Nintendo are to release a New Nintendo 3DS XL console, visually designed to reflect the look of the U.S Super Nintendo. The console is expected to launch on November 27.As a bonus gift, the handheld will come with a digital copy of 1992 cla...

Tomorrow at 8:00 pm PT / 11:00 pm ET, Nintendo Direct will be showcasing its first glimpse of Animal Crossing for mobile, during a roughly 15 minute video presentation they have planned. Previously announced in April of last year, alongside...

After three weeks at number one, FIFA 18 has been usurped to second place, by Sony's ever-popular Gran Turismo series, as Gran Turismo: Sport debuts straight into the top spot of the UK charts.Also breaking into the top five were two other ...

Late last month, I reviewed Tokyo Dark, an independent supernatural investigation point-and-click. People sacrificed themselves for religious cults, I had a great time. In early October, I spent most of my free time playing and speculating ...

Just this morning Shin Megami Tensei V has been officially announced, via a live stream broadcast on the official YouTube channel of series publishers, Atlus. Outside of some pretty dark themes, showcased in the teaser trailer, the only rea...

My first real web project (that wasn't a DBZ fansite I coded with rudimentary HTML) was a Mega Man hub I started with a good friend of mine as kids. I provided most of the content (guides, news) with some coding support and he did the ...

[UPDATE: January 26 has now also been confirmed as the release date for Europe.]Bandai Namco revealed that upcoming anime fighter Dragon Ball FighterZ will be receiving roster additions beyond its initial release date, which has been announ...

A woman, clad in a baseball jacket and a creepy mask (or is it?), kicks down the door of a crime-lord's penthouse office. Righteous light blazes, gunshots ring out, flames ignite, bodies fly across the room with reckless abandon and then, i...

While EA basically treated the Switch like chopped liver since it was announced, merely porting a cut-up version of FIFA 18, now comes the point where they play coy in an attempt to slowly get on the bandwagon. Speaking to GameSpot, produce...

Here's a big one for you guys. No, not that. Heathens. It is arousing to be back though. I meant this contest however. The awesome folks at ConsoleTuner.com are at it again: letting you pick your choice of controller (xb360, xb1, PS3 or PS4...

It's always great to see a Kickstarter project come out of (relatively) nowhere and become a success. While people tend to remember the failures more, A Hat in Time is one of the few games to reach the other end of a Kickstarter campaign an...

The other day I spent a couple of hours at work reading about sailboats. Like a ten-year-old with a new fascination after discovering Treasure Island or some other seafaring fantasy, I was obsessing over famous ships from the past, and the ...

Another Sunday, another batch of Best Buy weekly sales. But wait, what's this? Best Buy is spraying PS4 and Xbox One gamers with a $10 discount on Destiny 2 (that's 17% off). For gamers with Best Buy Gamers Club Unlock (aka GCU), ...

X-Men has been one of Marvel's biggest properties for a long time, and not just in comic books. Before the days of the MCU, Marvel actually seemed to enjoy putting X-Men on a pedestal. The mutant team had a character almost everyone could r...

Last week I woke up at the crack of dawn to grab an extra Super Nintendo Classic to give away on Destructoid and, sure enough, I was met with a line of people at every location I went to -- and few shy about their intent to list it on eBay ...

A lot of people have come to associate the term “free to play” with skeevy micro transaction driven game mechanics designed to influence people’s feeling states, leading them to make unwise decisions with their money. T...

My best friend was a funeral director for about seven years. Fun guy, super positive, real people person. Not at all the kind of pale, spooky, ghoul you might picture when I say “funeral director.” Nobody tell him, but he might ...

Halloween is right around the corner and with it comes a bevy of scary releases in theaters and on game consoles around the world, so what better time than now to talk about how much we love scary games. I love a good jump scare or an even ...

I know Funko Pop! toys get a bad rap, but I never quite saw what the problem was. Eye read folks' bad views of them on Twitter and the like, but I just don't perceive any issues. Sonic the Hedgehog had a series released before, but those we...

Earlier this week, EA announced that Visceral Games, the studio responsible for a new Star Wars game under Amy Hennig, was being shut down with immediate effect. This led to a lot of speculation as to whether this was the end for the fully ...

At the Arc Revolution Cup in Toushinsai 2017, tournament champion (and Shadow Ken player) Reni asked series director Kazuhisa Wada whether or not another Persona fighting game would happen because a new entry would "make [him] really happy....

[We're a week off from Spooksday; I'm working some sort of fancy-ass Halloween party, but otherwise, the Overwatch Halloween event and I have plans. What's your favorite Halloween event this year? Do you have any plans? The Master List will...

[Update: NeoGAF avatars are free on PSN. Get them while you still can.] One of the things that made NeoGAF stand out from the crowd was its strict membership policy. Unlike more accessible communities like Destructoid, you couldn't jus...

I'm sure this sounds like a broken record at this point, but Dragon Ball FighterZ just keeps looking better and better. I'm hooked on Captain Ginyu and Nappa through images alone. Bandai Namco uploaded a few screenshots to their Facebook pa...

I've always loved watching Tetris matches because Tetris is one of the only games I can arguably defend as perfect. So, when you have an arguably perfect game, it's always amazing to see the best players in the world put their skills to ...