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After many years, Apple is loosening some of its restrictive practices. In a recent update this week, Apple announced that game emulators can come to the App Store globally and offer downloadable games (via The Verge). This bold move from the company allows retro console emulators already on Android to bring their apps over to the iPhone and App...
The highly anticipated Paper Mario remake, which is based on the beloved cult classic Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the Nintendo GameCube, has recently been rated in Brazil and Korea. The game's potential early release seems likely, which currently holds a placeholder in 2024. [embed]https://twitter.com/the_marmolade/status/17171889353...
The recent announcement of Dotemu and Tribute Games' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is another addition to the awesome wave of new-yet-kinda-old beat-em-ups we've been seeing since 2019's River City Girls. It's also a stark reminder that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had been a merchandise juggernaut since the 90s, video games ...
Live A Live is a Square Enix JRPG featuring multiple protagonists in different eras and time periods, all culminating into one grand final arc. The game's narrative ties this together with a recurring malevolent force that serves as each era's final boss. You can check out our spoiler-free review of Live A Live here; it's one of this year's best...
Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: JRPG with multiple protagonists that eventually converge The Japanese role-playing game genre has always prided itself with getting a ragtag bunch of heroes from different walks of life banding with each other to combat a common foe or escalating situation that threatens them and the world. But what if those her...
Publisher Deck13 and developer Matthias Linda have announced an old-school type JRPG that's sure to tingle retro gaming fans who yearn for the days of 90s role-playing console gaming. The game is called Chained Echoes, and it's billed as a 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System-style RPG set in a fantasy world with a charming cast, fantastic...
Missed the 2D top-down shooter action days of Pocky & Rocky/Kiki Kaikai featuring the shrine maiden/tanuki duo? Well, Natsume Atari and developer Tengo Project has you covered. The Pocky & Rocky Reshrined remake, which features new graphics and game modes, will be out for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on 21 April in Japan and 24 June...
With a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat-em-up title coming from DotEmu and Tribute Games, as well as a collection featuring the best TMNT titles made by Konami back in the 90s, it seems like Turtle Power may be making a comeback of sorts in 2022. It makes most of us forget about some of the stumbles the franchise has taken in its multiple form...
Publisher Arc System Works and developer WayForward are delaying its upcoming port of Shin Nekketsu Kouha: Kunio-tachi no Banka -or River City Girls Zero- to next year. Originally scheduled for late 2021, both companies said they will release the game in early 2022 so that they have more time to "achieve the most accurate port and best experienc...
We bid farewell to yet another legend of video games. Masayuki Uemura, the lead architect for the Famicom/NES and the Super Famicom/SNES has passed away on 6th December. He was 78, according to an Oricon News report. Previously, Uemura worked at Sharp, selling photocell technology to various companies. Though everything changed when he got a ...
Platform(s): PC (version played), PS4, Nintendo Switch Genre: Half 2D action game, half god simulator Let's just get this out of the way: on first impression, the 2021 remake of the SNES action game-slash-god-simulator hybrid Actraiser is not a heavenly sight. The pre-rendered graphics just make the look really garish and ugly to look at, with ...
Square Enix's Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster has a release date : 28 July 2021. However, the games in the remastering (Final Fantasy to Final Fantasy VI) will not be released as one bundle. Instead, each remastered game will be out as individual releases. This is still tentative, as Square Enix deleted a recent video that details the remaster. ...
Near, the developer known for making SNES emulator BSNES, has taken their own life (via NintendoLife & ResetEra). https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1409176583433179137%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendolife.com%2Fnews%2F2021%2F06%2Fthe_dev_...
The Super Mario titles from Nintendo are arguably the most influential and iconic games around. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably lying through their teeth. Without the mind of Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto at the helm of these mothership games, there wouldn't be a Nintendo at all in the late 80s and the 90s. In fact, Nintendo and ...
It looks like Square Enix has filed a trademark for the 1994 Super Famicom game Live A Live on 2 July 2020. For those unfamiliar, Live A Live is a time-travelling JRPG that was directed by Takashi Tokita, the man who would go on to direct the ultimately more iconic and popular also time-travelling JRPG, Chrono Trigger. You could say that Live A Li...
Few games out there have a cultural footprint as significant as Final Fantasy. Originally a fantasy role-playing game inspired by western titles such as Ultima and Wizardry, the first Final Fantasy in 1987 was a small project that followed four Warriors of Light as they set off on a grand adventure to save their world. The game was a commercial su...
This week marks the birth week of the very first Squaresoft mecha-heavy turn-based strategy RPG title Front Mission, a 1995 Super Famicom title that mixes Battletech mecha fights with allusions of politics in a sci-fi world. There are five main entries and a number of side games in the series. The main games have their ups and downs, but they're s...
Did you know that we wouldn't be getting a bunch of Nintendo theme parks, Nintendo-branded mobile games, and even an upcoming Mario movie from Illumination were it not for one of Nintendo's prized possessions? According to Nintendo's legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, he talks about why his stance towards the Mario movie changed since the 1...
Our resident RPG guru Mr Toffee was disappointed with The Secret of Mana remake last year. It felt very cheaply-made, the added dialogue and story bits did not help elevate the source material, and it somehow made the 1992 original game superior. Based on what we've seen at E3 2019's Treehouse live stream, Square Enix is making amends with the tru...
It's good to see a game like Chrono Trigger getting more acclaim and praise 24 years later. According to a Famitsu poll (via Siliconera), the Squaresoft JRPG was voted the best game in the Heisei period. This was followed by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and NieR: Automata at 2nd and 3rd place respectively. The poll had 7,158 readers par...
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