Revamped classic gets first-run treats Nicalis announced that the excellent remake of Sega Master System classic,Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, will see a physical release on PS4 and Nintendo Switch in a matter of weeks. The retro adventure, which sees Wonder Boy (or Girl) take on multiple anthropomorphic forms on a quest to defeat a deadly dragon, released digitally to fan praise in 2017. The physical edition of the game will launch in a fortnight, with first-run copies containing cool goodies in the form of an instruction book, soundtrack sampler and a PVC dongle of our hero’s first form, Lizard-Man....

Iwata sorry for massive system update Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has apologized toWii Uusers for the system’s undesirable launch issues, specifically addressing the large patch required to access its online features. The big boss has admitted that such features ought to be available from the moment the machine’s turned on. “Personally I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box,”he told IGN....

Tentative excitement for Eternal Crusade Games Workshop isn’t the most discerning of license holders. Ever since the demise of THQ, the company has allowed just about anyone to make a video game based onWarhammer 40,000. The situation has reached the point where Destructoid boss Jordan Devore and I, despite both being massive fans of the property, are having trouble keeping all these games straight and has us yearning for the good old days ofSpace Marineand annualizedDawn of Warexpansions....

Several worlds, technically When procedural generation became a big thing, there were a lot of high hopes about what it could mean for infinitely explorable spaces. Some games do it better than others, but a lot of the time a strange paradox occurs: with everything different in minute ways, everything starts to look the same. Sometimes the only difference is in the aesthetics; this planet has a blue cave and that planet has a red cave....

Fresh details out of Famitsu In aFamitsuinterview aboutPokkén Tournamenttranslated bySiliconera, Bandai Namco’sMasaaki Hoshino told the publication that its Pokémon fighting game is approximately 30 percent complete, with the first playable demo scheduled to arrive sometime next year. We know thatTekkencharacterswon’t be making an appearance, but there “might be some sort of hidden elements that could bring a smile to fans of theTekkenseries.” And Mega Evolutions, as hinted at in the trailer, have been confirmed....

Developer Webzen put on quite a show at E3 with its MMOFPS named after highly esteemed science fiction author Aldous Huxley,Huxley. Don’t fretPlanetsidefans,Huxleyisn’t destined to be a complete failure. Today Webzen just gives us more of a reason to want to engage in wild monkey sex with them game. For solid proof, just check out the video! As a whole, the video is great. The game itself seems very reminiscent ofUnreal Tournament 2004and its style of gameplay....

Take a look at the franchise’s history Fire Emblemis a pretty mysterious series to many gamers out there. Firstly, it’s a strategy RPG (SRPG), which already places it in an established niche. Then you have to consider the fact that Nintendo didn’t release the series in American until theseventhgame,Fire Emblem: The Sword of Flame, simply titledFire Emblemin the US. But with the release of the newest game in the series,Awakening,Fire Emblemhas succeeded in captivating many new fans with the addition of a less intense optional mode of play, and thus, people are going to be looking for more games to satiate this newfound love....

Roleplaying games are dramatic, lengthy affairs in which most players could reasonably expect to lose up to eighty hours of their time.Half-Minute Heroexists to tell you just how much you’re wasting your own precious and fragile life, as it reduces eighty hours of gameplay into a mere thirty seconds of content. The scary part? That thirty seconds of content representseverythingyou do in an RPG. You grind, you do a fetch & carry quest, you buy a sword, you beat a boss, and you watch the credits....

When Sakuraiintroduced Sora inSmash Ultimatefor the first time, all I could think about is the process that led them to this moment of the reveal. Well, we kind of know what happened now thanks to a recentFamitsucolumn (as translated by Nintendo Everything). Sakurai re-iterates that Sora actually won the “Fighter Ballot” contest as the number one choice by fans, and notes that Banj0 & Kazooie were “high up there as well....

Activision is kicking off its Comic Con showing tonight by announcing the final dimension inSpider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. And it’s… the Ultimate universe! (If you hadn’t ready the headline… surprise!) If you’re not familiar withUltimate Spider-Man, it’s Marvel’s retelling of the popular hero’s origins, focusing on a high school-aged Peter Parker. Worried it might be too similar to “Amazing,” a dimension already announced? Don’t worry — this dimension will be rendered entirely in cel-shading, and will wearing the black symbiote costume....

Lift the curse, lift some loot Many a swashbuckler had arip-roaring good time during theSea of ThievesJanuary beta. But, a common complaint is that there wasn’t enough variety to guarantee anextendedgood time. Rare seems set on proving there’s more to the high seas than what we’ve already seen. For instance, here’s this new video that details skull forts. At any random time, a giant plume of smoke in the shape of a skull might cover the sky, which indicates that a skull fort is now active....

One can never truly tell whether a game will become popular, or how it even does so. I imagine it’s the bane of many developers’ professional lives, moving into uncertain territory in a shaky industry that’s prone to fickle trends and hard-to-please masses. However, according to recent experience, it seems you can always make headway in the cutthroat world of gaming by appealing to fruit lovers on Steam. Released in April this year,Bananais one of those things that can come along and just give you brief pause for thought....

This is so great How do you speedrun a MOBA?! Well, I’ll tell you! Amazingly, there is a cottage industry of speedrunners forHeroes of the Storm. Spotted on Reddit, these brave souls apparently go solo, fight no enemies, and attempt to take down the opposing core as quickly as possible. Given that you need to destroy at least one end line structure to get to the core, you can’t just rush it; you have to work your way there as quickly as possible....