Released over 8 years ago in March of 2017, the Nintendo Switch was the console/handheld hybrid that let players take their games wherever they wanted and finally delivered on the promise made by the Sega Nomad in the 90s. The Wii U, Nintendo’s last home console before the Switch, was a precursor to this concept…
The annual Game Awards took place this past Thursday, and while there wasn’t a bombshell announcement like Wonder Woman or Blade – both of which were sadly absent this year – there was still something for lovers of retro comic book video games to get excited over. BATMAN: ARKHAM SHADOW TAKES HOME GOLD AND TUROK…
This summer, Nintendo opened up a new channel of their subscription service Nintendo Switch Online Plus Expansion Pack tier specifically for M-rated Nintendo 64 games. Aptly titled MATURE 17+, it’s a separate application from the one that houses the other Nintendo 64 classics like Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.…
Sometimes dreams really do come true. Mere hours ago, Nintendo dropped their big June Direct, and while it was firmly focused on the current Nintendo Switch and not its successor, it was still full of huge announcements. The biggest, of course, being that Capcom’s Marvel games are finally coming to modern devices. Marvel vs. Capcom…
DEVELOPER: Acclaim Studios Austin (original)/Nightdive Studios (remaster) PUBLISHER: Nightdive Studios REVIEWED ON: Nintendo Switch from a copy purchased by the author. To read out thoughts on the Nintendo 64 original, click HERE. It’s fair to say that the Nintendo 64 was kept afloat against the juggernaut that was Sony’s first PlayStation because of Nintendo’s own…
This fall has seen all but one comic book video game, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, get a delay of some sort. Hellboy: Web of Wyrd exchanged its early October release date for one 2 days before Insomniac’s sequel, and Batman: Arkham Trilogy, a game that was originally slated to launch on October 13th, will now arrive…
Since their inception, Nightdive’s name has become synonymous with high-quality remasters and remakes of classic first-person shooters. Just this year alone they launched a critically acclaimed remake of System Shock 2, and modern updates for both Rise of the Triad and Quake II. Thanks to Nightdive Studios, players who grew up with Acclaim’s Turok series…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The writer of this article was given an advance look at FPS: First Person Shooter. First-person shooters, which not a few decades ago people referred to as “DOOM clones” after id Software’s ground breaking title spawned an ocean of imitators in the then unnamed genre , are still among the most played today.…
I can remember it like it was yesterday. While taking a trip to my local Wal-Mart, one of the first things that greeted me when I walked in the door – other than an actual greeter – was a TV with a new console hooked up to it. In it was a cartridge for the…
In a case of better late than never, Nightdive Studios’ lovingly crafted remasters of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil found their way to the PlayStation family of consoles this year. Previously, the duo had come to PC, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch with PlayStation being the last holdout. Like it was…
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