He just wanted to vacuum up some ghosts, that's all. When Mario's plucky brother Luigi entered that dank gothic mansion yesterday, during Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Direct, he was armed with his funny ghost-bustin' device and an amusing s...

[Update: Reggie Fils-Aime spoke with IGN about Fortnite's successful launch on Switch (2 million downloads thus far) and made a quick comment about the issues occurring with PS4 accounts on the platform. As stated by him: "We embrace workin...

This is a duo blog, compiled by the hard working pari of Perro and TheLimoMaker.  So that was the EA press conference this year... It was worse than any of could have predicted. No fresh new AAA IP's on display, no mining of old c...

If you're a child of the '90s, chances are you've played RuneScape at one point or another. What is possibly the first MMO for multiple generations of gamers, RuneScape has been trucking along since its launch in 2001. Despite a couple of s...

Did you know that it's possible to run automatically? If you're blown away by this revelation, don't worry, I was too. This is a mechanic that the...

Reports are coming out on Twitter that Wargaming Seattle (formerly Gas Powered Games) has been shut down. A branch of Wargaming, which is famous for World of Tanks, the studio was founded in 1998 by Chris Taylor (Dungeon Siege) and members ...

For quite some time, retail giant Best Buy has offered a yearly program called "Gamers Club Unlocked" to its customers. While there were a lot of good features about the program, the biggest incentive to sign-up was the 20% discount on new ...

Daybreak Studios, developer behind the previously popular H1Z1, has confirmed that an undisclosed amount of staff have been let go from the company. The dev told PC Gamer in an e-mail, "We are realigning our workforce to better position our...

We've all seen the Angry Video Game Nerd episode where he compares the SNES with the Sega Genesis and mocks the "blast processing" thrust of the Genesis' marketing campaign. It seems silly now to think that slapping a vague buzzword on tech...

It seems Demon's Souls isn't the only cult classic RPG that is having its online option turned off in 2018. Capcom has announced that the Xbox 360 versions of Dragon's Dogma and Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will have its online component shu...

In support of World Mental Health Day back in October, game developer Will O'Neill ran an offer on itch.io for a bundle of two of his visual novel/adventure games, Actual Sunlight and Little Red Lie. Both games take a bold look at ment...

While Psychonauts 2 didn't have a firm release date, it now won't be making the originally planned 2018 window. Confirmed on an update over on Fig, Double Fine has stated that, "we know a lot more about the size and scope of the game we are...

For one reason or another, China has banned access to the Steam community forums for all Chinese users. Users in that region can still purchase titles from the Steam storefront, but they won't be able to engage in discussion or utilize any ...

If you've been looking for the Super Mario Cereal either as a goof or for its amiibo functionality, then you're going to really dislike this news. Not even a week after release, Target stores in the US have discontinued the product and will...

Credit cards are both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, they allow you to pay for large expenses that you may not have the current cash to handle, paying things off over time. On the other hand, they allow you to pay for large expenses t...

A few days ago, we reported on dataminers discovering the NES game Golf hidden within the Switch's firmware. A lot of people were speculating if this was a bug, a placeholder for the eventual launch of Nintendo's Virtual Console service, or...

PC fans of the excellent (and overlooked) Ys series will be sad to hear that the newest installment, Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, has received a last minute delay on their platform of choice. Taking to the Steam forums, NIS America has annou...

Emily is Away was a very realistic look at how relationships can escape one's grasp. The take away was that it is better to speak your mind then to forever bottle your emotions up. The worst thing that can happen is you get rejected; life d...

There are plenty of people who have helped create something far bigger than themselves and never received proper credit. Most of us associate Nintendo of America with Reggie Fils-Aimé, but there was an even bigger man behind Nintendo...

Earlier this week, we reported on a missing shipment of 100 classic Super Nintendo (SNES) games that went missing on their way to an archivist in New Jersey. There's been some movement in the case since then, but unfortunately, the news isn...

Amateur game historian Byuu has suffered a huge setback in his efforts to digitally preserve the entire Super Nintendo (SNES) library after a package containing 100 cartridges was lost in transit. The box contained somewhere between $7500 a...

I could never imagine living with a fatal disease. I've seen it take the life of my aunt and have watched others slowly succumb to some miserable affliction, but I don't know how I would react in a similar situation. Would I cling to the th...

Metroid Prime: Blast Ball, otherwise known as the only part of Federation Force worth a damn, had a demo that included online support. It was basically the entirety of that extra mode which had amiibo support along with allowing you to tran...

The first Global Mission for Pokémon Sun and Moon ended last night, and unfortunately, the global Pokémon community didn't manage to meet the target. Players were challenged to catch 100 million Pokémon during...

I'm sorry to have to crush all our hopes and dreams, but it looks like Danny DeVito most likely won't be voicing Detective Pikachu if the game is ever localized in English. At an event in LA yesterday, DeVito was asked if he was aware ...

In late 2015, ESPN killed Grantland. The ostensible sports site hosted some of the best writing online, period, expanding its rumination beyond sports to TV, movies, and pop culture at large. It was something to aspire to, the correct direc...