Do you like the Sega Olympic games that come out every few odd years? No? Well too bad! Now there's four of them on the way for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 festivities. Announced by way of the official Olympic Games site, Sega is planning four ...

It was announced just last week that game designer Suda51 was to return to the Fire Pro Wrestling franchise, penning DLC content "The Vanishing" for its latest entry, the very fine Fire Pro Wrestling World.It seems that his return to the sq...

Of all of Mario's enemies, Kamek has gotta be one of the most irritating. The bespectacled wizard - also known as "Magikoopa" - made his debut in Super Mario World, hindering our plumber pal with projectile spells and the ability to make th...

This week's retro release from Hamster is one the flurry of baseball titles SNK released for the Neo Geo market, although this case is a slightly more irreverent one. Baseball Stars 2 is out now for PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Origina...

The xenomorphs and the Predator race have been at war for quite some time, now. Centuries, it seems. They've duked it out in comics, video games, cinema, action figures, and the imaginations of nerds everywhere. But man, all that fighting s...

Ooh, can you feel it in the air? The Boys of Summer are almost back. The dog days of spring (training) will soon turn into another Opening Day where every team is a contender. That, in turn, will give way to the dog days of summer when...

It might be pissing it down outside (at least it is here) but there's one place where the heat is always on, and that's in the world of Windjammers. DotEmu are prepping to start the summer earlier with a new trailer, which gives us our f...

Golf is a very deceptive sport. While many people will bemoan how "boring" it is, they're only looking at it from the viewpoint of a spectator. Actually picking up a club and swinging at a ball will show you just how much technique goes i...

Hot on the delicate heels of Pauline, Nintendo has announced two more characters who are set to join the ever-growing roster of Switch sports title Mario Tennis Aces, both of whom are standard baddies from the Super Mario Bros. series.First...

It's easy to forget that among the glut of one-on-one fighters and the occasional shmup, SNK also pumped out a ton of soccer titles for the arcade and Neo Geo format. One such release, The Ultimate 11: SNK Football Championship, is hitting ...

The baseball hot stove took a long time to warm up this winter, as two of the sport's free agents, Bryce Harper and Manny Machado, were unsigned through the start of spring training. It put Sony's MLB The Show '19 in an awkward positio...

The original Super Mario Bros. heroine, Pauline, is set to make her debut on the courts. A new trailer sees the classy lassy capitalise on her recent comeback by joining the roster of Nintendo Switch title Mario Tennis Aces.Having made her ...

Nintendo has released a trailer for the next competitor stepping up onto the courts in Switch sports title Mario Tennis Aces. And it's one of Bowser's most old-school of henchmen, Boom Boom.Originally making his debut in Super Mario Bros. 3...

Last year, the Netherlands declared that loot boxes in video games were a form of gambling. Any product containing them would be prohibited from sale without a proper license. Seemingly ready for a court battle, EA went about continuing to ...

Last night, pro-wrestling promotion WWE held their annual Royal Rumble event from Phoenix, AZ. It wasn't great. Fortunately, the show did had its highlights, including an ass-kicking fight between Asuka and Becky Lynch for the WWE SmackDown...

The NPD Group has shared its statistics for the whole of 2018 and some not-so-surprising outcomes have happened. Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 was the best selling game of 2018 followed by Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. NBA 2K and...

Earlier last year, I took a look at an indie titled called Boss Golf. Inspired by Sid Meier's Sim Golf, it was an attempt at recreating the charm of the late-'90s and early-'00s management sims that had become massively popular under the Si...

What's the best way to spice up the Wii Fit formula? Add anime characters. Fitness Boxing looks rad because it's basically everything all of the recent VR fitness games like Sound Boxing and Beat Saber offer, just with Joy-Co...

The skateboarding gaming scene has been stagnant for a long while. The Tony Hawk legacy effectively died in 2007 with Proving Ground, and any attempts to resurrect it outside of an HD remaster of bits of Tony Hawk 2 and 3 have been uns...

Rosalina is one of my favorite Mario series characters (I was thrilled to find out that she was an unlockable in Super Mario 3D World), but a lot of people don't like that she's been hogging the spotlight. Well, too bad, because now he...

Sony has announced the free titles available for PS Plus subscribers next month and there seems to be something odd going on. Each platform has one quality game mixed with an underwhelming one. On PS4, you'll get Ubisoft's open-world sports...

Konami has released a free version of PES 2019 today. Dubbed PES 2019 Lite, the game is a stripped down version of the main title that includes "myClub," a mode that is the equivalent of FIFA's "Ultimate Team" mode. As for the modes that ha...

Shovel Knight turned five this year, and it shows no signs of slowing down. He's sold over three million copies and counting. There are not one, not two, but six different books that tell his story in one way or another. His ...

[Update: Worth bumping as Koei Tecmo has just released the most metal horse racing trailer of all-time, which you can now see below.]Last week we reported on a brand new game being teased by publisher Koei Tecmo. Said game has now been reve...

Hamster are taking to the football pitch once again for this week's release from their Neo Geo Archives. Neo Geo Cup 98: The Road to Victory has been made available on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Originally releasing in 1998 (obviousl...