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…

Seems like Bungie has been doing quite a bit on its player community with recent news regarding Destiny 2. Along with the announcement that the 30th Anniversary Pack will be priced at $30, on top of the standard edition (and the US$79 Deluxe version, much to the dismay of fans), it turns out the the dungeons for the upcoming Witch Queen add-on are NOT…

Announced at the Nintendo Direct back in June, Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot Camp reignites the turn-based combat series with Andy, Max, and Sami with this remastered collection from the Gameboy Advance days. It looks like fans will have to wait a little bit longer. Originally scheduled to be released December third of this calendar year, it now looks like…

The exclusivity rights EA has to Federation Internationle de Football Association will be coming to and end after an inability to agree to terms on an extension on their partnership. Originally signed the deal with Electronic Arts in 1993 (beginning to christen their sports subdivision "EA Sports"),  FIFA had been reportedly aiming to double its $150…

There isn't a game that comes off as blatant a ripoff as Carrier does with Resident Evil: Code Veronica. Both games had very close release dates, coming out very early 2000, so while Carrier more likely borrowed inspiration from Resident Evil 2, the similar offshore settings are a little too on the nose to not draw that comparison. Well, imitation is…

While the era of Batfleck came to a rather abrupt end, the anticipation of who shall don the cape and cowl, and the name of the director at the helm. 35 year old actor Robert Pattinson was designated to portray the role of the Dark Knight in the Matt Reeves directed incarnation of The Batman, a telling of the caped crusader's story in year two of his…

Metroid Dread's production was mostly handled by Spanish development team MercurySteam, who previously worked on the 3DS remake of Samus Returns in 2017, as well as Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. And staffers in a studio generally come and go during a development cycle, however, the story of crediting workers for their services have become a topic as…

The Right To Repair movement is a piece of legislature designated to provide consumers the right to modify the hardware they purchase at their own accord through more user-friendly regulations. This ranges as anything from jail-breaking electronics, modifying one's cellphone, and automobile repairs. More information about their goal can be found at…