Some players scoff at arcade rail shooters. The games generally take less than a half hour to plow through and contain some rather simplistic gameplay: insert money, point gun at enemy horde, blow enemies’ heads off, run out of life, rinse, repeat. But that simplicity – and the adrenaline...

Nintendo is once again taking one step forward and two steps back. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata just announced plans to offer full copies of first-party retail software for sale on both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShop, beginning with future 3DS smash hit New Super Mario Bros. 2.  The downside? ...

Nintendo’s video conference this week had a few new bits of information usually reserved for larger venues.  One of the most significant bits of news involves the return of a certain mustachioed Italian plumber.  New Super Mario Bros. 2, the next side-scrolling title in Nintendo’s flagship...

In what will be good news to Ambassador Program participants and those hooked to the Nintendo 3DS eShop, users are now able to organize their programs more efficiently using Folders.  The feature was recently added to the Nintendo 3DS firmware in an update scheduled to go live today.  Folders can hold up...

Kratos fans rejoice!  Sony’s PlayStation Blog just pulled the cover off of Santa Monica Studios’ latest project, with a somewhat surprising twist.  Though the game in question is part of the God of War franchise as expected, it is not God of War 4.  Instead, the team at Santa Monica Studios...

It appears Nintendo learned a bit from last year’s tepid 3DS launch, and is planning on rolling out the big guns at this year’s E3 conference to re-introduce its psuedo-next-gen console, the Wii U.  According to a public statement issued from Nintendo following a Miyamoto interview with...

Surprise!  That new Street Fighter x Tekken Vita trailer revealed at Captivate did indeed provide a bit of good news for gamers.  The news should especially interest fighting fans feeling scorned from the inclusion of 12 locked-on-disc DLC characters in the console versions of Street Fighter x Tekken. ...

Another piece of news coming out of Captivate 2012 last week is the announcement of a new entry in the Lost Planet franchise.  The announcement trailer – which did not contain any actual gameplay footage – sold the game as a return-to-form for the series, replacing the jungle environments of...

The embargo for Capcom’s Captivate 2012 conference just ended a few minutes ago, and the most significant pieces of news announced at the event are related to a game that was already announced: Resident Evil 6.  A brand new trailer (which confirmed the inclusion of Sherry Birkin as a playable...

After years of begging, pleading, and overrunning the Facebook page of Namco Bandai, the “White Wishes” of Tales fans have finally come true.   But what about the rest of us?  Does Tales of Graces f deliver the goods to entertain JRPG fence-sitters, or even those that have given up on the...