With the 20th anniversary of Xbox hardware being celebrated, a large number of Xbox titles were made available in a large update, which would end up being their FINAL additions. The 70 new games added includes F.E.A.R. and F.E.A.R. 3, , the Dead Or Alive Ultimate NIER, and the entire Max Payne series. The Game Fix podcast went over some of the notable…

With character trailers that have been rolled out on a weekly (and sometimes biweekly) basis throughout 2021, SNK is closing in on King of Fighters XV's completion, giving fans more details about the game's build and design.

After the Chinajoy expo held back in early August, which revealed story info and the two newest characters for the latest…

The cat may have been let out of the bag in late October when early design templates were leaked, but Warner Bros. Games has made it official. Taking the many intellectual properties under their umbrella, WB Games announces MultiVersus, their new crossover party fighter that throws their hat into the Super Smash Bros field of fighting…

Generally known for their fighting games, this is certainly new territory for the Dragonball franchise, as it tries its aim at asymmetrical 7-v-1 co-op survival gameplay with the announcement of Dragonball: The Breakers. Taking a page out of Dead By Daylight, Dragonball: The Breakers takes place in the Cell arc.

Imperfect Cell, controlled by…

While MKII remains one of my favorite entries in the series, Mortal Kombat 3 was a more pivotal game in terms of lore, and for good and bad reasons (the reasons are of my own opinion, mind you). The arcades were still booming at this time and fighting games were in the beginning of their golden age. Mortal Kombat remained a viable western alternative…

343's latest installment in the Halo franchise is less than a month away. Seemingly out of nowhere, a multiplayer beta has become available for PC and Steam, along with Xbox Series X|S consoles, leading up to its release in December. There were some initial issues the app was having with a blue screen and an update was issued to remove the…

Formally announced alongside a plethora of news from Marvel Studios, X-Men '97 will be a revival of the 90's animated series, picking up where the original series has left off. According to The Wrap, we have learned that living voice actors…

Jump FORCE is an arena fighting game with the all-star lineup from many of the manga and anime characters featured in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump coming together to celebrate the publication's 50th anniversary in a 3D clash that was released in 2018. With notable personalities from series such as Fist of the North Star, Death Note,…

In a move the company has been experimenting with for a couple months, YouTube has decided to remove the thumbs down results from publicly posted videos. This choice has been said to help avoid dislike attacks, the act of mass thumbs-downing particular videos, on smaller channels. The company wants to improve inclusivity and feels this would be a step…

Another one of those Sega games that truly showed those peon fans of the 8-bit grey box Nintendo what they were missing out on by not owning a Mega Drive, Altered Beast helped roll in the rebellious attitude to gaming. But is this game actually good? I can't say that this one made its way into our system when we were younger more than other Genesis…

For the last year and a half, rumors about Sega being up for sale have been an on and off again topic, piquing in interest after Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda's parent company ZeniMax Media. In its recent earnings report, seems like anything but is in the works for their road map going forward. One of Sega Sammy's strongest means of annual…

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With the Super Mario Bros. movie getting, shall we say, a mixed reaction from the public (that set off a firestorm of Chris Pratt memes), Nintendo nonetheless has full confidence in its upcoming CGI film. The other voice roles include Keegan Michael Key as Toad, Charlie…

For the last 14 years, From Software has set a standard for intricate gameplay and a pace-altering difficulty with the Dark Souls series and Bloodborne, coining the term "Soulslike" among the community. Fans anticipating the first look at director Hidetaka Miyazaki's newest entry in the line of games, Elden Ring were finally given a gameplay…

This episode of ColonelFancy Reviews, it's a review of a different kind of space shooter from the UK, developed by Raffaele Cecco. This port for the NES is certainly a little...different. …

The high-paced combat of Capcom's Vs games has been cover here on the Retro Reboot with my review of Marvel vs Capcom: Clash Of Super Heroes. But before the Street Fighter characters developed a huge chip on their…

Any news updates throughout the last calendar year about Ubisoft's Prince of Persia Remake, without any better way to put it, got lost in the sands of time. Back in June, they announced the game would not be able to make the Ubisoft Forward presentation. In efforts to not become the development sludge that Beyond Good and Evil 2 has morphed into, the…

It's time to talk free games for up upcoming month, and while PlayStation's were leaked several days prior, they're now official. For the PlayStation 5 and PS4, it's Velan Studios' Knockout City, a multiplayer dodgeball battle royale published by Electronic Arts. Also for both platforms is the new survival game from Invisible Walls, First…

Google Stadia is still around, might be hard to tell, as the service fell out of the public eye rather quickly after its launch November 2019. According to 9to5Google, they're still looking for ways to coerce customers into trying out their service,…

Scottish developer Keelworks has announced they have entered a partnership with Konami and signed a deal to publish their vertical scrolling twin-stick shooter Cygni: All Guns Blazing, which is set to come to Steam and home consoles. Against overwhelming odds, the player only has their ship to take to war against a hostile alien armada. A genre as…

I've talked in the past about how horror games had their origins on PC, with a handful of offerings for home console, and it really was ushering a turning point for interactive media in the early 90's. As the technology for home computers were starting to improve with CD-ROM technology expanding data and storage, developers and game directors began…