It is no secret that Nintendo has been expanding the range of characters it will allow into its Smash Bros. series of games. When Smash first started, it was all Nintendo owned characters, but over the course of the years, it has allowed such characters as Sonic, Solid Snake, Pac-man, Ryu and more. Its latest character choice shows that Nintendo is not above including characters not seen on Nintendo consoles. Continue reading
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Indie Dev Gives Up Game Development For Career Playing Slots
After spending thousands of hours of sleepless, knuckle-cracking game development work, releasing dozens of mobile game titles and and dealing with an ungrateful audience, an indie game developer has finally given up indie game development work to play the slots. Continue reading
Pokemon Company Sues To End Child’s Birthday Party
Just days after filing suit to end a PAX Prime launch party, the Pokemon Company has continued its legal rampage, this time targeting a child’s 7th birthday party.
According to court filings in US District Court of Wisconsin, the Pokemon Company finds that the child’s hand drawn party invitations feature reproductions of artwork copyrighted by the Pokemon Company. Additionally, the Pokemon Company claims that the home decorated cake the mother made also violates the company’s copyrights. Continue reading
Local Game Store Finds Goldmine In Retro Game Sales
It is no secret that the retro games scene is a lucrative piece of games culture. It is so big that a lot of retailers are taking up retro sales, including Game Stop’s return to classic gaming. We recently caught wind of a new game store opening up and which is hoping to get a piece of the sweet retro pie.
We took a stroll through this store and found games from pretty much every generation of consoles. Everything from the Commodore 64 all the way to the PS4. But what took us by surprise were the prices on those retro games. Continue reading