Grand Theft Auto is one of the seminal franchises for open-world video games and the most successful entertainment product ever released. So it should be no surprise that Grand Theft Auto V immediately became a cultural phenomenon, managing nearly $1 billion dollars in revenue on its first day alone. To date, it has sold an … Read more
Nintendo surprised fans on Wednesday with news that they are remaking The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for the Switch. Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening was originally released on the Game Boy handheld in 1993. Last year marked its 25th anniversary. The remake is planned for a release in 2019. We have the trailer from … Read more
Nintendo revealed that Super Mario Maker is coming to the Nintendo Switch in June during today’s Nintendo Direct. Super Mario Maker came out on the Wii U in 2015 and the Nintendo 3DS in 2016. Fans have wanted the Wii U version ported to the Switch, but Nintendo is releasing a sequel instead with new tools to … Read more
Psyonix announced today that Rocket League will have an update released on February 19 that adds the ability to have cross-play friends lists. Cross-platform play between PC, Switch, and Xbox One has been a feature since April 2018. Cross-play support was added for PS4 last month, but the support only extended to matchmaking. Now, you … Read more
Nintendo announced today that the company is dropping a new Nintendo Direct tomorrow. Nintendo says that the video presentation, which will feature Switch games, will be around 35 minutes long. It will broadcast at 5:00 PM Eastern Time. This will be the first Nintendo Direct of 2019. We don’t know what all will be featured … Read more
EA announced today that the just-released Apex Legends has already topped 25 million players. The free-to-play shooter from Respawn is barely a week old and already outpacing Fortnite, which took 40 days to reach 20 million players. This is leading analysts like Baird’s Colin Sebastian to raise their price target of EA, which has been … Read more
Armature Studios was more than willing to admit that it wanted to go with the Metroidvania theme when developing Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, the handheld tie-in to the console game Batman: Arkham Origins. Unfortunately, it might have been better off thinking about ways to make the Batman: Arkham series’ hand-to-hand combat system and gadget-based exploration … Read more
You wake up lying on the ground. You don’t know where you are. You don’t know who you are. You stand up and look around. A weird-looking black cat is sitting near your feet meowing. You tell it to go beg from someone else. Right away you can tell that you are in some sort … Read more
On the surface, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc seems like a weird mash-up of Ace Attorney and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward. Even with the extremely long and odd title, Trigger Happy Havoc should absolutely not be ignored. Indeed, the Vita has received another great title from developer Chunsoft. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc poses ethical questions … Read more
After twelve years in business, the Wii Shop Channel closed its digital doors for good today. Last year, Nintendo stopped allowing users to purchase Wii Points for digital products. Yesterday was the last day to redeem any remaining Wii Points toward purchases. While users can still re-download WiiWare and Virtual Console titles, as well as … Read more
Few game developers pull off good satire. Sure, there are plenty of examples of tongue-in-cheek humor in video games but not very many dedicate their product to ridiculing an entire cultural era, either intentionally or unintentionally. This is exactly what Ubisoft has done with their ’80s action movie knock-off in the form of Far Cry … Read more
Zombie-themed games have become so frequent that they are almost passé. Deep Silver’s Dead Island: Riptide is just the latest in a string of flesh-eating undead titles in the past few years. Thankfully, its open-world multi-player take is still fairly fresh. Riptide is a sequel to 2011’s Dead Island, an action-RPG survival-horror game that took … Read more
Nier: Automata is technically a sequel, although only in the loosest sense of the word. The lack of connection to its predecessor was actually not even one of its most unusual qualities. And, for the record, I mean all of the following things with love – but, damn, Nier: Automata really went out of its … Read more
Wind instruments play softly as the camera pans over a wind-swept sand dune before peering into the distant sun. String instruments crescendo as a sand storm covers what appear to be long-forgotten tombstones. The environment is harsh and remote with no signs of life. Suddenly a shooting star sweeps across the sky. A robed figure … Read more
Doom (2016) is the first full-fledged Doom game since Doom 3 came out on PC and Xbox way back in 2004. That’s a twelve-year gap with only an expansion pack, a visually-upgraded re-release of Doom 3, and a mobile game. And as it turns out, Doom (2016) – hereafter referred to as “Doom” – is … Read more
