Broken Bootlegs- My Experience with Power Joy
Broken Bootlegs is a series covering unlicensed games (also known as bootleg games) for mainly 8-bit and 16-bit consoles. This week’s edition is covers my experiences with my first bit of pirate hardware that originally my interest in playing around with bootleg games and hardware: the Power Joy. It what seems feels a very long […]
The newest trailer for Potions: A Curious Tale is here!
Here at Brokenjoysticks we are super proud of our own Renee Gittins, Shes an indie developer, a community leader, and of course a great writer! So it is with an extreme amount of pride that we present the new Kickstarter trailer for her game Potions: A Curious Tale. Stay a while and Listen to the story […]
Epistory – Typing Chronicles gets a trailer.
Its been a very long time since I learned to type on Mario Teaches typing in the early 1990s. Since then typing games have come and gone, now one company is trying to revive the genre. Epistory – Typing Chronicles is a love story to a type of game thats mostly been ignored for the last […]
7th Dragon III Code: VFD dated for July 12th
SEGA has revealled the release date for their upcoming RPG 7th Dragon III Code: VFD. The game will be launching in the Americas on July 12th! With the game now dated, the folks at SEGA have put together a video that highlights the game’s expansive character creation. In 7th Dragon III Code: VFD you can […]
Bplus gives Puzzle Box early Steam release
Bplus Games have released an early access of their upcoming Steam game Puzzle Box. The game was released on April 1st. Puzzle Box is painting with creative gameplay. You can create fantastic pixel art images, by dropping your color paint blocks in the correct place across the levels. Create colourful bold images in the classic […]
Twitch Streamer Rudeism reaches lvl100 using DDR pads
Some may remember that a couple of months about Twitch Streamer Rudeism started playing World of Warcraft with two DDR pads. Now after months of tapping away with his feet in an effort to level up, he has reached level 100 (the max level in current WoW). He was able to finish the task yesterday , […]
Black OPs III Second DLC Pack, Eclipse, Comes To PS4 In Two Weeks
Activision is set to release the second DLC add-on for Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Eclipse– in just over two weeks. On April 19th PS4 players will be able to dive-in to four brand new multiplayer maps: Spire, Rift, Knockout and Verge. Eclipse also contains a brand new Zombies experience, titled Zetsubou No Shima, […]
Shinigami Battle Dragons In The Bleach X Puzzles & Dragons Crossover
Popular mobile game Puzzles & Dragons opens their door to the Soul Society from Weekly Shonen Jumps long running franchise Bleach in a special two week event. Players will be able to explore several bleach themed dungeons ranging from the intermediate difficulty all the way up to mythic difficulty in their quest to take out […]
Teyon bringing Doll Fashion Atelier to 3DS on April 7th
Teyon Games announced their next release for the Nintendo 3DS eShop, which will be released next week. The title will be released in cooperation with Japanese development studio, Mebius. Doll Fashion Atelier is an adorable dress up party experience. Choose a doll from 5 different themes and dress it up in stunning clothing pieces. There […]
Hands On: This Weekend’s DOOM Beta Was Hellishly Bad
Fans of id Software’s DOOM franchise have literally been waiting years for the closed beta for Bethesda’s upcoming reboot since it was announced via a pack-in advertisement bundled with Wolfenstein: The New Order. After spending 3 hours with a limited version of the game’s multiplayer this weekend I’m left with far more concerns and questions […]
Nintendo to Discontinue DSi Shop in 2017
This is your one year warning. Nintendo recently announced hat in they plan to close the Nintendo DSi Shop in 2017. The digital game service was the predecessor to the eShop and has been available on the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL systems since 2009. If you have Nintendo DSi Points to spend or […]
Oculus Rift Launch. Things Begin to Look Up
The 28th of March was the exciting big launch date of the Oculus Rift, when the premium VR headset would ship to those who had pre-ordered it. Except… It didn’t. Oculus originally generated a lot of excitement by shipping some units early, with some Kickstarter backers of the original devkit, who were promised a free […]
Brand New Overwatch Short ‘Alive’ Debuts
Blizzard’s marketing blitz for their upcoming team shooter Overwatch with the release of a brand new 6 minute self contained animated short. This time things focus on the French assassin Widowmaker, as she moves in for the kill on a VIP in Kings Row. It’s really cool to see Blizzard using the in-game levels as […]
Paragon Early Look
I was lucky enough to get in to the Beta test phase of Paragon from EPIC studios. The game is very ambitious Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game that is challenging many of the traditional MOBA elements, while still keeping to the genres roots. The first thing that anyone who plays this game is going to […]
Ubisoft Files New Beyond Good & Evil Trademark
Ubisoft has filed for a brand new trademark that would cover the oft thought abandoned Beyond Good & Evil franchise. This new trademark would cover game software, clothing, online components to game software and interestingly paper products. While I doubt we could be seeing a BG&E pen & paper RPG, perhaps this new filing lends […]