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So Nintendo finally had their first full fat Direct since… crikey, 2019? Has it really been that long? In fairness, they don’t really market their games in the same way that Sony or Microsoft do. No pomp and circumstance here. Big releases tend to get dropped out of nowhere, while their presentations tend to focus…
CD Projekt Red keeps proving to be the gift that keeps on giving. The company’s hard fall from grace has been well documented following the rather disastrous release of Cyberpunk 2077. A game which ran poorly on 8th gen consoles despite promises to the contrary, which angered fans and and provoked investigation by the Polish…
Sony is beginning to wind down availability of the PS4 in Japan by discontinuing all but one model. Only the PS4 Slim will remain available for sale, while all other models have been discontinued as of January 5th of this year. Despite being a stellar success globally, the console has not fared as well in…
The PlayStation brand is not doing so hot in it’s native Japan, and that has analysts worried. According to sales data compiled by Famitsu, the PS5 only sold 240,000 units during its first six weeks on the marker. The worst launch of any PlayStation console in the region. Ace Economic Research Institute analyst Hideki Yasuda…
Nintendo has de-listed 250 games from the North American DSiWare shop, without warning customers first. Games that received the axe include Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, Zenonia, Mr. Driller, and Dr. Mario Express. Several games seem to have been removed from the Japanese eShop as well, though it appears that Europe has been spared for the time…
I have a lot of fond memories of the Sega Genesis. It was my first console, and sparked my love of video games that continues to this day. However, I only ended up getting one fairly late in its lifespan. By the Christmas of 1993, it had already been on the market for five years….
Top Hat Games is fighting back after social justice activists demanded that Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story be censored over its suggestive themes. The game itself has been characterized as a mix of Cantonese folklore set against a cyberpunk background. A young woman, Mei-Lin Mak, is dragged into a supernatural horror, and begins to question…
Deck the halls with great games. We’ve faced a great many challenges this year. Despite a pair of colossal stinkers, 2020 actually ended up being a curiously strong year for gaming overall. It took a long time to really nail down which games met our best of the best. There’s just so many to chose…
Sony has pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store, in a rare move by the console maker. All mention of the game has been completely scrubbed from both the store itself and the PlayStation website. We have confirmed this to be the case for both the US and Canadian regions. If you manually search for…
So Cyberpunk 2077 came out last week, and the launch on 8th gen consoles was a bit of a disaster to put it mildly. I’ve already written a couple pieces on that, so you can read those if you so fancy. What I want to address here though is the reaction from the community. Or…