Digital artist @spdrmnkyxxii seems to consider Christian Bale a good choice for the role of Metal Gear Solid's Liquid Snake, and has proven the point with an extremely convincing image of the actor as the character.
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A combination of those factors has made some Nintendo games worth thousands of dollars for the cartridge alone. A boxed copy with a manual drives prices even higher. However, one game, Stadium Events, is so rare, with only a handful of copies in circulation, that it has become legendary .
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Retro video games are some of the most highly sought-after items in gaming, and that's especially true for Atari 2006 games. But then there's the rarest Atari 2600 game, Air Raid.
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Hades is tough enough to challenge even the most experienced player, but Aid boons from famous Olympians can help Zagreus in his journey out of the underworld. These are the most powerful Aid Boons in Hades.
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Two games immediately come to mind when it comes to late Neo Geo CD titles: Bang Bang Busters and Treasure of the Caribbean.
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In 1995, Atari released its Jaguar CD System as an add-on to its console, the Atari Jaguar — but the project may have been doomed from the beginning.
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The Switch did have some flops -- and some were worse than others. Whether it was a rushed development cycle or just an overall bad experience, these games brought little to the table.
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On Dec. 5, a livestream of a Splatoon 2 tournament, called the North American Open, was unexpectedly canceled the day before its final rounds. Then the hashtags #freemelee and #freesplatoon began to trend on Twitter, both of which catalogued unpopular decisions made by Nintendo.
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Tumblr's 2020 year-end round-up of the platform's most beloved video games, movies, and television shows is here. In a year where people spent months isolated from each other due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it's not entirely surprising to see that games involving connection & nostalgia topped surveys.
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tar Wars has been inspiring games since 1983, when Star Wars: The Arcade Game was released. Since then, the franchise has put out countless new video games through different developers and publishers. But what about those characters that have been forgotten when it comes to Star Wars video games?
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When the Super Nintendo started strong in 1991, Sega was not content to stay in second place.
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During the Wii's reign, Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 were pushing the envelope as to what kind of graphics could be produced on a console. Sadly, the Wii didn't measure up, capping at 480p. But at least it had addictive motion controlled games like Wii Sports and Just Dance.
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In April of 1992, Expert Gamer, a video game magazine, released an article detailing a very specific method to obtaining a character that was not a part of the Pokemon universe. The article allegedly detailed a method to obtain Yoshi, the loveable green dinosaur from Super Mario Bros.
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Nintendo has done some shady things in the past, and such a tradition continues into 2020. As much as the company has frustrated its fans, gamers continue to forgive Nintendo. With so many great games and a constant reimagining of the way people play, it's hard to stay mad at the legendary company.
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Recently, a trailer for the Western release of Persona 5 Scramble hit the internet. Now named Persona 5 Strikers, the trailer shows off all the Persona 5 musou goodness audiences have longingly anticipated since 2019 — including bosses and special moves — but now with English voiceovers.
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Fans have noticed a Star Wars Easter egg where Fortnite's Peely was encased in carbonite, just as Han Solo was in The Empire Strikes Back. Reddit user Urboijeff shared a screenshot of the carbonite, which could be found in one of the rooms inside the new Hunter's Haven house.
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While a fair share titles like Overcooked and Cuphead have earned widespread acclaim for their cooperative gameplay, the list of worthwhile co-op experiences on the Switch doesn't end with the hits. Here are three under-the-radar co-op titles for the Switch well worth checking out.
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Like most consoles, the Game Gear came in different variations via special editions.
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It looks like the Nintendo Switch release of Super Mario Galaxy is the closest thing fans will get to another sequel. That's okay, because it gives everyone a chance to once more see all the Easter eggs that Nintendo put into the original game, including a Pokémon reference.
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A 21-year-old California man has been sentenced to three years in prison by the U.S. District Court in Seattle for hacking into Nintendo servers and leaking confidential information. Ryan Hernandez is expected to pay upwards of $259,000 in damages to Nintendo.
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The Nintendo Switch has been a highly successful console for Nintendo, selling 63 million units worldwide as of Nov. 2020. In traditional fandom fashion, many have taken to making custom Switch consoles themselves, referencing everything from popular memes to blockbuster movie franchises.
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Survival horror continues to be a robust video game genre in 2020. While this year probably didn't see any original horror titles that are going to launch a new franchise, like a Silent Hill or a Resident Evil, it still offered plenty of jump-scares, gore, and disturbing scenes.
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Its arrival on Nintendo's miniature hardware gave it the ability to be compatible with yet another Game Boy multiplayer enabled peripheral. It also holds the distinction of being the only FPS to ever see a release on the Game Boy. The game we're speaking of is the little known Faceball 2000.
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This is no Super Mario Bros., sealed NES copies of which sold for just over $100,000 in 2019 and then $114,000 in 2020. The rarest Game Boy game is Spud's Adventure. Spud's Adventure, as could be expected from a non-iconic title, sells for a price closer to ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut.
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This game was not only the first entry in the Fire Emblem series, but it also never saw store shelves outside of Japan—until this week.
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Usually, console updates feature quality of life improvements that help streamline experiences and add new features. However, companies sometimes sneak in changes that displease a chunk of their audiences, which is the case with the recent Nintendo Switch update.
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Gorons are some of The Legend of Zelda's most popular characters; they've been in every Zelda game in one iteration or another, and you meet many different Gorons throughout the course of the series.
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