Retro

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…

Bioware has always created wonderful games. From KOTR to Jade Empire to Mass Effect, their creativity is amazing. And the orignal Mass Effect trilogy is a high point for them. I especially love that first game. Let’s take a look back at Mass Effect. The Mass Effect trilogy will be coming to modern consoles very soon. Like tomorrow soon. So I thought for this weeks More Thoughts that I’d think about the beginning of the trilogy. I was a huge…

Its Dragon Quest’s 35th Anniversary this year! What does Square Enix have in store for the game? Well, we’ll find out later this month! Square will have an Anniversary stream on youtube. For the first time, English viewers will get to understand whats going on too! On May 26th, Square Enix will have a Dragon Quest 35th Anniversary special stream. It will reveal the upcoming lineup for the Dragon Quest series. Usually this kind of stream would be in Japanese…

There are some games from the NES era that we never got in the West. Nintendo has started bringing some of them over like Earthbound Beginnings on the Wii U and the very first Fire Emblem on the Switch. And now Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir and Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind have been translated and will be on the Nintendo Switch soon. Are these games any good? Here is our two-in-one review of the Famicom Detective Club games!

Zombies At My Neighbors is coming to the Nintendo Switch! This Lucasfilm classic game will be released in June with its sequel Ghoul Patrol. Check out the trailer below and then come back for some thoughts on the games. Disney Interactive is bringing two Lucasfilm classic games to the Switch on June 28th. The games are Zombies Ate My Neighbors and its sequel Ghoul Patrol. The two games will be in one download and feature save states (saving anywhere), local…

As we all know by now, Nintendo loves to surprise its fans. Today, out of nowhere, a brand new game that we knew nothing about was announced: Game Builder Garage! This new game will let players build their own games. Check out the trailer below and then come back here for some thoughts on Game Builder Garage for Nintendo Switch. Game Builder Garage isn’t the first game by Nintendo to let players create their own games of course. Warioware DIY,…