NEWS

Stretchmo came as quite a surprise. Without any advertisement or promotion, Nintendo published Stretchmo on the Nintendo eShop on May 14. The title is free to download, and seven puzzles come with the free version. Players can then choose to purchase additional puzzles in separate packs or as a complete bundle. Mallo’s Playtime Plaza brings 100 puzzles to the game for $4.99, Poppy’s ...

After many years, The Witcher 3 is finally upon us. At the time of writing, I’ve just finished The Witcher 2 for the first time, and The Witcher 3 has just become available. While I eagerly await the download of what many are already hailing as one of the best RPG’s of all time, a question came to mind: Why ...

During E3 2014, Bethesda surprised everybody with a teaser trailer for DOOM, which revealed next to nothing about the game beyond big scary aliens, big guns, and the fact that opening doors will be making the same sound they always have. It was a huge announcement for the gaming world as a whole, with the original DOOM being such a ...

You may be familiar with the console wars in which the fans of three factions; Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, battle it out on discussion boards and comment sections, determined to prove why their console is better than the other. Until very recently there has been a faction mostly overlooked, which is actually showing its face more commonly in these discussions, and ...

There was a bit of a scare recently for those that are awaiting the release of ESO for consoles. Perhaps more so for those that were going to wait awhile and attempt to grab a used copy of the game on the cheap. This is one of the perks of console gaming. People waiting for ESO for console may have heard about ...

Like a fart in an elevator, remastered games are going no where, according to Capcom at least. The publisher of the Resident Evil and Street Fighter franchises have recently announced they plan to follow up the successful remastering of the original Resident Evil with more remasters of past favourites. During a recent financial briefing, the Japanese publisher announced, “HD remasters of our catalogue hit titles will ...

I remember the day when I decided to build my own computer.  Everyone I knew was doing it and I felt I needed to prove my merit as a nerdy geeked out teenager.  Deciding which memory I would go with was one of the hardest decisions of my venture.  Should I include 8GB or 16GB in my PC?  The question ...

As E3 grows ever-closer, the eternal conflict between cynical games journalists and PR specialists wages on. The former warning us against the dangers of getting excited for unreleased products, and the latter trying to get us all to board the hype train for these new releases, keeping the community buzzing. While hype can, in fact, be dangerous to the consumers, it’s ...

Destiny’s new expansion “House of Wolves” is coming on May 19th, and I’m more than a little excited. On top of a new game type, a competitive multiplayer mode, and a new social space, we’re going to have s hot in the arm full of brand new loot. The new assortment of items in House of Wolves is shaping up ...

Not too long ago, Nintendo’s promising new IP “Splatoon” was given a global testfire; Nintendo’s name for a beta test, or otherwise brief beta period. This is a smart decision on Nintendo’s part that lets people on the fence about Splatoon see if the game’s for them or not, and the last Global Testfire was received very well. Earlier today, ...