Retro

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are returning to video games in a retro styled 2D beat ’em up! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge has been announced. Check out the trailer and then come back to see me geek out about this Turtles game! Wow! What a surprise! A new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game has been announced and…it looks awesome! Teenage Mutant Ninja: Shredder’s Revenge is a 2D beat ’em up in the style of The Arcade Game, Turtles…

Do you like Shovel Knight? Do you like Panzer Paladin? Do you like Castlevania?! Then we have a game you might be interested in! Check out my review of Cathedral for the Nintendo Switch. I love Castlevania. Let me get that out of the way. I’m also a big fan of Shovel Knight and Panzer Paladin. Yes I’m a complete sucker for 8-bit style Metroidvania game. Cathedral for the Nintendo Switch is a really good one! In Cathedral you play…

Nintendo of America announced a Direct on Twitter today! This will be the first Nintendo Direct of 2021. The Nintendo Direct will air at 4pm central time! It will be “roughly 50 minutes of information” according to Nintendo’s tweet. That is a really long Direct! Nintendo tends to reveal a lot of games in a short amount of time so what could they reveal in 50 minutes?! Nintendo points out Super Smash Bros Ultimate especially. That will mean we’ll get…

Last year was…well it was 2020. What else needs to be said? And this year isn’t better yet. However we do know what games will be coming out for the Nintendo Switch in February, March, and April. So does Nintendo need to do a regular Nintendo Direct soon? And will they ever do a Direct again? As a bonus to my thoughts, check out the very first Nintendo Direct below! Last week Nintendo released a trailer and new information for…

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game has been a mythical beat ’em up for awhile. It couldn’t be bought on modern consoles. Those who had it on old systems either guarded those systems with their life or they no longer had this game. And now Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game is on the Nintendo Switch (and other systems). Is this mythical game as good as people say or has nostalgia lead us astray? I’ll be honest with…

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! This time I share my thoughts about this year in video games and just how lucky video game fans were compared to, oh say movie fans or tv show fans. Time to reflect and hug your video games or you know, thank a video game developer. Well, we made it to the holidays. Its been a bad year. I think most of us can agree that 2020 sucked and we never want to see it again.…

GRAVEN is an immersive, dark fantasy first person adventure with a late-90s graphical aesthetic

Nintendo had an Indie World Showcase video today! What was shown off? Check out the video below and then please come back here for some thoughts on today’s Indie reveals. Some good looking games were shown during the Indie World Showcase today. I wouldn’t say that this video was as mind blowing as some previous Indie showcases were but it was still pretty good. For me, the standout games in the video were Calico (out today), Spelunky 1 and 2,…

Hey, you know that Wild Game Awards predictions article I did? Turns out it was pretty wild. Not a single thing right! Also…um…I only sort of watched The Game Awards! I saw some of it. Let me explain… Last night The Game Awards aired. Also, Disney announced a ton of stuff. I mean they announced new Star Wars shows/movies, new Marvel shows/movies, new Pixar stuff, new Disney stuff. They showed trailers even! It was crazy. And they were live streaming…

Its that time again: The Game Awards will air tonight! Whether you watch it on YouTube or twitch or twitter, you should check out this show. You just never know what will be revealed during the Game Awards. And really, isn’t that what we care about? Not the Awards, no never that, but the announcements! The trailers! So what will we see tonight? Here are my wild, never will these happen predictions. Real Talk: Its 2020. If we get one…