Tag Archives: SNES

GTA 5 had a very good first day–you could say the folks at Rockstar Games had 800,000,000 little reasons to be super happy. Which got us thinking: Say Rockstar’s head honcho Sam Houser showed up at your door and said he was feeling generous. “Here, have all our day-one earnings, …

Can’t hardly wait Weve marked our calendars. Weve devoured the screenshots and deconstructed each and every trailer that we could get our greedy hands on. Weve meticulously combed through the rumors to collect as much information about Grand Theft Auto V as we possibly could, but nothing seems to satisfy …

Don’t cry We’ve given you a complete history of failed consoles, lovingly suffocating you with info on almost 60 mediocre machines in the process. And while well all be better off never mentioning the Casio Loopy or Action Max again, we just had the nagging feeling that some of the …

Sony Santa Monica is working on something “freaking huge,” and God of War II director and writer Cory Barlog is coming back to the studio to head it up. “What am I working on, you ask? Good question,” Barlog wrote on the PlayStation Blog. “Sadly, I cannot tell you… yet. …

Gotta spend money to make money One of the biggest complaints from game publishers this generation has been the rising cost of development. Its all too easy to spend tens of millions of dollars on AAA games, leading to the crazy scenario of a release being deemed below sales expectations …

Sega Sammy is bidding on the financially troubled parent company of Atlus. Bloomberg Japan (via VentureBeat) reports that the house of Sonic is pursuing Index Corp., which among other operations owns Persona and Shin Megami Tensei developer/publisher Atlus. Index Corp. was opened for bids after entering civil rehabilitation, the Japanese …

There aren’t many reviews or previews to talk about, so we focus on the things that matter: overpowered weapons. Also, the movie Surf Ninjas. That’s not all, though–we’re also saying goodbye… to a friend. Also, don’t forget to join us in this month’s Game Club as we tackle Tim Schafer’s …

Activision Blizzard has bought itself back from financially troubled majority owner Vivendi. The publisher today announced that it and an investor group led by CEO Bobby Kotick purchased more than 600 million shares back from the French media conglomerate for $8.2 billion. Now an independent company with most of its …

Priceless (or just extremely expensive) Limited edition consoles are some of the most manipulative products imaginable. They have been known to inspire sin within us–the envy of those who have what we do not, the avarice of obtaining such a pricey item, the vain pride of showing it off to …

July 1st is Canada Day! Canadians are a fun a bunch. They like to talk about hockey, ice fishing, and plaid. Plus, they love to stuff their mouths full of beaver tails and poutine. Those wacky Canadians sure love to enjoy hot cups of cocoa from Tim Hortons, as they …