Month: January 2016
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Hits Wii U Virtual Console
Just yesterday Square Enix released Final Fantasy Explorers for the Nintendo 3DS and now tomorrow their classic GBA game Final Fantasy Tactics Advance will arrive on the Nintendo Wii U Virtual Console. The fate of the kingdom Ivalice is once again in your hands, only this time instead of the GameBoy Advance holding Ivalice it […]
PlayStation Plus’ Feb 2016 Line-Up Is Here
February is the month of live and the team at PlayStation have decided to bring six brand new titles to the Instant Games Collection next month. Helldivers, a futuristic twin-stick shooter published by Sony Computer Entertainment America will make a hard landing on all three platforms. Nom Nom Galaxy and indie game that blends platforming, […]
Super Mario Maker servers down for Maintenence
Nintendo currently carrying out maintenance to fix a bug that occurs in “Create” mode and has taken the Super Mario Maker servers offline. Until the updates are complete, online services for the game will be unavailable. Nintendo is in the midst of preparing a software update to fix this bug. The online service will be […]
Video: PS4 title ZOKUZOKU 2016 “feat. Tofubeats”
This is worth a post all it’s own. Now this is how you advertise your upcoming lineup. What we have here is a video made by Sony and an artist called Tofubeats. The video itself is in Japanese, but the gist is they’re rapping about the the 19 big upcoming titles for PS4 that will be released from […]
Hard Reset Redux Reboots On Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC
Flying Wild Hog, probably best known for their reboot of the Shadow Warrior franchise, is preparing to rebalance and upgrade their 2012 first person shooter Hard Reset for current generation consoles and a second go at Windows PC due out later this year. Specific enhancements include graphical upgrades, new enemies, weapons and a glowing cyber […]
PC gaming passes mobile gaming as most profitable sector of gaming industry
Superdata a market research firm, are reporting this week that the digital games market in 2015 was worth $61 billion across all platforms. This is over 8% more than last years numbers. Despite the largest jump (34%) being in digital sales on consoles, League of Legends leads the pack for most money made by a game in […]
EA’s Star Wars Battlefront DLC Plans Unveiled
Electronic Arts has finally outlined its plans for downloadable content for Star Wars: Battlefront for three content drops that will arrive between January and March as well as the mysterious Season’s Pass that has until now only been described in quite vague terms. Players who chose to not invest in the potentially overpriced Season’s Pass […]
Activision Bringing TMNT to PlayStation, Xbox this Summer
Activision announced today that they have teamed with Nickelodeon and PlatinumGames to create Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan, a third-person action game featuring New York City’s crime-fighting Heroes in a Half-Shell. Players will protect The Big Apple from aliens, mutants and the Foot Clan in a single-player campaign or partner with up to […]
Video: Rockets Only On High Ground (Halo PC)
I just had the most entertaining match of Halo Online that I think I’ve played in the past few days and I just had to cut it out and share it with readers. High Ground is one of the maps from Halo 3 that will be burned in my mind after playing it so much […]
Square Enix & Ubisoft Games On Sale On PSN This Week
Square Enix and Ubisoft games headline the weekly sales available for all PSN members this week. In this latest weekly sale many games from the Final Fantasy and Far Cry series are available at a reduced price, and even more if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. If you missed out on the Final […]
Broken Bootlegs- A Link to the Past
Broken Bootlegs is a new weekly series covering unlicensed games (also known as bootleg games) for mainly 8-bit and 16-bit consoles. For this week I’ll introduce what bootleg games are, along with a review for A Link to the Past for the Famicom. Sometimes these types of games are an unauthorized port of one game […]
Reminder: The Division Beta Pre-load Is Now Available
Just a gentle reminder that if you have guaranteed access to the Tom Clancy’s The Division beta that runs this weekend that your pre-load is probably available. Redemption varies between platforms and if you didn’t get guaranteed access through pre-ordering the game and you are on the “wait list” then these might not apply to you […]
Resident Evil shooter gets a release date: May
Turning the beloved atmospheric third person shooter/adventure game Resident Evil in to a “competitive shooter” is a decision that when it was announced was questioned by both industy and fan alike. Why would we want this? What purpose could this serve? Resident Evil isint even really a shooter! The fans cried. They were confused, this […]
EA Teases Battlefront Announcement For Tomorrow
It looks like Star Wars: Battlefront fans will be receiving some much-welcomed news tomorrow, if a post on the official Battlefront Twitter account is to be believed. Although not much detail was given aside from a mysterious tweet that read “Prepare for a cold front coming through #StarWarsBattlefront tomorrow… “, a recent community event held […]
Nintendo 3DS System Updated to Version 10.5.0-30U
It’s been exactly one week since the last system update, but the Nintendo 3DS firmware has been updated again. This is a very minor update which updates the 3DS system from version 10.4.0-29 U to version 10.5.0-30U. There aren’t any big changes in this update, with the only text on the update the very same […]