Mighty Switch Force has an ‘Ugly Checkpoint Dog’

During a session with some of Nintendo’s first- and third-party 3DS eShop game developers yesterday, I got a chance to check out the (incredibly promising) future of the eShop. I first got some hands-on time with WayForward’sMighty Switch Force, a game about a cyborg warrior girl named Patricia Wagon who saves the world (or Planet Land, anyhow) from the wrath of the Hooligan Sisters with the aid of her trusty “Ugly Checkpoint Dog....

June 15, 2025 · 3 min · 543 words · Willie Flowers

Monday Mind Teasers: Particle Destroyer

Recently onReddit, I discovered quite the artistically pleasing recreation of the oldBreakoutgame. Those of you who are flash code fanatics can dig through all of itslines of code here, but since its code credits are in Japanese, I didn’t know what else to call it other thanBreakout Rainbow Pixel Sex. Thankfully,Brad Ricecameto the rescue and translated the information to reveal thatParticle Destroyercomes from Kayak Inc. Be warned, the first half minute is actually quite boring, but this is just to contrast the eye candy that awaits....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 221 words · Ronnie Callahan

New Razer store invites patrons to ‘stay all day’ and play

And online continues to go brick and mortar Gaming hardware manufacturerRazeris opening an old-fashioned “store,” its first in the United States. It’s located in the nicer of San Francisco’s two malls, downtown’sdowntown’s Westfield Shopping Centreand opens to the public May 21 and 10AM PST. The 1,300 square foot, two-level store will let you test out all of Razer’s stuff and, “more than 20 gaming stations with the latest hardware from Razer and its partners will be available for anyone to use....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 168 words · Kristin Collins

Nintendo notes that amiibo sales aren’t stopping, Animal Crossing Cards are selling gangbusters

Those cards are where I draw the line Over20 million amiibo have been shipped worldwidein this past year. Despite the manufacturing issues and poor communication, Nintendo has done well for itself. The margins are likely far more lucrative for theAnimal Crossing: Happy Home Designercards though, as 8.6 million individual cards have been sold to date — keep in mind that the game just launched at the end of July in Japan, and only in the past month in the west....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 169 words · Brandi Ferguson

Pikmin Bloom codes (November 2024)

Updated: Jun 11, 2025 Added a new code! No, you can’t just keep drowning red Pikmin or electrifying blue Pikmin, you monster. In this game, you get rewarded for staying healthy physically (walking) and mentally (NOT KILLING PIKMIN), and if you need help with either, you can usePikmin Bloomcodes. Pikmin Bloomcodes will grant expedition slots and petals to spread more flowers and collect more nectar. You can also speed up the gathering time certain Pikmin need to collect items....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 255 words · Christian Wright

PlayStation Vue is off to a good start, but it needs a bit more time

Now on Amazon Fire TV “Cut the cord.” You’ve seen the pitch a million times. While it will take a lot more time until all of the Adam Levine-loving,Voice-watching watching baby boomers truly cut enough cords to make online television really take off, many companies are keen to get you to drop your cable service right now. The latest kids on the block this year are Sling TV, and now, Sony with PlayStation Vue, which just hit Amazon Fire TV in addition to the launch platform of the PS4....

June 15, 2025 · 3 min · 547 words · Aaron Cole

Pokemon Go player earns lots of XP in a weekend, triggers anti-cheat measures from Niantic

Lame Even if you don’t followPokemon Go, this is a neat little inspiring story, and an interesting case of game design. Although quite a bit of folks have quitGo, a large fanbase still remains, and among them is an avid player named Jimmy Derocher of Austin, Texas. His goal was to prove people wrong by earning one million experience points (XP) over an entire weekend, something others deemed “impossible” or “cheating....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 224 words · Kimberly Hernandez

Pokemon World Champs to become characters in B&W2

At the Pokémon U.S. National Championships in Indiana this past weekend, over 2000 participants threw down in matches of both the videogame and trading card game variety. Once the dust settled, four videogame players and eight TCG players from each of the three divisions emerged as finalists who will represent America at the World Championships in Hawaii come August. Wanna know the cool part? The Pokémon Company has announced that it will select several World Championships participants to be digitized along with their Pokémon teams intoPokémon Black / White Version 2....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 168 words · Michael Navarro

Preview: NASCAR Unleashed

That changes this fall whenNASCAR Unleashedcrashes its way onto store shelves. NASCAR Unleashed(PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 [Previewed], Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 3DS)Developer:Firebrand GamesPublisher: ActivisionRelease: June 29, 2025 At it’s heartNASCAR Unleashedis about fast fun-filled racing, that encompasses the soul of NASCAR — bumping and rubbing — and the white-knuckle action of turbo boosting and car checking that made theBurnoutseries what it is today. It doesn’t need to get caught up in the semantics of car specs and customization to be a fully enjoyable racer, which is indicative by the games graphics....

June 15, 2025 · 3 min · 486 words · Matthew Wilcox

Rage Xbox 360 may have multiplayer on separate disc

You know those jokes everybody made about Xbox 360 games needing to ship on multiple discs because Blu-ray is ten billion times better than DVDs? Well, it looks like id might finally be the one to make those jokes come true, with talk ofRageneeding a second disc on the 360, a disc which may house the entire multiplayer component. “We’ll probably have two DVDs for sure, and then the question is, will multiplayer be on a separate disc or not?...

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · David Ryan

Sea Fantasy is an Oops! All Fishing RPG for the reel ’em in sickos out there

Did you pop inFinal Fantasy XVonly to hitch your Regalia permanently to Galdin Quay? Did you halt progress inSea of Starsin an effort to filet every single species known to man? If you’re atotal fishing freak, there’s an open-world action-RPG on the way for you calledSea Fantasy. Developed by METASLA,Sea Fantasyis a top-down game with a pixel art aesthetic that promises an “Otherworldly Fishing Open World RPG.” It also says you can “save the world by fishing!...

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 346 words · Vanessa Wade

Season 2 of The Walking Dead hits Vita next week

Informal poll, who plays the series on Vita? It seems like such a late addition platform that, coupled with its small-ish install base, a lot of people who wanted to playThe Walking Deadhave by the time the Vita versions keep coming out. I guess that’s whyThe Walking Dead: The Complete First Seasonis, “now available for Android-based devices viaGoogle Play, NVIDIA Shield viaTegraZone, and Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Kindle HDX viaAmazon....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · William Green

Silly Forza, Australia doesn’t have winter

Neither does Game of Thrones At the end of a long post on the upcoming Alpinestars Car Pack, Turn 10 dropped a hint about a winter–themed expansion pack coming toForza Horizon 3. This makes absolutely no sense with regards to the setting, but should prove to be an entertaining add-on to an already great game. I’m more baffled at how I missed out on the information of there being two season passes....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 182 words · Jose Jones