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Insomniac has created some interesting, beautiful, and down right wacky games over the past 15 plus years, but the company will always be most well known for their Ratchet & Clank series. The series itself has evolved in a positive way over time, with each new game building upon the last. With the release of Ratchet & Clank in April, Insomniac did something that no other company who is re-introducing old games into the current marketplace has done.

What do you get when you mix horse racing with Solitare? The answer is, of course, Pocket Card Jockey for the 3DS. Nintendo released a demo for this unique game this week and I tried it out. What did I think of the horse card game’s demo? Read on to find out!   Pocket Card Jockey is a very strange game. When I saw the footage for it during the last Nintendo Direct, I thought that it looked awful. I…

In Nintendo’s last Direct, it was announced that Metroid Prime Federation for the 3DS would come out in Spring. No exact release date was given. And today, Nintendo announced that the title has been delayed… Nintendo announced today in a press release that Metroid Prime Federation Force will be coming out on August 19th. Previously, the title was set for Spring. No reason was given for the delay. The game will be in playable form at PAX East on April…

Yesterday, Nintendo announced a Star Fox Zero animated short that will be released on Wednesday. They also announced that there will be a Treehouse Live after. Here are the details! Get ready to do a barrel roll! Nintendo is releasing a Star Fox Zero animated short tomorrow (April 20th). Its called Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins. The short will air live at 3pm PT and afterward there will be a Treehouse Live about Star Fox Zero and Star Fox…

Before there was graphics, there was the Text Adventure. One part reading, one part imagination, text adventures are just a novelty now but they are a really important part of gaming history. Let me take you on a trip back in time… Once a upon a time, there were no fancy graphics (actually, there were no graphics at all). There wasn’t even gameplay as we know it now. There were no video game consoles; only the PC. I wasn’t alive…

Last week, the Lost Reavers Beta came out on the Wii U eshop. There have been no others betas on the Wii U before; the closest thing was the Splatoon Global Testfire. A beta is a really good chance for a developer to test out the online servers of a game. I played Lost Reavers over the weekend and here are my impressions of the game so far. The Lost Reavers Beta has four characters to play as at the…

What would a bear do if an evil oil company destroyed his forest? Well, if he’s a video game bear, he’ll go after the oil company of course! In Epic Dumpster Bear for Wii U, you play as a bear who platforms his way to justice. Is the journey worth it though? Lets find out!

Bravely Second: End Layer will be coming to retail and the 3DS eshop this week! What does the game have to offer? A new press release from Nintendo Canada fills us in on the details! Bravely Second: End Layer, an rpg for the 3DS, will be coming on Friday (4/15). The title is the sequel to Bravely Default and both titles are by Square Enix. Today, Nintendo Canada released a press release giving more information about the game. I’ll include…

Puzzle adventure games have become increasingly popular every since the launch of the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3, but only a few have risen to the top and have, in effect, dominated the genre. The Uncharted series comes to mind here, as does Lara Croft's Tomb Raider series.

” Hey listen…I’ve heard that the NX is…”. On the internet, anybody can say anything they want. They can tell you the truth and they can lie too. Oh boy they can lie. People especially love to make up rumors about stuff that they love or think they’ll love. They do that with things they hate too. When it comes to video games, this is pretty common. The worst part though is that fan sites will report these rumors…. Rumors…