The next big Wii U RPG still has no release date—other than “2014”—but it continues to look great. Made by Monolith Soft, the studio behind 2012’s Xenoblade Chronicles, X is the big HD robot RPG the Wii U really needs.
Starting in April, Nintendo says they’ll be releasing GBA games on the Wii U’s Virtual Console. They announced the news in a Nintendo Direct today, mentioning names like Metroid Fusion and Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga as some of the GBA games that we’ll be able to buy and download this spring.
For a long time now, Americans have been curious about Inazuma, the crazy-popular soccer-RPG series that has sold by the truckload in Japan and Europe. Today, we finally get to check it out for ourselves. Inazuma Eleven will be released on the 3DS eShop today. Nintendo announced the news at their Nintendo Direct this afternoon.
The final game in Level-5’s Guild[01] project—a series of small games released on the 3DS eShop including Crimson Shroud and Liberation Maiden—is coming to the U.S. next week. Weapon Shop de Omasse, a comedy-rhythm-RPG created by a Japanese actor named Yoshiyuki Hirai, will be out on the 3DS eShop on February 20. Nintendo announced the…
Nintendo just announced Pokémon Battle Trozei for the 3DS eShop. Trailer right here!
Nintendo just announced a sequel to the submarine game Steel Diver—SubWars. It’s a first-person shooter, and it’ll be out on the 3DS eShop tonight.
Welcome to the fray, Little Mac. Punch-Out‘s main character will join the cast of the next Smash Bros., to be out on Wii U and 3DS later this year. Nintendo announced the news during their Nintendo Direct this afternoon. No word on King Hippo or Mike Tyson. Trailer:
There’s a Nintendo Direct at 5pm Eastern. 3DS/Wii U stuff for this spring. You can watch liveright here, or check Kotaku for all the news as it happens.
Are you in the Titanfall beta? Need some tips n’ tricks? Check out this new video by the folks at Respawn, the studio behind the game, for some helpful advice on shooting your way through as many giant robots as possible. (If you haven’t registered for the beta yet, you can right here.)
A Hitman… turn-based strategy game? That’s the tablet/smartphone game that Square Enix just announced. It’s called Hitman GO and you can read more about it right here
364 days ago, Nintendo made the most important proclamation of the 21st century, declaring a year of peace and prosperity. A year of hope. A year of Luigi. That was February 14, 2013. Assuming we’re operating outside of the Gregorian Calendar—because the Mushroom Kingdom follows its own rules—today, my friends, is the final day of…
Bad news for Virtue’s Last Reward fans—director Kotaro Uchikoshi says he hasn’t been able to get a third game greenlit yet, although he’s optimistic it’ll happen one day. He should start a Kickstarter!
You haven’t really seen video game basketball until you’ve seen this Space Jam-themed NBA 2k14 mod by YouTuber MkEliteWorksX There have been Space Jam mods in NBA 2k games before, but this is my favorite yet, mostly because it’s the most realistic depiction of cartoons playing basketball we’ve seen to date. This is the Space…
Time for a new Nintendo Direct—on Thursday at 5pm Eastern, we’ll get to hear about this spring’s slate of Wii U and 3DS games. About time!
The South Park game is actually finished. It’s gone gold. For real. Publisher Ubisoft just announced that South Park: The Stick of Truth will actually be out on March 4, for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Of course, this might still be a practical joke. After all the difficulties and delays, we might want…
We’re a little over two days away from the end of Unsung Story‘s Kickstarter campaign, and it’s still not funded. That’s kind of insane. When I first saw that Final Fantasy Tactics creator Yasumi Matsuno wanted to design a spiritual successor to one of the greatest games ever made, I expected instant success. I thought…
Nas could be making his way to your Xbox soon—Deadline reports that the rapper is working on a 30-minute TV series with Xbox Entertainment Studios. It’ll be called Street Dreams, and set in New York during the 1990s.
Two of EA’s biggest games had rough launches last year, and although SimCity seems to be in a stable place right now, the Battlefield 4 issues (and patches) continue—to the point where EA won’t work on downloadable content for their shooter until everything is fixed Question is, how are they going to handle these sort…
The new, slimmer version of the PlayStation Vita is coming to North America as part of a $200 Borderlands 2 bundle, Sony just announced. It’ll be out this spring. The bundle will come with the new model of Sony’s handheld, the upcoming port of Borderlands 2 (“and add-on content”), and an 8GB memory card. The…
Here’s a new Kickstarter game that might be worth some attention: Blackmore, an adventure game by some of the folks behind the old Konami adventure game, Snatcher. David Hayter’s in there, too. The game is called Blackmore, and they want $200,000 to bring it to life. The summary, via Kickstarter: Blackmore is a Japanese adventure…
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