Pac-Man Museum+ Review
For those unlucky readers that have followed me for the past 14 years on this site, you know that I’m a huge retro nerd. I play every old game released, remixed, and re-issued from the 80s, just so I can get my arcade kicks on whenever I feel like it. Just last week, I played a bevy of old retro games that included Konami’s Track & Field, the entire Capcom Arcade Stadium collection, and ...[Read More]
BANDAI NAMCO: Little Nightmares II Launch Trailer Serves as Prelude to Game’s Debut on February 11
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. has released the Launch trailer for the macabre adventure game, Little Nightmares II. Coming February 11th, 2021. To celebrate the forthcoming release, the launch trailer showcases the dark corridors, frightening faceless figures, and malevolent monstrosities that will terrify players as they play and haunt their dreams as they sleep. These and other unspeak...[Read More]
Namco Museum Archives Volume 1 / Volume 2
I’m old. I like old games. For years, stretching all the way back to the birth of the PlayStation in 1995, I have been forever addicted to Namco Museum games. They harken back to a simpler time, where video game development budgets didn’t balloon in the millions, and when smoke-filled arcades were where parents dropped you off to go shopping still existed. Maybe that last part was just me, but I w...[Read More]
R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 20th Anniversary Retrospective
It’s 6:30am on July 15th 1999. The Real Racing Roots ’99 Grand Prix, an eight race tournament, has made its fourth stop at a Yokohama course, Out Of Blue. The dawn sky is overcast with cloudy lavender and muted blue while gentle piano keys and daydream synthesizers compose the accompanying Lucid Rhythms audio track. Seaside shipping lanes sit idle, birds of prey circle the mountaintops...[Read More]
PAC-MAN and Sonic teaming up for mobile
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. and SEGA Networks, Inc. have announced that the legendary video game heroes PAC-MAN and Sonic the Hedgehog will be featured in each other’s games, with PAC-MAN and Ms. PAC-MAN joining Sonic Dash, while everyone’s favorite hedgehog speeds into PAC-MAN on iOS and Android. To celebrate Sonic Dash’s five year anniversary, the two mobile apps will feature each vi...[Read More]
Dragon Ball FighterZ Review
The most astounding aspect of the Dragon Ball franchise in terms of gaming is how fresh and relevant each new game has felt, even after rehashing many of the same plot tropes the series has seen over the past 30+ years. Sure, some entries have been better than others, and some have even become cult classics (looking at you Budokai 3); but the biggest judgement facing any entry is the quality of it...[Read More]
Namco Museum Review
I’m an enormous old school arcade fan. Having been born in 1976 and raised in the 80s by a nerdy father and mother, whom trusted arcades as babysitters, anytime Namco comes out with their museum collection I’m always game (pun intended). On top of this, I teach a video game history course at the University of Kentucky (it’s a real course at a real university) and it just adds more fuel to the teac...[Read More]