“A Very Emotional Project” – Fang The Sniper Creator Reunites With Sega To Create New Sonic The Hedgehog Merch

Releasing this Winter in Japan. Shinichi “Touma” Higashi, the former Sega artist perhaps best known for creating the character Fang the Sniper in the Game Gear title Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble, has teamed up with Sega to create a bunch of new vinyl figures based on Sonic and friends. Higashi, in case you’re unfamiliar…

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After a decade of development, Roboquest’s developer is calling time on its roguelite shooter: ‘There’s no way we can continue to provide content for players with over 1,000 hours of gameplay’

When I was a kid, post-launch support was a concept reserved mainly for NASA, and rarely the domain of video games. Sure, you might download the odd online patch on your 56k modem to fix particularly gnarly bugs. But that was more or less it. These days, it’s expected that games will be supported for…

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“Even Though It’s Short, I Tried To Make It Impactful” – Phoenix Wright’s Original Composer Spills The Secrets Of The Game’s “Main Theme”

And debunks a popular fan theory in the process. As you may well be aware, we recently had the opportunity to chat with Masakazu Sugimori, the composer of Gyakuten Saiban for the Game Boy Advance — the game that would later be localized as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for the Nintendo DS. As part of…

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The Switch 2 Scalpers Are Already Out In Force

Life, uh, finds a way. So, we know that the pre-order situation for Switch 2 has been a little more complicated than perhaps Nintendo would have liked, with tariffs postponing the entire process for US customers. There’s also been the fact that various retailers have made pre-orders available before the Big N’s official April 8th…

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