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- 2025 GOTY Scoreboard: In Progress
- The Game Awards: All the Winners from 2003 to Today
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- The History Of The Word “Metroidvania” And How It Spread – A Critical Hit (2025)
- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
Most Recent: Switch
Ubisoft adds Star Fox to the Switch version of spaceship-builder Starlink: Battle For Atlas
I’ve been curious about Starlink: Battle For Atlas ever since it was announced at last year’s E3. I love collectibles (I have several Amiibo), so the idea of building your own spaceship as a model seemed like all kinds of fun.
But then one of the characters from the game put out a distress call for help in the E3 2018 Trailer… and a familiar sound replied.
No?
NO?
YES!
Star Fox and his team will join the dog fight in the Switch version of Starlink, and players will get to see the Arwing barrel rolling and blasting like it was born to. It’s not a true Star Fox game, but I don’t really care. For me, this was the biggest surprise of E3, and it means that I can now explore a new galaxy with a familiar friend.
If you’re unfamiliar with Starlink, here’s how Ubisoft tried to explain it:
The modular toys and dynamic combat mechanics in Starlink: Battle For Atlas let players explore multiple ways to achieve objectives and approach any obstacle or enemy, driven by their own imagination and creativity. Alongside the innovative new way to play, Starlink: Battle For Atlas offers open-world gameplay, spanning a full star system that players can explore with total freedom.
Built from the ground up in the Snowdrop engine, the game allows seamless travel through and around the exotic alien worlds of the Atlas Star System, teeming with life and unique challenges across seven different planets. Players’ actions and choices will impact their journey and no two player experiences will be alike. Enemies will react and fight back intelligently – taking over the star system if the player does nothing to stop them. The fate of Atlas rests in your hands.
Starlink: Battle For Atlas will be released for the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One on October 16. Three new trailers for the game (including one featuring Star Fox) can be found after the break. (more…)
Fortnite is now available for the Nintendo Switch
Even though it was leaked a few weeks ago, Nintendo officially announced today, during their Nintendo Direct: E3 2018 presentation, that the global phenomenon known as Fortnite is now available for the Switch.
As you might have guessed the battle royale game is free to download through the Nintendo eShop, and it offers the same 100-player mayhem that it does on other platforms. In fact, Switch owners can even cross-play against Fortnite players on the PC, Mac, Xbox One, and iOS:
Jump in to be the last one standing in the free 100-player Battle Royale. Build huge forts. Outwit your opponents. Earn your Victory. Squad up together online with friends in the same room or around the world!
Features
- Build & Destroy – Shape the battlefield by building your own cover. Opponent hiding behind a wall? Take out their cover to get the edge.
- Gear Up – Board the battle bus and drop in on your favorite zone. Gather resources, collect gear, and battle your opponents!
- Squad Up With Friends – Team up online with your friends around the world or in the same room!
- Weekly Updates & Events – Updates constantly fuel the fun with new gameplay modes, outfits, weapons and items.
The very colorful E3 Trailer has been embedded above.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate includes EVERY character from EVERY Smash Bros. game ever (plus Daisy, Inklings, and Ridley)
Nintendo introduced the world to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate this morning, and they definitely made a huge first impression.
Staring directly into the camera, Director Masahiro Sakurai confirmed that every character from every previous iteration of the series would appear in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. That means Mario, Link, the Ice Climbers, Solid Snake, Little Mac, Pac-Man, Mega Man, Sonic… 65 characters in all. That includes the previously-announced Inklings (which will be available in eight different costumes), as well as Daisy (an “Echo Fighter” for Peach), and Metroid’s Ridley.
Yes, Ridley is going to be in the next Smash Bros. game.
It’s possible that Nintendo may add more characters to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s roster as we get closer to launch, but watching the E3 reveal of the current roster is 25 minutes well spent.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will also include a variety of controller options, including GameCube controllers, Joy-Con controllers, and the Switch Pro Controller. All Amiibo figures from the Super Smash Bros. Series will be compatible with the game, as will any other Amiibo figure of a featured fighter (such as the Splatoon Series of figures).
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be released exclusively for the Nintendo Switch on December 7. And you can find a list of every character set to be included in the game after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Switch
Tagged E3 2018, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Sega and Sumo Digital unveiled E3 Trailer for Team Sonic Racing
After delivering a short Teaser Trailer for Team Sonic Racing a few weeks ago, Sega and Sumo Digital are back with the kart racer’s full E3 Trailer.
Featuring music from Crush 40, the trailer introduces fans to the Wisp Circuit, and the many characters who will be getting behind the wheel (including Sonic himself, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Rouge, and Ray).
Team Sonic Racing will be available for the PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One sometime this Winter.
New Retail Releases: Lego The Incredibles, Super Bomberman R, Yonder, Moss
The 2018 E3 Expo is almost upon us, and once again, game publishers are mostly taking the week off to hobnob down in Los Angeles. But a few brave souls are taking the plunge…
Things come together in an incredible way this week for Lego The Incredibles, which will be released for the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One. Players will be able to relive their favorite moments from the first film, as well as the upcoming The Incredibles 2 in WB Games’s latest Lego-ized adventure.
More supervillains will need to be vanquished in Super Bomberman R, which comes to the PS4 and Xbox One this week after debuting exclusively on the Switch in 2017. The new “Shiny Edition” will include the single-player Story Mode, as well as Battle Mode (offering both local and online play), and a brand new cooperative Grand Prix Mode.
Elsewhere in your local game shop this week, you’ll be able to spot new retail editions of Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, an adventure game for the Switch, and Moss, a PSVR-powered action-adventure.
That’s it for this week’s New Retail Releases… so sit back and enjoy the rest of the E3 Expo!
Posted in News, PS4, Switch, Xbox One
Tagged Lego The Incredibles, Super Bomberman R
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes coming to Switch, Xbox One, PS4 this Summer
Steel Crate Games’s absolutely incredible bomb squad simulator, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, will make its way to the PS4 (without the PlayStation VR requirement), Switch, and Xbox One this Summer.
In Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, one player takes over as the Defuser, and becomes the poor soul who has to sit in front of a bomb as it ticks down to zero. The other players are Experts, and they have to decipher a bomb defusal manual (usually printed on actual paper, but also available on the game’s official website) to discover the correct sequence of button presses to disable the bomb.
— Keep Talking Game (@KeepTalkingGame) June 6, 2018
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a tense and exciting experience, and I’m thrilled that console players will finally get the chance to try it out.
Posted in News, PS4, Switch, Xbox One
Tagged Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, The Banner Saga 2, more coming to Nintendo eShop this week
Bright and colorful battles will make their way to the Nintendo eShop this week…
Leading things off is Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido, a head-to-head puzzler from Nintendo for the 3DS and Switch. In Sushi Striker, players must defeat enemies and bosses by devouring a meal of matching plates and sushi types. If that sounds too wild, Switch owners can also now download BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, a crossover fighter that mashes together characters from Arc System Works’s BlazBlue, Atlus’s Persona, French Bread’s Under Night In-Birth, and Rooster Teeth’s RWBY web series.
For RPG fans, Versus Evil and Stoic will bring The Banner Saga 2 to the Switch this week. And Switch owners who enjoy side-scrolling brawlers will get the chance to try out Saber Interactive’s Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn this week as well.
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the Nintendo eShop (including Iro Hero, Milanoir, Operation Hardcore, and more) after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Switch
Tagged BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, The Banner Saga 2
GalaxyTrail’s Freedom Planet is officially coming to the Switch this Fall
GalaxyTrail originally released Freedom Planet, their homage to Sonic the Hedgehog’s side-scrolling adventures, all the way back in 2014. The game eventually made its way to the Wii U a year later and the PS4 in 2017. And now, XSEED Games has promised it’ll race onto the Switch this Fall:
Freedom Planet is a fast-paced combat-driven platform adventure that pits a spunky dragon girl and her friends against hostile foreign powers and alien attack forces. There’s trouble around every turn, from insects to giant robots to sheer explosive destruction, but players will have a variety of special fighting abilities at their disposal to blast through more than a dozen massive, nonlinear stages. The campaign may be played through as Lilac, Carol, or the unlockable Milla, each of whom has completely unique gameplay mechanics, an altered story mode in which the selected character takes the lead, and even a few of her own unique stages.
GalaxyTrail is also hard at work on Freedom Planet 2, and hopefully we’ll more about the sequel in the coming months. But if you’re heading to next week’s E3 Expo, the Switch version of Freedom Planet will be playable at XSEED’s booth (West Hall, Booth #4700) on the show floor.
Posted in News, Switch
Tagged E3 2018, Freedom Planet