News - 2016, Week 32

Sunday14th Aug 2016

Saturday13th Aug 2016

Friday12th Aug 2016

  • Review Metroid Prime: Blast Ball (3DS)

    Dropping the ball

    Ever since its initial announcement, Metroid Prime: Federation Force has been fighting an uphill battle. After a hiatus for the Metroid series, some fans were expecting something a bit more back-to-basics than a co-op shooter with a chibi artstyle set in the Metroid Prime universe. While there's still a week left at the time of...

  • News Fresh Nintendo Patents Reinforce Concept of NX Featuring Detachable Controllers

    Gesture recognition patents also get more details

    It seems that as Nintendo gets closer to revealing the NX more clues surface, and a few freshly released patents - filed in January this year and now visible to the public - appear to reinforce aspects of notable recent reports on the system. NeoGAF poster Disorientator has picked up on these...

  • Review Vektor Wars (Wii U eShop)

    Explosive robot annihilating fun

    When you hear word that a game is retro-inspired, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Pixelated homages to platformers long past? The type of title that takes stalwart mechanics and filters them through decades of proven formulas to make them palatable to today's gamer? Something that straddles the line...

  • News Niantic CEO Talks Sponsorship Deals with Pokémon GO

    More sponsorships means less in app purchases

    Now that Pokémon GO has been out for a bit, conversations are beginning to turn towards whether or not the game will remain relevant in the coming months and years. Though Pokémon GO had an undisputedly successful launch, it's natural that the playerbase will level off in time. Niantic makes plenty of...

  • Review Power Disc Slam (3DS eShop)

    Sluggish slams and dodgy discs

    First, there was Pong, and lo the people deemed it to be worthy. Since then it has been immortalised as a test of skill for two players, two gladiators going head to head and shooting for goals and glory. Next, the early nineties would reveal the natural evolution of this classic challenge - Windjammers. A competition...

  • News SEGA 3D Classics Collection is Heading to Europe on 4th November

    Physical and digital releases

    Earlier in the week SEGA Europe teased the announcement of the region's release date for SEGA 3D Classics Collection, an excellent 3DS title that combines nine (10 with a fun bonus) games from the series. Four of those titles are new to the West, while the remainder have previously had eShop releases. To start with the...

  • News Nordic Games Rebrands With a Touch of THQ and Talks Up Future Projects

    Majority of new games "former THQ owned IPs and franchises"

    Nordic Games has been around for quite a while, and was previously associated with pleasant but rather low-budget games on systems like Wii - long-term Nintendo Life readers will recall multiple We Sing games. Yet when THQ hit hard times Nordic Games was a surprise buyer (along with various...

  • Video Learn More About the Rich History of Shin Megami Tensei

    Even the Virtual Boy gets a mention

    Shin Megami Tensei is a series familiar to DS and 3DS owners that keep a good eye on the output of Atlus, with Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse due in North America on 20th September. With various new entries and remasters / re-releases in recent years, it's an IP that's popped up a lot on these pages. Plenty of...

  • Gallery Get to Know the Cast of River City: Tokyo Rumble

    Get ready to rumble

    In the earlier days of gaming, sidescrolling beat 'em ups were far more common than nowadays, with classics such as Double Dragon and River City Ransom regularly lighting up TV screens. Though this genre has since become fairly niche, it's certainly not dead, as evidenced by the upcoming River City: Tokyo Rumble. We loved what...

  • News US Online Retailers Enjoy a Pokémon Merchandise Sales Spike During GO Craze

    "It feels like the ’90s all over again"

    Since Pokémon GO arrived and went viral in early July plenty of businesses have benefitted. Nintendo saw its shares spike and, despite a drop-off, still settle at a higher point than before the app's release. McDonald's in Japan has seen increased revenues with help from a GO tie-in, and even smaller...

  • News 2016 Pokémon World Championships Only Open to Competitors and Guests

    Extensive online streams available, as always

    The Pokémon World Championships are, naturally, the pinnacle of competitive Pokémon gaming in terms of the current-generation main games, the Pokémon Trading Card Game and now Pokkén Tournament. Often a hugely popular event for the public to attend, too, this year venue limitations seem to have...

  • News YouGov Estimates That Over a Million UK Players of Pokémon GO Have Bought In-App Purchases

    With plenty going beyond a retail game price

    Polls and related data can be inaccurate at times, with multiple recent elections in the UK doing the opposite of what polling suggested would happen - but they can still provide some interesting insight. YouGov has put its data gathering apparatus at work to learn more about Pokémon GO players in the...

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