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Nintendo released the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack on October 25. I got the service yesterday and here are my first thoughts on it. The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack is here! Nintendo released the service on October 25th and I got it yesterday. As of this moment, there are Nintendo 64 games and Sega Genesis games available. Here are my thoughts on each of the apps and some of the games: SEGA GENESIS When you first start up the…

Square Enix remastered Final Fantasy 7-10 and 12 awhile back and soon…those will be coming to PS Now. Read on below to find out when you can play those games on the PS Now service. Final Fantasy 7-10 and 12 will be added to the PS Now service through 2022. Here are the dates that the games are expected: Final Fantasy 7 on September 7, 2021 Final Fantasy 8 Remastered on October 5, 2021 Final Fantasy 9 on November 2,…

Nintendo announced today that there would be an IndieWorld Showcase video on 8/11. Hey thats tomorrow! We have the details below. An IndieWorld Showcase will air tomorrow at 11am central. According to Nintendo it will be “roughly 20 minutes of information on upcoming indie games heading to #NintendoSwitch.” No details were provided on what indie games will be shown. Judging by previous IndieWorld Showcases, it will be a mix of new announcements and updates on titles we’ve seen before. There…

Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol are now available for the Nintendo Switch (and other systems). Zombies Ate My Neighbors is finally playable on modern consoles! As I mentioned in a previous article, I played this game when I was kid. It was one of my favorites and I’m so happy to see it on the Switch! I didn’t even know it had a sequel until this re-release was announced. You better believe I would have played it ages…

Do you like Sony’s game builder Dreams? Do you wish Nintendo had an interesting, more complex game builder too? Then you should check out this review of Game Builder Garage for the Nintendo Switch! Game Builder Garage is unlike any other game on the Nintendo Switch eshop right now. Yes, we’ve seen other game makers on the system like Super Mario Maker 2 and RPG Maker MV. However, Game Builder Garage is more complex than those games and offers more…

E3 2021 is over! Was it the best E3 ever? Nope. Was it fun? Yep. But, who won? Did anyone win? Let’s talk about who the “winner” of E3 is! E3 2021 was alright. It wasn’t the best E3 ever. It wasn’t even the best game related event this year (those State of Plays and the Dragon Quest event rocked) but it did offer some surprises and delightful games. Xbox and Nintendo did good. Ubisoft and Square Enix were not…

Okay I was going to wait until tomorrow for the Xbox/Bethesda and Square Enix events to write more columns, but…I really need to talk about the Wholesome Direct. We just have to talk about the best E3 event so far! In case you missed it, you can check it out in the video below. Some of you may have missed the best E3 2021 event so far. It was not Summer Game Fest or Ubisoft Forward…no. It was… THE WHOLESOME…

Nintendo of America announced their E3 plans today! Let’s take a look and talk about it some. Nintendo will have an E3 Direct on June 15th at 11:00am central time. Following that they will have a Nintendo Treehouse Live. The Direct will be about 40 minutes long, focused on games ” mostly releasing in 2021″. and the Treehouse will last for about three hours! Whew. 40 minutes for a Nintendo Direct is pretty long. You have to especially consider how…

Naked Snake is a Bomberman! So is Simon Belmont, Old Man Snake, and few other familiar Konami characters. Super Bomberman R Online is the latest in the Bomberman franchise. It is a free-to-play game, available on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Playstation 4, Stadia, and PC. And it has cross-play so you can play with people across these systems! I checked the game out on the Nintendo Switch and here are my thoughts. Yes Naked Snake is totally my character.…

We still have a few weeks to go but I figured, hey, why not start my crazy E3 predictions!? Today I’ll throw out some never-will-this-happen Nintendo E3 predictions, next week will be Sony, and right before E3 I’ll talk about Microsoft and third parties. Let’s a goooooo! Nintendo has not officially announced their E3 plans yet (unless they do and I have to rewrite this). So I am going to guess their plans… On the Thursday or Friday before E3…