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The Best NES Game Turns 30 Years Old Today
31.1.2022
January 31, 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of a fantastic Sunsoft platformer known as Gimmick, released for the Famicom all the way back in 1992. Excuse me while I spend a few paragraphs gushing about it.Read more
The Best Uncharted, Out Now For PS5, Doesn't Star Nathan Drake
28.1.2022
The best Uncharted game doesn’t open in media res with hero Nathan Drake hanging, gutshot, off a derailed train in the Himalayas. It doesn’t start with him tearing through 12-foot Pacific swells in a speedboat on a stormy night. No, it kicks off with a focus on his sporadic companion Chloe Frazer...
No Man's Sky Dev Brings Back Older Games To Brighten One Kid's Life
27.1.2022
Before Hello Games made a name for itself with the procedurally generated space adventure No Man’s Sky, its developer was all about Joe Danger, a cartoonish motorcycle stuntman racing through an eponymous series of console and mobile games. After years of being defunct due to iOS updates, the...
Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Doesn’t Need To Exist, But It’s Still Great
26.1.2022
My entire time with Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves has been underscored by a question: Why?Read more
Castlevania-Inspired Roguelike Is Pure Dopamine
21.1.2022
Over the last few days, I’ve been consumed by a game called Vampire Survivors. It’s cheap, both in terms of price (only $3) and presentation (giant buttons that look more suited to mobile than PC), while very obviously lifting most of its aesthetic inspiration from the Castlevania series. But...
Sonic 4: Episode II Speedrun Record Broken By Player In Cursed Sonic Outfit
12.1.2022
The speedrun world record for co-op Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II has been broken during this year’s Awesome Games Done Quick, which is made all the more impressive when you learn one of the players was wearing an ill-fitting bootleg Sonic outfit, complete with oversized floppy gloves.Read more
Everything Shown At Today's Nintendo Indie Direct
15.12.2021
Nintendo aired a 20-minute Direct showcase today, focusing on third-party games from independent developers. Those holding their breath for news of Hollow Knight: Silksong will, sadly, have to continue holding their breath. Still, Nintendo packed a whole lot of announcements in not a whole lot...
Netflix's Next Live-Action Victim Is Mega Man
13.12.2021
It looks like Netflix, flush off their success adapting Cowboy Bebop, have cast their eyes towards another beloved Japanese character: Mega Man. Read more
Sega Reveals Sonic Frontiers, The First Open-World Sonic Game
10.12.2021
We’ve seen Sonic the Hedgehog games with free-roaming hub areas, but a fully open-world Sonic? That’s an entirely new animal. Ready or not, here comes Sonic Frontiers, which Sega is calling Sonic’s first “open-zone-inspired gaming experience.” Check out the first trailer, as well as a...
Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Comes With A Free Ticket For The Tom Holland Movie
7.12.2021
The leap from one console generation to the next continues to be a puzzle worthy of Uncharted: not terribly mind-bending, but certainly more complicated than you’d expect. The latest example, in an Escherian twist, is Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves, the forthcoming PlayStation 5 bundle that includes...
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Gets Final Buffs And Nerfs In Update
2.12.2021
While this isn’t the last Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the game’s official Twitter points out that Ver. 13.0.1 will be the final game balance update. Read more
Live Footage Of Sonic The Hedgehog's Infamous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Disaster
26.11.2021
Anyone who’s a serious fan of Sonic, or of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, is probably aware of the 1993 event in which a Sonic the Hedgehog float became caught in high winds, struck a lamppost and injured two people. The thing is, despite knowing this happened, we didn’t have any surviving video...
Hideki Kamiya Hosts 'Very Sorry Stream' With Uncomfortable Letter From Alleged Fan
3.11.2021
Yesterday, developer Hideki Kamiya hosted an “apology stream” announcing, and subsequently apologizing for, a delay on the company’s upcoming shoot-em-up, Sol Cresta. The stream was, all things considered, kind of a weird vibe.Read more
Leak: Batman, Steven Universe Come Together In Smash Bros.-Style Fighting Game
27.10.2021
Following recent reports that Warner Bros. was working on a platform fighting game similar to Super Smash Bros. called Multiversus, a possible roster for the project featuring characters from Batman, Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and more appears to have leaked online.Read more
7 Uncharted Game References You May Have Missed In The Movie Trailer
21.10.2021
This morning, Sony released the first official trailer for the Uncharted movie, starring Tom Holland as the terminally henley-wearing rogue Nathan Drake. Movies based on video games don’t have the best track record, of course, but it nonetheless looks pretty fun..Read more
Spelunky World Record Holder Busted As A Cheater
14.10.2021
A player by the name of BarryMode has, for the last eight years, held the world record for a run through Spelunky. Not anymore, though, after fans discovered that he’d cheated, with the evidence clearly visible in the video he’d recorded of the run.Read more
Intellivision Is Selling NFT Games For A Console That Ain't Even Out Yet
10.10.2021
The Intellivision Amico is a retro-inspired android-based console that was supposed to be out October 20, 2020 but has suffered numerous delays since then. And now, even before the console has shipped to backers or customers, the company is selling “physical” games for it in limited-time bundles...
Nintendo Won't Put Waluigi In Smash, But This AI Was Happy To
7.10.2021
Earlier this week, Nintendo revealed that Kingdom Hearts protagonist Sora, not Waluigi, will be the final character to join the expansive Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster. As someone who unironically loves the lanky, purple doofus, I was devastated by Sakurai’s indifference. So devastated,...
Sega Drops Series Monkey Ball Announcer, Who Claims Discrimination
29.9.2021
Brian Matt, the original announcer for the Super Monkey Ball series, will apparently not be heard in Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania, despite the new release being effectively a remake of the first two games. Today, Sega claimed that Matt was never even involved in the development of the latest...
Even Sonic Dad Yuji Naka Is Shocked At Game’s $430,000 Auction Price
22.9.2021
The rivalry between Mario and Sonic goes back for decades, but even one of Sonic’s creators was stunned to see the blue hedgehog apparently giving chase to Mario in a whole new realm: that of outrageously priced video game auctions.Read more