Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog On: 26 Sep
Latchkey Games is a (sometimes) weekly article that takes a look at games that perhaps didn’t quite get the amount of love they deserved: whether it was a game that was panned on it’s initial release only to become a cult classic, one that stirred the ire of series fans, or simply a game that [...]
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On: 25 Sep
I know more than a few people who stopped buying DS games once they got their hands on a flashcart filled with ROMs, but it seems like piracy on the 3DS is about to get a whole lot harder — the makers of several flashcarts, including the popular SuperCard, have stated that the latest 3DS [...]
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 On:
Platinum Games is a busy company nowadays: the team behind modern action classics like Bayonetta and Vanquish now has their hands full with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for PS3 and 360 and their duo of Wii U exclusives, The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2. Despite their success on consoles, Platinum is looking into developing games [...]
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Wii On:
Today Nintendo confirmed that the Wii U will be region locked. The news really isn’t surprising given that every Nintendo console since the NES has employed region locks of some sort, but it’s still disappointing news to hear for the legions of import gamers out there.
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: PC, Playstation 3, Reviews, Xbox 360 On: 24 Sep
Minimum system requirements: An Xbox 360, PC, or a PS3, an internet connection to buy and download the game, and a tempered pair of nostalgia goggles.
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On: 20 Sep
Fans have been clamoring for a true Kingdom Hearts sequel on an HD console for years, but it seems like long suffering KH fans will still have to wait a bit longer to see the next “real” installment of Sora and co.’s story: Square-Enix announced today that Kingdom Hearts would indeed be headed to the [...]
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On:
With the next generation of consoles poised to come out within a year or two, a lot of people were expecting prices on current gen hardware to drop. That hasn’t happened yet, and despite Sony announcing a new PS3 redesign a few days ago, Sony says they have no plans to drop the price of [...]
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 On: 19 Sep
Keiji Inafune (best known for his work on Mega Man, Onimusha, Lost Planet, Dead Rising,) announced his zombie-ninja action game “Yaiba” a few days prior to Tokyo Game Show, but he waited until today to announce that Yaiba is set within the Ninja Gaiden universe.
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Handheld, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita On:
In addition to the redesigned PS3, Sony had a fair bit of Vita news to share: following handheld tradition, the Vita will be getting two new hardware colors this Fall (in Japan, at least) Red and Blue. More exciting than that though was the announcement that the Playstation Plus premium service would finally be extending [...]
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Playstation 3 On:
Sony kicked off the Tokyo Game Show this year by announcing that the 6 year old PS3 will once again be redesigned to be smaller and sleeker: the new PS3 model sort of looks like the original glossy design that the platform launched with, but is about 50% smaller than the original “Fat” models and [...]
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 17 Sep
Today EA and Bioware finally officially announced that Dragon Age 3: Inquisition is in development. The game was unintentionally unveiled earlier this year when a marketing survey accidentally divulged the first details about the game, and as such, today’s official unveiling didn’t reveal much about the game that we didn’t already know.
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Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News On: 16 Sep
We’re just two months away from the launch of the Wii U, and the internet is abuzz with hype (or anger) about the launch line-up for Nintendo’s next system. As cool as new hardware is to play with, consoles succeed or die by the strength of their software library, and every console ever released has [...]
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