Nintendo’s latest U.S. patent — one that broadly covers the act of summoning a character to fight another in a video game — feels less like a technical innovation and more like a calculated legal play to keep competitors at bay. Patent No. 12,403,397 describes a mechanic so fundamental to RPGs and monster-battling games that…
 Look who’s back in the spotlight again. Yes, it’s our old friend Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, making headlines for the millionth time because someone spotted another rating. This time, Brazil decided to jump on the bandwagon and slap a 14+ rating on this mythical game that we’ve been hearing about since dinosaurs roamed the Earth….
Digimon’s back—and it’s not here to play nice. Time Stranger is the latest entry in the monster-taming RPG series, and based on my hands-on preview, it’s shaping up to be a genre-blending fever dream of underground Tokyo chaos, shimmering digital landscapes, and existential conversations with your pet Leomon. Yes, really. Launching October 3 on PS5,…
On the Nintendo Switch, there are so many great new turn-based strategy games out there right now! Enough to inspire me to write a whole list of them. I’ve put together the top five turn-based strategy games on Nintendo Switch in 2025. These games will keep you busy, and you can stay cozy on the…
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack quietly snuck in a tiny update to its Game Boy Advance app. While most of the service’s attention today was focused on how they added the M-rated Forsaken 64 to the Nintendo 64 collection, Nintendo also slipped in a quality-of-life improvement to the Game Boy Advance app. Unfortunately, we…
Well, this is awkward. The developers behind The Outer Worlds 2 are fully aware of the cosmic joke they’ve found themselves in. Here they are, crafting a game that skewers evil mega-corporations while being owned by… well, one of the biggest mega-corporations on the planet. Microsoft, to be exact. And honestly? They think it’s pretty…
Here we are again, folks – another month, another round of PS Plus games coming and going like that friend who borrows your controller and “forgets” to return it. September 2025 is shaping up to be quite the emotional rollercoaster for PS Plus subscribers, and honestly, I’m not sure my heart can take much more…
If you’re looking for a multi-player online gaming platform, look no further than Roblox! At this point, the game is so popular, if you don’t know someone playing it, you are playing it yourself. And this proved to be true when the platform surpassed 45 million users simultaneously recently. This is far beyond anything the…
Fellow geeks, gather ‘round! If you’ve ever mainlined Katamari Damacy until the theme song was echoing in your head at 3 a.m., you already know: this series is peak weirdness in gaming form. Only in Katamari can you go from scooping up push pins in the first five minutes to force-feeding your sticky ball with…
Countless anime shows of various genres dominated throughout the 1990s. Such titles include Pokémon, Sailor Moon, Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball Z, and Detective Conan. But one series that certainly deserves to be on the list is Yu Yu Hakusho. For those unaware, it’s a martial arts anime where a teenager becomes a Spirit Detective. He…