“We have to make the game without the movie”. Before he punched torpedoes in Fast and Furious movies, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was set to star in a movie adaptation of Midway’s then-recently rebooted Spy Hunter game series. As was the norm in the mid-2000s, a game adaptation of the movie (based on a game)…
Taking the throne for the fourth week in a row. The latest Japanese charts are in from Famitsu (via Gematsu) and it has been yet another strong one for Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which once again out-jumps the competition to land in the top spot with another 65,017 copies sold. While Mario’s latest 2D adventure…
Summary The Skull of Siren Song Voyage sails in with the latest Sea of Thieves content update, available November 16 and free for all players with Xbox Game Pass and across Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows 10/11, and Steam.Race and battle against other crews to be the first to recover and deliver the mysterious…
Afterlife sim. There’s no shortage of games where you have to cleanse a town of ghosts. But do those games let you cleanse the ghosts themselves? Spirittea does. Canadian solo developer Cheesemaster brings us this Japanese- and Korean-inspired afterlife sim. It’s a brew of Spirited Away, Stardew Valley, and other things that mostly goes down…
Featuring insights from Gail Tilden, Scott Douwes, and Kim Logan. If you missed the Portland Retro Gaming Expo last month and the 35 Years of Nintendo Power Magazine panel, then we have some great news to share. The roughly 46-minute panel is now available to view on Art of Nintendo Power’s YouTube channel, letting you…
Out Run! Space Harrier! Virtua Fighter! Daytona USA 2! It’s fair to say that many people’s minds were blown when Yu Suzuki included fully playable arcade games in his Dreamcast magnum opus Shenmue, and while that series continues to this very day, the retro-gaming torch has passed to another Sega franchise: Yakuza (now known as…
It lives! Superhero movies appear to have hit a bump in the road of late, with Marvel struggling to maintain its cinematic universe and DC finding that nostalgia alone isn’t enough to turn films like The Flash into box office gold. The genre is still big business, however, and Sony – which owns the cinematic…
Available to preorder until December 15th. Atari earlier this month announced that it had partnered up with the ’80s fashion brand Members Only to bring out a modernized take on the classic Atari clubhouse jackets from the 1980s. This was a special collection of Atari jackets that were exclusively available to paying members of its…
It’ll be here in a flash. Developer and publisher Microids has launched Flashback 2 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, though unfortunately, it looks like Switch owners will need to wait a little longer, specifically until sometime in Q1 2024. The game, developed with original Flashback creator Paul Cuisset, is a direct sequel to…
Savings are already going live! Black Friday, the biggest shopping event of the year, is almost here once again! This year’s Black Friday bonanza officially gets underway on Friday 24th November and is sure to provide fantastic deals on Nintendo Switch games, eShop credit, controllers, accessories, and more. Some retailers are actually kicking things off…