Opinion by Matt S. Nintendo has announced the launch date of its Wii U successor (and, we suspect, a home console that also has a portable element and is therefore successor to the 3DS). The NX will release in March 2017, as we were told at an investor’s briefing today.…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. It’s no shock to see a compilation of Sega games hit the shelves in 2016. As a prolific publisher responsible for hardware that collectively held thousands of games, it has every right to celebrate its history. And it has, many times over. The house of the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. So, here’s a riddle for you; what do you get when a bunch of critics expect a 3DS game to look, play, and behave like something that originally launched on the Wii U? I’ll save you the puzzle; you get a bunch of game critics that…
Read MoreOpinion by Sam M. I’ve never had a pet. Well, I have had the occasional fish but they float around without a care in the world. As a kid, there was never really a strong connection as I would have with a dog or a cat. Growing up, my pets…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’m so glad that Nintendo decided to remake The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and bring it to the Wii U. While it’s one of the more polarising entries in the series, I’ve always found it to be a fascinating, grand epic, of a game. And…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Although Mega Man is by far Capcom’s most prolific franchise, it’s been about half a decade since the company devoted any serious resources to it. Capcom hasn’t erased the blue bomber but rendered him the equivalent of a niche Mickey Mouse. He’s retained his iconic status…
Read MoreDespite the superb sales figures, the recent Fire Emblem game has been the subject of some incredibly fierce controversy. The reason for that controversy is that Nintendo, when localising the game, decided to engage in some self-censorship of the material, removing some parts of the game, and changing the dialogue,…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Since its inception in the early nineties, Fire Emblem has been forward-thinking with its humanisation of war. In a period when competing titles had players manipulate generic tanks and infantrymen for glory or without context, Intelligent Systems’ tactics series put a face to each of its…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. With its launch expected sometime next month, Nintendo’s first mobile game is slowly picking up steam. First came the announcement, of course. Now it is time for pre-registration, when users can create a My Nintendo account (and later be notified of the game’s launch). If you’re…
Read MoreNintendo needed a release in January. It’s the only way to explain Pokemon Rumble World existence as a retail release almost a year after it was dropped on the eShop as a free-to-play download title. Related reading: Of course, if you haven’t picked up Pokemon Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire…
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