“Catch a Mew, plant a tree”. When Pokémon GO was at its peak, it encouraged millions across the world to get outside and go for a walk. While it made a few headlines for the wrong reasons, it actually got people exploring the places that they live, and even places they’ve never been to before, […]
High Contrast, Read Chat Out Loud and more. Quake led to a significant amount of buzz when it dropped on Switch and other systems, and was certainly a retro highlight of 2021. It wasn’t just the classic game thrown onto modern hardware, but rather it has various improvements and entirely new content to dive into; […]
Radical, dude. Furbies. AOL. Wearing caps backwards. VHS tapes. Cups with those teal and pink squiggles on them. These are the ’90s staples upon which The Big Con is based, as a loving parody of the decade that introduced us to questionable fashion decisions and incredible music. You play as Ali, a high schooler who […]
Black and white brilliance. It’s the Game Boy’s 33rd birthday, so what better time to reacquaint yourself with its very best games? Enjoy! Friday 21st April 1989 — the day that the Game Boy launched in Japan. 33 years ago the video gaming landscape would be forever changed as Nintendo opened up the new frontier […]
Frame hate. This is the sad Haiku of Ganryu 2,A tragedy coded in Unity,By the Storybird crew. Visco, a long defunct Neo Geo developer, is having its IPs plundered of late, like a bounty sadly washed ashore. Following on from Picorinne Soft’s Andro Dunos sequel, Ganryu – a distinctly average 1999 arcade game – has […]
NFL football is going virtual in the first officially licensed football game by the league set to be released this Fall. The NFL, along with StatusPRO Inc. and the NFL players association, brings us NFL Pro Era, the first virtual game that puts you in the shoes (and helmet) of NFL quarterbacks like Lamar Jackson. […]
Celebrating its 15 year anniversary. Daedalic Entertainment is now 15 years old and has launched a major eShop sale to celebrate. The publisher has been a big supporter of the Switch eShop, so there are some intriguing titles with reductions of between 30-90%. You can see some in the trailer above, while below are the […]
Magic: The Gathering. Have you seen those whackadoo adverts for mobile games where the sedate match-3 mechanics are apparently just the coat of paint on a story about your man-murdering grandma? Well, it looks like Wylde Flowers took the idea of “cute game + grandma with dark secrets” and ran with it, as you can […]
There’s a free demo, too. Marvelous and XSEED Games sure have given us a bit of a shock today! First Studios, the developers of the action-packed mech combat game Daemon X Machina is following its debut title up with a survival action game called Deadcraft. And it’s coming to all platforms pretty soon, on 19th […]
Don’t worry, ‘Meta’ isn’t in there. Konami – or to use its current full name, Konami Holdings Corporation – is looking to change its name to coincide with the company’s 50th anniversary. So long as shareholder’s approve of the move, Konami’s board of directors has agreed to change the company’s name to Konami Group Corporation. […]