Quest, where the same 'Vania meta didn't…

Exclusives for the Xbox Series X on its launch are getting a little thinner. Bloober Team announced on their Twitter on November 6th that several major issues put the staff in a precarious situation to hold off release of the psychological horror-themed title The Medium from a December 10 2020 street date to January 28…

Want to bring the experience of the arcade classic Dragon's Lair to your home? Sure, it's available in other formats now, but thanks to New Wave Toys, the Don Bluth cinematic adventure can be immortalized in what is a very…

The Friday The 13th game has been marred in development and content limbo since a lawsuit over the intellectual property started in 2017. All things must come to an end, and an official statement that the next patch rollout this November will essentially bring its three year run to a close.

Lead community developer Matt Shotcha wrote about it…

In my near decade long tenure of writing about video games, a few words and phrases that now make my head tilt like hearing an untuned guitar. Dabbling in discussions in the plethora of retro gaming groups, you may be bound to see posts involving key terms like:

- Overrated

- Underrated

-…