Ace Attorney is a lot more than a video game at this point. It is among the most memed and referenced games ever made. This trilogy pack takes the first three games in the series, originally released on GBA in Japan and then DS elsewhere, and remasters them in HD for modern consoles and PC. […]
Is Pikmin Bloom Any Good?
On October 26th Nintendo announced that the Pikmin mobile game is called Pikmin Bloom. They said it would release immediately but it didn’t come out in the United States until the next day. I’ve been playing it since then on iOS and I have a few thoughts. A New Take On Pokemon GO All of […]
Is the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Overpriced?
On Friday, October 15th, 2021, Nintendo ended their Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct with the unthinkable: a $49.99 price tag for the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack 12 month individual membership. They also announced an $79.99 price tag for 12 month family memberships which can be shared with up to eight people. The $19.99 […]
Should You Read Ask Iwata? Book Review
If you are a gamer chances are you don’t read many books. You only have so much time for hobbies and gaming is an easy hobby to spend a lot of time on. Depending on the games you play you pretty much are reading books, though, if you think about it. Anyway, whether or not […]
Will Metroid Dread Sell 3 Million Copies?
A big point of debate online as Metroid Dread‘s release nears is whether or not it will sell 3 million copies. Some people think it will never happen, and the other side generally thinks it won’t happen within a year. The majority of games get almost all of their sales within the first few months […]
What’s The Best Yakuza Campaign? Mainline Yakuza Campaigns Ranked
In every Yakuza game there are two things to do. You can either progress the main story or do optional content. Most of the time each new game builds on the engine and content of the last game. This would be unfair to older games in a ranking of each game overall. Instead, this ranking […]
Google Stadia (Early 2020)
For the last decade or so the main “core” gaming platforms have been Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo. Late last year Google tried to become one of these by launching Google Stadia, a streaming-only gaming platform. Recently Google has been giving out a lot of free codes for Google Stadia, so a certain video game […]
Shenmue VS. Yakuza (0)
Whenever there is a discussion of Yakuza or Shenmue in the context of Sega’s history it is most likely that a comparison between the games is going to be made. In a lot of ways this comparison is pretty unwarranted since a lot of the similarities are superficial, like how they both take place (at […]
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) Impressions
The latest Animal Crossing game has now been out for three weeks. As far as we know this is going to be another Splatoon situation where this game will be completely different in a few years so trying to give the game a review score at this point isn’t worth it, aside from advising people […]
Vanquish (Xbox 360, PS3) Review
DISCLAIMERS: the reviewer has not finished the game with 100% completion the game was played on the Xbox One S using the Xbox 360 version of the game intended for United States audiences through the backwards compatibility feature of the Xbox One series of consoles Five years after more or less inventing the modern third person […]