Halo 5 had a rocky release, while the core gameplay was generally well received, lack of content plagued its multiplayer: No Big Team Battle, no Grifball, no Regicide, no Assault or Infection, it was an anemic Halo experience. However, 343 Industries gave the game every ounce of effort they could in terms of improving and reworking it until it felt ...
Read More »Dark Souls Trilogy considered for release on Nintendo Switch
Dark Souls has been, since the release of the first title, a series released on the Xbox and PlayStation platforms. Nintendo was never on the eyes of From Software, probably because the other, more powerful consoles already struggle at running the behemoths that the Dark Souls games are, so trying to run Dark Souls 2 in a Wii U would ...
Read More »Nier: Automata has western release date and collector’s edition
Nier was quite an interesting game, it had a lot of flaws due to low budget and being a rushed title, but there was real effort on trying to tell a proper story with engaging characters. When the sequel Nier: Automata was announced, questions arose regarding its release date but not many comments about it were made (outside of a ...
Read More »Crash gets remastered in Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
So…PSX was quite a show, huh? The amount of shocking announcements was impressive and it was definitely a memorable conference. One of the games Sony had announced that people knew the least about was the Crash Bandicoot Remaster, revealed back in E3 of this year but with very few details aside from who was going to develop it and the ...
Read More »Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment gets new trailer
Shovel Knight had a very successful kickstarter campaign back in 2013, this has quite helped by the fact that Yacht Club Games had an excellent array of stretch goals, but the stretch goals that gathered the most attention were the ones that talked about playable boss characters. After the game released all eyes were set on the announced 3 boss ...
Read More »Overwatch wins Game of The Year 2016 at The Game Awards
Ever since 2014, gamers have been able to watch the annual award show known as The Game Awards, in which various awards are given to videogames and videogame developers, such as Best Fighting Game, Best Art Direction, or Best Independent Game. The Game Awards 2016 had many interesting games on the spotlight, and games like Doom and Inside won quite ...
Read More »Dragon Quest Builders breaks a million sales worldwide
Dragon Quest Builders was one of the sleeper hits of 2016, this combination of Minecraft, Dragon Quest, and (oddly enough) Actraiser, released with barely any promotion and exclusively on PlayStation 4 (In North America and Europe). Even though this lack of promotion and the fact that it was being released on a crowded period made Dragon Quest Builders look like ...
Read More »Lego Worlds is coming to Xbox One and Playstation 4
Lego Worlds is a PC sandbox game developed by the famous studio Traveller’s Tales and it has been called a Lego version of Minecraft, while the release date of the game was completely unknown for a long time, it did release on Steam Early Access in June 2015, and it was well received for feeling like an efficient translation of ...
Read More »Marvel vs Capcom 4 could be announced soon
2016 is a very important year for the Marvel vs Capcom franchise, as it represents its 20th year anniversary. Ever since the release of X-men vs Street Fighter back in 1996 for the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Saturn, this franchise saw constant sequels until Capcom lost the Marvel license right after launching Marvel vs Capcom 2 in the year ...
Read More »Castlevania: A 30 year game that surprisingly holds up
Games released before 1987 don’t seem to stand up very well to the test of time: the original The Legend of Zelda is an archaic experience that is unplayable without a guide; the original Super Mario Bros now doesn’t control as well as it did decades before; and the original Metroid is a chore to play through thanks to many ...
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