Competitive Splatoon 2 is a high-energy, fast-paced game featuring a variety of modes. It’s a game where comebacks can happen at any time, and tournament organizers don’t make weird decisions about their rule sets. Unless that tournament organizer is Nintendo. The very developer of the game seemingly cannot run a…
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Over the weekend of March 10, The Splatoon 2 LAN, Beakon 2018, took place in Deer Park, New York. This event was a milestone for the game boasting a combined 153 players and spectators bringing with them the largest prize pool of any Splatoon tournament. Beakon 2018 also featured a set of rules that differs from the…
Has-Been Heroes, the 2017 fantasy Roguelike from Frozenbyte, has some very good art.
Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water is determined to link itself to the song “You’ll Never Know” composed by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon. The film features a clip of Alice Faye’s performance of the song in Hello, Frisco, Hello. Sally Hawkins as Elisa Esposito’s only spoken lines in the entire movie are her…
Hi folks! I’m here to talk to you about the value of post-release content. I’m also going to talk a lot about Splatoon 2.
The fighting genre has had a high profile resurgence in 2017. Marvel vs. Capcom, Injustice, Guilty Gear, Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Gundam Versus, Pokken Tournament and ARMS all released or received console ports this year with Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition and Dragon Ball FighterZ being announced. The next video game…
With the release of another Nintendo Nostalgia Machine, the SNES Mini in this instance, comes a deluge of “Games Missing From…” articles. The games featured in these articles are chosen simply because the author wants them to appear on something they don’t. They’re fun to read wishlists. What has more thought behind…
Wow. I didn’t really expect to be writing about Ooblets again so soon, but here we are. Announced today via twitter and their personal blog, Glumberland has reached a deal with famed Psychonauts publisher Double Fine to publish Ooblets. The studio also released a shiny new trailer for the game in what I am sure is…
Ooblets, formerly Moblets, is a game that I have been keeping an eye on for a while now. As a fan of Pokémon or anything adorable, and with the then Moblets, now Ooblets being an adorable Pokémon clone, it caught my interest. Ooblets has since evolved into a “Harvest Moon meets Pokémon meets Animal Crossing” game…
According to Nicalis founder Tyrone Rodriguez (@tyronerodriguez) The Binding of Issac including Rebirth, Afterbirth and Afterbirth+ will be a launch title for the Nintendo Switch. “It means that there is more than just The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on launch” Mr. Rodriguez detailed. The game will launch on…
First, this is not a commentary on the Wii or the Wii U. I have never owned either system, so I am unfit to comment on the quality of either system. This is more an article of how not owning them left me feeling lost in the gaming world. It’s not that I stopped gaming during that time. It’s that I had no variety in a…
