Rayman Legends review

Rayman Legends review

Shut up and take my lums!

When it comes nailing the platformer genre to be fun for both single and multiplayer, Ubisoft has truly come around with the release of Rayman Legends. From my hours of playing it, I felt nothing but amazed at the gorgeous looking environments, character animation, clever and well thought out level design.... read more

Swords & Soldiers HD review

Swords & Soldiers HD review

A strange but fun adventure

Swords & Soldiers HD is a side-scrolling real-time strategy game in the vein of a Saturday morning cartoon. It offers a mixed bag of fun and camp rolled all into one and makes sure not to take itself too seriously. Three factions are playable: Vikings, Aztecs, and Imperial Chinese. The campaign mode offers... read more

GAIABREAKER new screenshots

GAIABREAKER new screenshots

Is There Too Much Fire Emblem in Super Smash Bros?

Is There Too Much Fire Emblem in Super Smash Bros?

No, and here's why...

It was Friday morning, during my daily routine of neglecting my day job to scroll through the latest video game headlines, that I learned a new Super Smash Bros character reveal was heading our way. I took a moment to flip through my mental catalog of previous announcements, comparing who had already been... read more

Wooden Sen'SeY new screenshots

Wooden Sen'SeY new screenshots

Wooden Sen'SeY hits Wii U next week

Wooden Sen'SeY hits Wii U next week

On July 24th, hai!

Wooden Sen'SeY is a great looking action platformer from developers Upper Byte, and it's coming to the Wii U eShop on July 24th. The game stars Goro, an oriental gent with a grappling hook and the skills to use it. He's on a quest to retrieve his stolen bottles of delicious SeY. Check out this video,... read more

2014 Elite Status Gifts Have Been Announced!

2014 Elite Status Gifts Have Been Announced!

Choose your game..

After diligently collecting and redeeming our Club Nintendo coin for months, the moment has arrived where Gold Status and Platinum Status members will receive their bonus reward. In order to achieve Elite Status membership, a Club Nintendo user needed to have at least 300 lifetime coins for Gold Status... read more

Cost's Two Cents: The Graphics Asymptote

Cost's Two Cents: The Graphics Asymptote

How much better can we make our games look?

NOTE: Articles labeled "Cost's Two Cents" are NOT intended to be cited or interpreted as factual pieces like the other News on this site. These are my opinions, observations, and the like, often sprinkled with some facts mixed in. Enjoy. The video game industry has been around long enough to where... read more

Soon Shine new screenshots

Soon Shine new screenshots

Soon Shine announced for Wii U

Soon Shine announced for Wii U

Give it a glow?

The small indie outfit Dahku Creations has announced a new game coming to the Wii U eShop: Soon Shine. Soon Shine is played entirely on the GamePad's touch screen and players have to fight off hordes of energy-hungry spirits. All the action takes place on a single screen. Check out this trailer for a... read more

The Letter review

The Letter review

OH. MY. GOD.

Of all the thoughts The Letter raised as I suffered through it, all the confusing, demonic, twisted wisps of consciousness, only one has survived, only one nags at the back of my head, one simple word encompassing my entire experience with this intolerable spawn... Why? Why, I ask, would Nintendo... read more

New Features in Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire

New Features in Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire

And Pickachu takes up Cosplaying

A new video on The Official Pokemon YouTube Channel on surfaced today, revealing multiple new features to the game. The video begins revealing some of the gym leaders and Elite Four, but then also reveals some of the mechanics that will be found in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. The first of these... read more

BLOK DROP U review

BLOK DROP U review

Short, but sweet

A wonderful thing about eShop is how more puzzle games are appearing for us to enjoy. Two Tribes gave us cheap tasters due to some financial troubles and most of them came out quite well. Blocks are essential in puzzle gaming when it comes to simplicity and addiction, the most well known example is of... read more

Cocoro Line Defender review

Cocoro Line Defender review

Defend your line!

Cocoro Line Defender is best described as a 2D Tower defense game. You play as different elements who are in a war and must defend your base while attacking and eventually destroying the opponents' base. You're given different units, weapons and one special attack to accomplish this, but it all falls a bit... read more

Fire Emblem Awakening makes a Super Smash Bros splash

Fire Emblem Awakening makes a Super Smash Bros splash

Lucina, Chrom, more and a special return guest

As the months dwindle down until the release of Super Smash Bros for 3DS and the Wii U, one this is clear, this game is shaping up to have the best roster of any of the titles yet. In a new reveal trailer on the official Super Smash site, characters from the latest Fire Emblem title, Fire Emblem:... read more

Super Robo Mouse new screenshots

Super Robo Mouse new screenshots

Sonic Chaos review

Sonic Chaos review

Not a mandatory Master System game, but it certainly holds its own

The Sonic franchise had a long line of games in the early days, many of them considered some of the best from their two respective systems. Whilst of course the first two Sonics on the Genesis sold incredibly well, the two Master System counterparts also sold well in Master System-centric areas. Sonic the... read more
  • July 13th, 2014
  • Jonathan Ashley Moore
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Nintendo commercial for eShop games

Nintendo commercial for eShop games

It's official

Over on their YouTube channel, the Nintendo team has put together a little 30 second commercial promoting the eShop and its array of quality games that people can choose from. The ad showreels a whole load of titles, including recent additions like Armillo, Shovel Knight and Guacamelee! - alongside... read more

Armillo review

Armillo review

A debut worth bragging about

Taking inspiration from several different platformers, Armillo is the debut game of developer Fuzzy Wuzzy Games. Having been in development since 2011, the game has managed to slowly build up a small crowd of interested gamers for quite some time. Was it worth the wait? Armillo has you playing as (get... read more

Rabi Laby 3 new screenshots

Rabi Laby 3 new screenshots

Poker on the Wii

Read 'em and weep

Titles like World Championship Poker and World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions are a hit on the Wii.
  • July 11th, 2014

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