Author: Rae Michelle Richards
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 […]
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 […]
FFXIV: Heavensward – Early Story Impressions
It’s been about a month since the last time I wrote about my experience with Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward. Unfortunately I forgot to write a new entry in my proposed series of articles about Square Enix’s latest expansion. Since the early access period expired at the end of June my bard, Reka Ai’a, has ventured […]
August 2015 PS Plus: Tomb Raider, Limbo & Sound Shapes
PlayStation owners can rest easy knowing that Sony has announced the free titles for next month’s PlayStation Plus line-up. It looks like there will be a little bit of something for everyone with PS4 users getting Lara Croft & The Temple of Osiris and Limbo for free. PS Vita owners will get access to Castlestorm, […]
Games For Gold Announced For August 2015
If you are a fan of action games than this month’s crop of free titles for Xbox Live’s Games With Gold might interest you. First up for Xbox One – just before the launch of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is MGS V: Ground Zeroes for free from August 1st – 15th. Top […]
Rise of the Tomb Raider Coming To PlayStation In Holiday 2016
As it turns out the console exclusivity deal for Crystal Dynamic’s Rise of the Tomb Raider is simply a timed exclusive deal, something neither publisher Square Enix or Microsoft mentioned during the games numerous appearances at E3 2014, Gamescom 2014 or this past E3. In a press release issued this morning Square Enix confirmed that […]
Phantasy Star Online 2 Anime Due Out In 2016
SEGA of Japan has announced an animated adaptation of its popular Japanese free-to-play MMORPG Phantasy Star Online. The anew anime titled Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation will debut sometime in 2016 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the original PSO on the Dreamcast and will take place on a near future presumably before the […]
Titanfall | Review
Version Tested: PC Titanfall is Respawn Entertainment’s first foray into the online shooter arena since their formation after the huge breakup at Infinity Ward several years ago. Hoping to carve out a space in the FPS for themselves, can giant mechs and the addition of A.I opponents to a traditionally player vs player environment will […]