The road to SimCity's SNES port began with a 1989 meeting so vividly of its time that it almost sounds like it was invented for one of those recent period dramas about a product's origins, like Air or BlackBerry.
Splatoon The First was supposed to have fizzled out when Nintendo shut down online servers for both the 3DS and Wii U over two months ago. Things didn't shake out so simply, though, as one dedicated player defied the Big N and managed to…
You need hindsight to track evolution. In biology, it's all about poring over fossil records and DNA analysis to discover how yesterday’s T-rex became today’s chicken. In gaming, it means revisiting now-defunct platforms in search of…
Yes, yes - we know Nintendo Switch is old now. There comes a time in each console's life when the games start to dry up and we look to the future — and the Switch is very much in the autumn of its years. Back in May, two months into its…
A nervous woman with a large bust size was stopped at an airport in China after officials grew suspicious. They inspected her and discovered she was allegedly trying to smuggle 350 Nintendo Switch carts out of the country by stuffing them…
'Nikoderiko' is a new platformer that blends all the best platforming tropes into one package, with a clever twist that makes it feel like two games in one.
Few games generated as much joy in the room of their Summer Game Fest demos as Astro Bot, the latest from Astro's Playroom and Astro Bot: Rescue Mission developer Team Asobi. During my three quarters of an hour or so with Astro Bot I just…
There's still nothing else quite like 'Cadence of Hyrule,' a rhythm game spinoff of Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series from the studio behind 'Crypt of the NecroDancer.'