Month: August 2015
Autobots or Decepticons? Choose your side in Splatoon!
After a series of Cats vs Dogs splatfests, the ante is about to be upped in the next round with a joined venture between Nintendo and Hasbro. Are you team Autobot or team Decepticon? Nintendo and Hasbro are joining forces to help you defend your robot allegiances in the Splatoon game for the Wii U […]
August 13th Nintendo Download
Pandora’s Tower – Pandora’s Tower tells a haunting tale about a cursed young woman’s slow transformation into a hideous beast, and the lengths to which the man she loves will go in order to save her. The stylish action RPG originally launched for the Wii console and is now available to download in the Nintendo […]
What’s New On PlayStation (08.18.2015)
The latest PlayStation Store update for North America is now upon us! Some noteworthy new releases including Ubisoft’s enhanced port for the 2012 Wii-U exclusive Zombi onto the PS4, a new version Helldivers that includes a bunch of bundled DLC and a brand new dungeon crawler for the PlayStation Vitas in the form of Dungeon […]
Super Mario Maker Supports Sonic, Pit & Splatoon Amiibo
Remember a few months ago back at E3 when Nintendo revealed that certain Amiibo like the Wii Fit trainer would change Mario’s sprite in Super Mario Maker? Well it turns out you can earn this skins for the red plumber without forking over nearly forty bucks for a Wii Fit trainer or other rare Amiibo. […]
BrokenCast EP 02: The Fire Emblem Conundrum
This week on BrokenCast Rae Michelle Richards sits down and talks with Andrea Ritsu and C.K Oliver about the recent controversy surrounding Nintendo’s upcoming Fire Emblem Fates for the Nintendo 3DS as well as queer relationships in videogames. For those who are unaware there is a female NPC in the game named Soleil who is […]
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 | Review
The Resident Evil series has seen brighter days and it is only beginning to undo the damage that Resident Evil 6 inflicted upon the franchise with entries like the recent HD remake of the original game heading to current generation consoles. Capcom is trying something new with the RE franchise by adopting an episodic format […]
Final Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Map Pack Out Sept 3rd
Call of Duty fans on Windows PC and PlayStation 4 will finally be able to get their hands on the last map pack, Reckoning, for last year’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on September 3rd Activision has announced. Combining four new multiplayer maps (see descriptions below) and a conclusion to the “Exo Zombies” mode originally […]
Capcom Finally Commits To Developing An HD Remake of Resident Evil 2
Fans have been clamoring for an HD update to Capcom’s 1998 classic Resident Evil 2 for well over a decade and now the publisher has announced that production on a reboot of the game has begun at Capcom R&D Division 1. Capcom has been on a bit of a roll with the Resident Evil franchise […]
Halo Wars Gets a Sequel For 2016
At their GamesCom 2015 conference Microsoft announced that a sequel to 2009’s Halo Wars is being produced by long time RTS developer Creative Assembly. The folks over at CA are probably best known for the Total War series but they also developed the critically acclaimed Aliens: Isolation this past Fall. Very little is known about […]
Introducing BrokenCast Our Brand New Podcast
BrokenJoysticks has been providing our readers with quality written content for the past three years and after 3,000 written articles we’ve decided to branch out into the realm of podcasts. We plan to produce a brand new hour long podcast every week! Join host Rae Michelle Richards as she discusses some important issues within the […]
August 6th Nintendo Download
Super Smash Bros. DLC – Fans of the Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U games can now add even more fun with several free updates and new DLC for purchase on both versions. Free updates include a K.K. Slider costume for Mii Fighters, plus new Community Tournament and Regular Tournament modes and […]
Journey | Review
ThatGameCompany’s Journey is a game that I had heard a whole ton of positive things about but I never got the chance to play it when it was originally released in 2012 on the PS3. Now that Tricky Pixels has ported the game to Sony’s latest platform and it is included in the 2015 Summer […]
Final Fantasy XII HD Unexpectedly Teased
This past Saturday during the Final Fantasy Distant Worlds concert Final Fantasy concert composer Arnie Roth let word slip that an HD remaster of Final Fantasy XII will be out “soon”. As avid Square fans might know this is not one of the many Final Fantasy titles expected for release in the coming years which […]