The lukewarm reception that Eternal Darkness’ “spiritual successor” Shadow of the Eternals has gotten so far apparently hasn’t stopped Nintendo from showing some interest in the classic horror franchise as well: the company recently filed for a new trademark related to the eleven year old psychological …
Similar to what happened to THQ earlier this year, the assets of the bankrupt Atari corporation are being split apart and auctioned off to the highest bidders. According to legal documents posted to Scribd, World of Tanks publisher Wargaming and PC strategy game developer Stardock are …
Earthbound, one of the greatest console RPGs ever made, has finally been re-released on the Wii U Virtual Console. If you own a Wii U, you should definitely pick the game up (god knows you don’t have anything else to play on it this month,) and …
Retro Round Up is a… uh, semi-regular feature (I’m bad at sticking to a schedule,) that takes a look at what’s new in the world of old games. This week: I lament over the wasted awesome-ness of the 3DS Virtual Console’s Game Gear emulator, and talk …
Capcom has announced that their upcoming DuckTales remake will be released for the PC, PS3, and Wii U on August 13th. The Xbox 360 version will be available a few weeks later, on September 11th (please refrain from making any jokes about Launchpad McQuack crashing a …
Last year, an incomplete version of the cancelled Game Boy Color port of the original Resident Evil was released online, and RE fans were surprised to discover that Nintendo’s tiny 8-bit handheld was capable of playing an (admittedly loose) adaptation of Capcom’s revolutionary survival horror classic. …
I’ve been subscribing to Playstation Plus for the last few years, and I’ve been pretty happy with the service so far — the amount of free games and discounts I’ve received has greatly outweighed the cost of a subscription. The American version of the service is …
In the almost twenty years since it was originally released, Shaq Fu — the fantasy themed fighting game that stars real-life basketball superstar Shaquille O’Neal — has become the poster child for ill-thought out, poorly developed licensed games. Nowadays the only time you hear about Shaq …
A few weeks ago, Namco producer Hideo Baba announced the Tales of Symphonia HD Collection for PS3. Then he un-announced it, saying that his original announcement was a mistranslation. Apparently Baba was lying that second time, because Namco Bandai just officially announced Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, …
Fans were generally disappointed with Square Enix’s lazy Final Fantasy 7 PC port from last year, but apparently it sold decently, so Square is going to do the same thing all over again with Final Fantasy 8.
