It's hard to talk about Mighty No. 9 without also discussing the game's troubled release. Missed release dates, a change in art design, and a baffling second Kickstarter while the development team…
June 20, 2016 | 07:10 EDT
Three hours. The time it took from me entering the line for a chance to play the latest Legend of Zelda title, to entering Nintendo's booth to actually play it. After having players watch a small…
June 16, 2016 | 02:05 EDT
Nintendo has given a quick trailer showing off the stunning new Legend of Zelda game, titled Breath of the Wild, today at E3. Posted online, the three-minute trailer shows Link roaming a…
June 14, 2016 | 01:51 EDT
Nintendo has announced that a live Squid Sisters concert will be performed next month in Paris. In a recent twitter post (below) from Nintendo UK, the live performance is set for July 8th and…
June 3, 2016 | 09:30 EDT
Comcept, the developer of Keiji Inafune's Mighty No. 9, have announced via twitter that the final platform survey for the game will be sent out to all eligible Kickstarter backers this coming Monday…
May 14, 2016 | 10:06 EDT
Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition is now available for purchase on Xbox One. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzaM7aS1n54 Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition (developed…
April 30, 2016 | 10:16 EDT
This morning David D'Angelo, a developer at Yacht Club Games, announced via a Gamasutra blog post that their game Shovel Knight has just passed 1 million in digital sales. The physical release of …
April 14, 2016 | 09:47 EDT
Pokken Tournament is a creative new look at the classic Pokemon franchise, taking the RPG into the Fighting game genre. Prior to the game's release, the most interesting thing to think about the game…
April 6, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Spin-offs of Nintendo's long running Pokemon franchise tend to be a bit safe. Most of them (like Pokemon Conquest and Mystery Dungeon) are existing gameplay systems with Pokemon's cast of monsters…
March 15, 2016 | 10:00 EDT
In a continuing tale of woe that has surrounded Keiji Inafune's kickstarter project Mighty No. 9 it has been delayed yet again. Originally marketed with a plan of April 2015 release, and then delayed…
January 25, 2016 | 08:47 EST
2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise, and what better way to celebrate than reaching new genres? Pokken Tournament has already been wowing arcade-goers in Japan for months, and it…
January 15, 2016 | 01:02 EST
If you've owned the Nintendo Wii U this year, you've probably heard of a little game called Splatoon, a game that pits 2 teams against each other in a wild online painting contest whilst asking…
December 22, 2015 | 09:30 EST
The long awaited physical release of Shovel Knight is not going 100% as planned, as developers Yacht Club Games announced that their retail copies will be going for a higher price than originally…
October 8, 2015 | 11:43 EDT
After a number of delays and setbacks, Mighty No. 9 has unveiled its latest official release date. According to the official Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter update - Comcept in conjunction with their…
September 25, 2015 | 11:31 EDT
The Plague Knight DLC, Plague of Shadows, for Shovel Knight was announced a while ago, and now it is finally here. It prominently features one of the bosses from Shovel Knight, Plague Knight,…
September 18, 2015 | 03:18 EDT
Yesterday, Comcept announced a few updates for their upcoming Kickstarter game, Mighty No. 9, and one piece of news was not well received. The bulk of the announcement dealt with a robot design…
September 17, 2015 | 11:14 EDT
When Splatoon first released back in June, it received mostly favorable reviews, but it had a few problems. Mainly, there just wasn't enough content. After the recent update that came August 5, 2015…
September 2, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
The Shovel Knight amiibo is real. After a longstanding rumor of a Shovel Knight amiibo began circulating last week, which came to a head through a deleted post on twitter by U.K retailer GAME.…
August 30, 2015 | 12:58 EDT
Following the success of Yacht Club Games' NES style action platformer Shovel Knight, a free update dubbed 'Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows' has surfaced on the developers' website with a flashy…
August 26, 2015 | 12:05 EDT
Released early this morning via their YouTube Nintendo has announced that Pokken Tournament, the previous Japan only arcade title, will be getting its world wide release in the Spring of 2016 for…
August 21, 2015 | 11:06 EDT
Mighty No. 9's already troubled development just received an extra helping of uh-oh. Comcept's crowd-funded indie platformer was much anticipated upon its announcement. Considered a spiritual…
August 5, 2015 | 09:50 EDT
Nintendo has confirmed that an update is coming for the Wii U third-person shooter Splatoon. The new content will be free of charge and available for download on Thursday, August 6th. Here's what…
July 28, 2015 | 02:08 EDT
What can be said about Mass Effect? We are approaching nearly a decade since the first game was released on the Xbox 360, and in that time the Mass Effect series meteoric rise to dominance is…
July 23, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
It's hard to work up much excitement over the announcement of yet another online multiplayer-focused, team-based competitive shooter. These days it's the kind of thing that's best to willfully ignore…
June 10, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
After its release last week, Splatoon is already getting its first batch of free downloadable content today. Splatoon's official twitter has just announced that the newly released game from…
June 1, 2015 | 04:32 EDT
Splatoon is some of the most fun I've had with a game in years. Pure, joyous, unbridled fun. The vibrant colors, the in-your-face 90's charisma, the inventive take on the online console shooter;…
June 1, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
The Mighty No. 9 team announced today that they will be discontinuing the beta on May 20th. So if you're a backer, you have to act now to get in your last bit of game time before the beta goes away.…
May 19, 2015 | 04:54 EDT
For a while now, Mighty No. 9 was indicated to be released in April of 2015, but those who were watching the project didn't see that happening considering the lack of updates regarding the release.…
April 28, 2015 | 08:33 EDT
Trying to cash in on nostalgia is a trick that gamers are intimately familiar with at this point. Games throwing in pixel graphics and an 8-bit soundtrack with no regard to actual quality is a common…
April 11, 2015 | 09:18 EDT
If you've paid even the slightest attention to games in the past few years, you're now very aware of what a roguelike is. Even games that have little to anything to do with the traditions of the…
February 23, 2015 | 12:00 EST
I am one of the filthiest, dirtiest, crawling through mud console peasants you could ever hope to meet. My glands salivate at the merest thought of my current beau, the Wii U, because Nintendoes do…
February 19, 2015 | 10:00 EST
For a long while, it looked as though Platinum Games would never be able to make a follow-up to the universally acclaimed Bayonetta. However with the help of Nintendo, a sequel was made in the form…
January 3, 2015 | 04:38 EST
Hot off its win of Best Indie of the Year at The Game Awards last night, Yacht Club Games has announced today at the Playstation Experience that Shovel Knight will be coming to the Playstation 3,…
December 7, 2014 | 12:01 EST
A judge on The Game Awards panel tweeted last night about his happiness that Bayonetta 2 did not win Game of the Year, and that he would have had to quit had it won. Every judge has their personal…
December 6, 2014 | 10:48 EST
I grew up playing Super Smash Bros Melee, and in some ways, that game has remained with me up until now. I never played it to the competitive extremes that others may have, but I've always had a soft…
December 4, 2014 | 01:00 EST
In the recent preview posted earlier today, the team revealed that the Mighty No 9 beta will be coming to an end soon. Since the game was successfully funded on October 1st 2013, the backers have…
December 1, 2014 | 11:37 EST
In many ways, Ziggurat is very much a throwback to the first-person shooters of old. From the combat mechanics to the fantasy pulp-style plot that bookends the opening and ending cutscenes. The game…
November 30, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Throughout various gaming generations, there have only been a few titles worth buying an entire console for; the games that I would personally include on such a list I could probably count on my two…
November 3, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Endless-running games aren't really all that new when you look at the grand scheme of things. Games like Bit.Trip Runner have shown up all over the indie landscape, even in the flash game market.…
October 27, 2014 | 11:00 EDT
A game developer, after venting their frustration with Steam, made a death threat targeting managing director at Valve, Gabe Newell. Paranautical Activity, a horror themed FPS, has had a rocky…
October 21, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
Frima Studios describe Chariot as a "couch cooperative platformer. Recently released for Xbox One, PS4, Wii U as well as PC, it is a fun little platformer to kill a few minutes with. The design is…
October 15, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
As previously reported, the Club Nintendo Gold/Platinum Reward offerings ditched the pretense of physical goods entirely in favor of digital options. This means that they can’t run out of prizes at…
October 12, 2014 | 11:00 EDT
KickBeat has appeared on almost all consoles, and finally, this month, it arrived for the Playstation 4, the WiiU, and the Xbox One as KickBeat Special Edition. KickBeat is a music/fighting game…
October 10, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
It's weird sometimes, the type of parallels you might find within two seemingly opposing games, and I'm not just talking about the sheer insanity of this collaboration, either. Occasionally you'll…
October 3, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate is the latest release in Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors spinoff series. An updated version of the 2012 Warriors Orochi 3, it follows the same hack-and-slash…
September 30, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
Nintendo fans have turned to Twitter recently to rally support for the upcoming Wii U title, Bayonetta 2. Gamers anticipating the soon-to-be released game have adopted the hashtag OperationPlatinum.…
September 12, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
Earlier this week, we mentioned that Nintendo had planned a Nintendo Direct for the upcoming Bayonetta 2 for today, and indeed, it has come and gone! We've attached the recording of the Direct below…
September 4, 2014 | 10:28 EDT
Yesterday Nintendo announced the latest in their line of Nintendo Directs focused on upcoming Wii U titles; and Bayonetta 2 is the star of the show, this time! The direct is scheduled for 3PM PST (…
September 3, 2014 | 07:00 EDT