About This Episode Before the days of media streaming & binging, we were often glued to our sets to watch contestants compete for cash and prizes! From quizzes, to puzzles, to trivia and more, game shows both entertain and allow us to play along at home. So, hands on your buzzers: it’s time to look…
Reigning champ dominates. The latest Japanese Charts are in, courtesy of Famitsu and Gematsu, and it’s another resounding victory for Super Mario Bros. Wonder. The platformer has shifted a further 108,449 copies to make up a cumulative 910,259. It’s not unreasonable to assume that the game will cross the 1,000,000 threshold by this time next…
The addictive and immensely popular Animal Crossing: New Horizons has shifted over five million units at retail in Japan. Famitsu says this number is only for physical copies as download data isn’t revealed by Nintendo. The total number of copies sold is 5,004,720. The Nintendo Switch is also performing well and has shifted 14 million…
I’ve grown weary of 2.5D games in the past few years, with most of my fatigue stemming from the “HD-2D” look Square Enix has embraced with the Octopath series and remakes of its old games. Seeing a pixel art guy ambling around a 3D village with the bloom cranked up just doesn’t do it for…
“It was born very quickly, and it still annoys me!”. If you’ve ever played any games from the Grand Theft Auto developer DMA Design, then you’ve probably at some point come across its logo, the “DMA Man”. The red, green, and blue character, which was created out of the letters that made up the company’s…
“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back”. VR pioneer and Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey caused a stir in the world of retro gaming with the ModRetro Chromatic recently and has made no secret of the fact that he’s keen to produce other consoles in the future. He’s just dropped…
“Sega is an amazing company for allowing that”. Gunstar Heroes, Treasure’s first release on the Mega Drive, is a wild, chaotic two-player run-and-gun game that stands out as one of the best action games of the era. It is also, according to Masato Maegawa, Treasure’s representative masterpiece and the game that put the company on…
Do you own Ubisoft games on your Xbox console but wish you could play them on your PC—but not so much that you’re willing to pay extra for it? If your answer to that oddly specific question is “yes,” and the games in question are one of a list of 13 titles that we’ll get…
With more classics on the way. Two classic PC-88 games — Thexder and Relics — have arrived this month on the Nintendo Switch eShop, via D4 Enterprise and Project EGG. In the past, the Tokyo-based publisher D4 Enterprise has reissued a number of classic games for old Japanese computers like the MSX, PC-88, and PC-98…
Ready to experience a new side of soccer? Today’s the day you can finally get your hands on FIFA 20, and the brand new Volta Football mode! After years of development, we’re excited to give you the chance to go back to the streets and express your style in Volta Football. From taking your favourite…