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Nintendo Direct September 2021 Round Up
Nintendo’s annual September Direct finished airing a short time ago. The 40-minute presentation was packed with upcoming Nintendo Switch announcements. From new details on known titles, announcements of announcements, DLC expansions, and new game releases. This is everything from the Nintendo Direct September 2021 announcements.
EON Super 64 brings Simple HDMI Upscaling to N64
From the same team that created an HDMI adapter for the Nintendo Gamecube, Eon have set their sites on bringing back the N64 into living rooms in a simple, effective way. Their Super 64 adapter is a simple plug-in device that slots into the AV Out of the retro system, adding an HDMI port and a button that enables a smoothing filter.
Turok Dinosaur Hunter (Switch) Review
Long before Goldeneye dominated our lives on the Nintendo 64, we had Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Acclaim and Iguana Entertainment’s surprisingly stacked first-person shooter. Featuring a massive open-world environment and lots of action to partake in, Turok was a game changer at the time. This excitement led into the following sequel Turok 2: Seeds of Evil. Past that though, Turok began to wear out it...[Read More]
40 Winks Funded on Kickstarter
The game 40 Winks, which was cancelled in 1998, is now set to be released by Piko Interactive LLC. This has been made possible due to the incredible fact that it met its funding on Kickstarter in a mere ten hours time. As of now, the game has overstepped its goal of 20,000 dollars by another 74,000. On top of that, this will be the first game released since the N64 console was discontinued. This g...[Read More]
The Two Moments That Brought Me Into Gaming. What Are Yours?
Recently was my birthday. Having just turned 29, I began thinking of a piece to write that looks back and honors my history in gaming. My thoughts first went to figuring out why I love games so much, and it became quite clear as to what I wanted to write about. I wanted to go back to the beginning and reflect on the first two real moments and games that started me down a road I still walk today. T...[Read More]
Nintendo 64 Disk Drive Prototype Found
Retro gamers are rejoicing all over right now at the sheer possibility of what was recently found by youtuber MetalJesusRocks; he has found a unique N64 Disk Drive. The Nintendo Disk Drive was a planned expansion to the N64, basically pushing the boundaries of what the N64 could do to compete with the power of the Playstation. In the early 2000s, sites reported fervently on the next big thing, eve...[Read More]
The Philosophical Question of the PSN Outage
Is online connectivity really all it’s cracked up to be? In the wake of Sony completely losing their online service for over a week, I just have to ask one potentially-obvious-but-maybe-not question: Do we as gamers really need online? In this modern era of gaming where so much is convenient and instantaneous, is online service a necessity, the future of gaming, a perk that we take for grant...[Read More]
The New Multiplayer Trailer for Conduit 2 is Awesome
Oh SEGA, how we love thee! To end the week on a sweet, sweet note, a new multiplayer trailer for Conduit 2 was released today and it’s ridiculously awesome.
Nintendo E3 Press Conference News & Details
The Nintendo E3 Press Conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean the excitement has waned. From the get go, Nintendo blew us away. Reggie Fils-Amie came out to debut a new Zelda game, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and it got fans really excited. We were originally led to believe that a man named Bill would be the one doing the live demo, since Shigeru Miyamoto, a mad genius, seemed like...[Read More]