Nintendo's 2020 Indie World Showcase wrapped up, bringing a plethora of independently developed titles to the Switch. Headlining them is Innersloth's multiplayer deduction communication title Among Us.…

It's time for Retro Reboot to dive once again into the world of 8-bit superhero action. After dabbling in the action platformer madness that is the very snug, but very difficult Batman and the Uncanny X-men, the video game equivalent of trying to eat dry ice, time to take a look at the only game starring the Silver Surfer...uhh...Silver Surfer. This…

The Nintendo Switch Online Service drops five games for this holiday season, headlined by Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. This includes a Christmas code that turns the bonus levels holiday themed. Filling out the rest of the SNES line is The Ignition Factor, Super Valis IV, and Tuff E Nuff. The…

The developers of Windjammers 2, Dotemu, has announced that due to some development setbacks, the sequel will be delayed. An official statement was posted to the team's Twitter page:

“We analyzed in depth all these mixed opinions regarding some stuff including the lack of rollback for the online mode, which was unanimously praised in…

As of this writing, it seems like the DuckTales 2017 reboot will not be renewed for a fourth season. That's pretty disheartening. Perhaps storylines will be resolved in what remains of season three, which I'll feel a little better about. Most of what DuckTales does is practically brilliant, and the same can be said about the platformer from Capcom.…

In less than two weeks, Nintendo has come at odds with its fanbase again. As previously covered, in late November, Nintendo issued a cease and desist against the Super Smash Brothers Melee tournament organizing group, The Big House, who were attempting to use emulated copies of the 2001 Gamecube game and a…

The SNK fanbase has spent the last two years anticipating any details about the fifteenth entry in the King of Fighters series. Rumors and speculation circulated as the SNK brand has remained silent on its development, keeping focus on the release and roadmap of 2019's Samurai Shodown, which has seen steady success. Since the previous generation…

The PlayStation 5 is certainly a hot commodity. Rap star Travis Scott has also been blazing a trail in 2020 as a marketing hot ticket and becoming a brand in and of himself. The 28 year old entrepreneur, a fan of Sony, had signed a deal to serve as a strategic partner for the PS5.

“I’m really looking forward to being able to showcase…

By 1999, the brawler genre was becoming increasingly more passe as game development for home consoles became more robust and substantial. Sega was a company that wasn't going to let go of those arcade button-mashing heydays, and the Dreamcast was the last bastion of coin-op style gameplay. Due to the popularity of the Resident Evil series, Sega were…

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…