The recent announcement of Pokkén Tournament caught many by surprise. Not only because it was a serious Pokémon fighting game, made in part by the producers of Tekken and Soul Calibur but that the game was coming out to Japanese arcades first. Cue many fans shouting about this decision, complaining that…

In a stream by Famitsu earlier today, the long rumoured collaboration between The Pokémon Company and Bandai Namco Games has been officially revealed to be POKKÉN TOURNAMENT, an arcade fighting game very similar to the Tekken series. We know that Katsuhiro Harada and Masaaki Hoshino, the lead producers of Tekken…

Continuing the Super Smash Bros. eShop sale that launched last week, Nintendo have revealed their next batch of deals. This weeks sales will run from today until August 28th, and will feature the Veteran Fighters of the Super Smash Bros. series. Somewhat disappointingly, no Zelda games have made the cut,…

With The Last of Us Remastered coming out and garnering lots of praise for being a good remaster, and with many games getting 'definitive versions' for this generation, let’s look at some do’s and don’ts when it comes to remastering, porting and remaking games for a new generation. DO: Make…

Some games look cute and cuddly on the outside. They masquerade their true identities with bright colours, cartoony characters and a 3+ PEGI rating. In actual fact, these games are incredibly dark, containing themes of that would be more suited to an 18 rated game. Let me reveal to you,…

Oh Vita, I want you to do well. You’re a fun little system, with some really interesting games and the potential for a load more, but it seems that Sony doesn’t want to do much with you. Sony’s E3 press conference was incredibly sparse for Vita announcements or news, besides…

With the other two console companies having had their press event, it's time for Nintendo to show what it has got with their Digital Event. Let's see the Nintendo E3 Field Report: Good: Games, Games and Games Like Microsoft, Nintendo's Digital Event was all about the games. We got Zelda,…

In the eighth generation race, it is sad to say that Nintendo's Wii U console is definitely in last place, with only seven million units sold worldwide. While this number has increased significantly with the recent release of Mario Kart 8, the way of the modern games industry will slowly…

If you found yourself standing in front of a mysterious coffin with strange symbols on the front, would you decide to walk into it? Well that’s exactly what Lady Chou Chou, the ultimate god and conqueror of the seven worlds, decides to do. Needless to say, it doesn't end well,…

Spike Chunsoft may be a relatively new company in the grand scheme of the video games industry, but they have definitely made their mark with games such as Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates of Infinity and Danganronpa. Now they decided to hand back the portable monsters and masochistic teddy bears, and…