screenshot: youtube Boku no Natsuyasumi is a long-running Japanese series that started with a strange and bad exception, was never officially released in the west. That’s a shame! However, where publishers have let us down, fans jump in and deliver the goods. The series, best translated as My summer vacationstarted in 2000 on the PS1, ...
Picture: Nintendo Steve out Minecraft was added Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in October 2020. In the years since, the mood around the character has changed got worse and worse due to allegations that the character is broken and overwhelmed. Now, a recent discovery of a competitive advantage has put those conversations back in the spotlight. ...
Picture: Nintendo “Fashion experiences itself as a right, the natural right of the present to the past,” said the critic Roland Barthes in his 1967 book The fashion system. Likewise, I’m saying that an outfit change can completely take over a video game, push yourself to the front of the crowd, and null all previous ...
Neo noir comedy Pokemon: Detective Pikachu came out in 2019, and it was surprisingly good. In the era of risk-averse studios rebooting and remaking everything under the sun, a sequel seemed inevitable. Sure enough, one was already in development when the first debuted. Since then no one has heard about it. Til today. meeting reports ...
screenshot: Sega | Browse your Steam library, flip through the spines of your PlayStation collection, or glance at the shelf of all your Xbox games and do the math for yourself: how many games are playing in the world you live in? I’m not talking about call of Duty, which sets dates and names in ...
screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku I put it hard in Octopath Traveler IIThe first hours. As someone who loves RPG parties the most when they feel like real units of friends and have found family, octopathI didn’t like ‘s anthology-style storytelling. Its eight playable characters felt more like islands to walk to and from than ...
screenshot: Square Enix / Luminous Productions Yesterday, Luminous Productions, the developers behind the rocking fantasy parkour game The prophesied, announced that it will no longer exist as a separate game studio. On May 1st, Luminous will be merged back into its parent company, Square Enix. Continue reading: The prophesied: The my city review Luminous Productions ...
Picture: By software FromSoftware just announced a major expansion for most people’s game of the year 2022, elden ring, is under development. It’s called shadow of the earth tree. But whatever. Do you see that person below in the new key graphic? If you’ve played, you probably have a good guess as to who it ...
photo: Rodin Eckerroth (Getty Images) A retranslated 1986 interview between Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Namco’s Masanobu Endo reveals some neat details about the games the two designers were playing at the time, what music Miyamoto liked, and his hopes for Mario’s future. A little background on these two before we get into the fun stuff. ...
Picture: Nintendo / Kotaku Nintendo is new Metroid Prime Remastered—physical copies of the Switch game released on February 22nd, if you could get your hands on one-has a lot of Things inside. As you guide the stalwart bounty hunter Samus Aran around the twisted planet of Tallon IV, you’ll collect some valuable upgrades and modifications ...
