Toronto-based independent video game studio, DrinkBox Studios, released their new PlayStation Network game today. Guacamelee! is the third title from DrinkBox to be released on Sony’s download service. Previous games in their portfolio include About a Blob for the PlayStation 3 and Mutant Blobs Attack!!! for the PlayStation 3 and Vita. “Guacamelee! is a Mexican-themed [...]
Disney has laid off approximately 150 LucasArts staff and cancelled Star Wars 1313 and Star Wars: First Assault, Kotaku reports. “After evaluating our position in the games market, we’ve decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company’s risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games,” says [...]
One could easily make the mistake that Fire Emblem Awakening is a game about war. Nobody would blame them for making that assumption. After all, the player leads an army against enemy forces on a campaign across the continents. At your disposal are knights, archers, and mages. But Fire Emblem Awakening is not a game [...]
Atari, one of the oldest names in video games, announced its intention to file for bankruptcy on Monday. Atari’s financial woes have been no secret for the past decade, although the US branch of the company has seen profits the last two years. Due to the company’s refocus on digital and mobile platforms, rather than [...]
Super Mario is in a pretty tough spot these days. New Super Mario Bros.(NSMB) Has gotten its share of criticism for a lack of innovative design. Enter Paper Mario: Sticker Star. While the first two Paper Mario games on the Nintendo 64 and GameCube consoles were largely turn-based role-playing games with the normal trappings such [...]
The Nintendo Wii U is nearly upon us, to celebrate Word of the Nerd Online is taking a look back at the road to the Wii U in a Nintendo hardware retrospective. In case you missed the first two episodes, click here to bone up on the history of Nintendo’s first two consoles and here [...]
Nintendo’s Wii U is only days away from kicking off the next generation of high definition consoles, so to celebrate, Word of the Nerd Online is taking a look back on Nintendo’s history with a Nintendo hardware retrospective. In case you missed part one, click here to catch up on the history of the Nintendo [...]
On paper, the Nintendo Wii U is against impossible odds. Asking players to pay over $300 for a machine that does not appear to be significantly more powerful than what Sony and Microsoft has offered for six years with a smaller library of games, many of which are already available on competing machines. On paper [...]
Ten years is a long time for a video game machine. There are not a lot of tech devices or hardware that go more than a year or two without some kind of substantial upgrade – look at the iPhone with its near annual revisions. Technology changes at breakneck speeds so when Sony says they [...]
Trademark renewal is part of everyday business for big video game companies, so news that Microsoft was renewing the Killer Instinct trademark could have meant nothing, however Microsoft addressing it directly may hint at bigger things. Killer Instinct was a popular arcade fighting game from the ‘90’s with outlandish characters like skeletal warriors, werewolves and [...]
Nintendo promised a live stream today to prove the potential of the Wii U, what they presented highlighted Nintendo’s dedication to stronger online connectivity, more modern features and that you cannot count on E3 for the biggest Nintendo news. Opening with a bang, Nintendo addressed the questions on everybody’s lips; when and how much? As [...]
Nintendo has announced today that the Nintendo Wii U will be available in North America this holiday season in two difference models. Nintendo made the announcement this morning on a live streamed press conference. The Nintendo Wii U will be available across North America on November 18, weeks ahead of their Japanese release of December [...]
A follow-up to the surprise DS cult hit, the World Ends With You, may be just around the corner, according to a teaser site opened by Square-Enix. Tetsuya Nomura, co-creator of the World Ends With You, has been hinting at the possibility of a sequel for months. When characters from The World Ends With You [...]
Sony’s PS Vita has had a hard few months. Like the Nintendo 3DS before it, software releases on the hardware have been slow, with great software like Gravity Rush and Sound Shapes trickling out over the course of many months. Also like the 3DS, it raises questions about the long-term viability of dedicated portable gaming [...]
Could Ubisoft be planning another Prince of Persia reboot? An allegedly leaked image of the supposed game suggests they are. An image popped up on the official Prince of Persia forums with little details of its origin, so the legitimacy of the screen shot is impossible to verify. The only indication that it is a [...]
Square-Enix has announced plans for a “Final Fantasy XIII related announcement” on September 1, during the Final Fantasy 25th anniversary event in Shibuya. The new announcement will be part of the “Final Fantasy XIII Lightning Saga: New Developments presentation” during the anniversary event. It is as of yet unclear if this announcement will be a [...]
The Walking Dead has been thrilling comic fans and TV zombie buffs for almost nine years, but video game enthusiasts will soon have two new games to sink their teeth into, both taking different approaches to the monster franchise. TellTale Games has been very successful in creating their episodic Walking Dead comic book side story, [...]
Nintendo gave the 3DS a whole hour-long presentation during E3 in the first week of June, but apparently they were holding back the most exciting news for their Nintendo Direct press conference last Friday. Nintendo played it safe during E3 week with the Nintendo 3DS announcements. In fact they didn’t make any new announcements at [...]
Smartphone and tablet devices have really taken off in the past five years. Going from near obscurity to mainstream way of life in a very short period of time. It is not uncommon to see a half-dozen people or more with their nose in a Smartphone where they used to be in a newspaper or [...]
Over the weekend Nintendo gave a sneak peek into what we can expect later this year from the WiiU with its latest Nintendo Direct video, outlining some console functions and features. Nintendo will apparently focus on their new WiiU console at their E3 presentation tomorrow. The WiiU is Nintendo’s next-generation follow up to the Wii, [...]
