Review by Matt S. By the numbers, the Collection of Mana that Square Enix dropped on our Nintendo Switches as part of the E3 festivities last week is one of the most limited “retro packs” of all. Street Fighter had a dozen or so games, the SNK collection even more,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Why this wasn’t part of the Square Enix E3 conference is beyond me, but it was announced today anyway, via Famitsu in Japan. Square Enix subsidiary, Taito, will be releasing a Space Invaders: Invincible Collection on Nintendo Switch. The collection will contain at least six titles…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. A couple of weeks ago one of the ongoing series of Arcade Archives titles landed on Nintendo Switch. There’s so many of these that land these days that it’s hardly worth writing about, especially when we also get so many compilations of classic games now. Releasing…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The first Konami Anniversary collection was a bit of a bust, offering a collection of classic games which were a little too obscure and one-note for their own good. Konami and development partner M2 have come good this time around, though. Castlevania Anniversary Collection is a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I bought Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection – a compilation of some of Konami’s classic arcade releases (circa 1981 though 1988) for one game alone: Haunted Castle. The arcade take on Castlevania is brutal, brilliant, and an absolute masterpiece of classic arcade platforming action. Sadly, as good…
Read MoreIt’s been such a big couple of weeks for Final Fantasy, with IX, VII, X and X-2 releasing on the Nintendo Switch within weeks of one another… and FFXII just around the corner. So this week on the podcast we talk about those games. Additionally, we chat about remakes –…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. You’d never know this today, but I used to be a big fan of the FPS. Back when the genre represented the finest transgressive energy in the games industry, and when the limited hardware on offer meant that developers aimed for the fantastic and abstract, rather…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The Australian Classification Board provides us with some of the most ridiculous examples of censorship we see in the games industry. On the more positive side it also sometimes accidentally announces games for it. Such is the case with Castlevania Anniversary Collection, a title that hasn’t…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Despite the ongoing campaign of certain pundits that insist Konami is a dying brand, the company’s actually doing plenty well for itself, and is indeed one of the oldest Japanese companies in the business. It actually turns 50 this year, and it’s looking like the company’s…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. In the long run, Nintendo’s decision to bottleneck the Switch’s Virtual Console to three or four NES games per month did have its benefits. While the Wii and 3DS leveraged third-party Virtual Console titles to bridge gaps between first party releases, the Nintendo Switch has the…
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