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Arcade1Up‘s highly-anticipated The Simpsons arcade machine is transporting fans back to the early ’90s. The Simpsons arcade machine is releasing on the 30th anniversary of the game’s first entry into the market and is bringing one of television’s favorite families right to fans at home. With the new retro gaming entertainment, players can envision themselves as Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa. The home arcade machine comes with two games in one, including the original The Simpsons Arcade Game and a bonus game set to be announced later this summer. The game also allows up to four players simultaneously and features authentic retro digital work that stays true to the original arcade machine. The Simpsons arcade machine is now officially available for pre-order on Arcade1Up and through select ret...

Activision has officially announced Call of Duty: Vanguard, the next title to land in the popular first-person shooter video game franchise, with a new trailer on Monday. The debut visual opens with footage surveying the demolition of several World War II battles. The video cuts between an empty sniper’s nest, a desert battlefield, a German forest and a disheveled beach, showcasing the various maps present in the new game. Each location hints at characters that will be apart of the game with faces appearing in different parts of each landscape. The trailer suggests that Vanguard will encompass all four theaters of World War II: the European Theater, Eastern Front, Mediterranean/North Africa and the Pacific Theater. Though little is currently known about the gameplay, players will rece...

Nostalgic gamers and Pokémon fans can now mark their calendars as Nintendo has just announced the official reveal date for the gen four remakes of Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl for the Switch. We already have an idea of what these 14-year-old games will look like in their updated form, as well as the official release date for the games, but up until a few days ago, there was no indication on when Nintendo would be holding an official press release for the announcement of the games. Now, unveiled over Twitter, The Pokémon Company has officially revealed that on August 18, 6 a.m. PDT, official news regarding Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, and Legends: Arceus will be released. Eager fans can tune in to all the excitement via Pokémon’s YouTube channel. ‼️Attentio...

For the first time in more than three decades, Nintendo has swept the Top 30 video games charts in Japan, completely dominating the list with Switch titles. Standing among the top of Famitsu’s weekly list are Switch versions of familiar names like Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Super Mario Maker 2 and even an adventure game based on the cult classic Japanese cartoon Crayon Shin-Chan. The last time all 30 games were occupied by the same platform and company was back in 1988, when Nintendo’s Famicom (the Japanese version of NES) reigned over the charts. “It wasn’t that unusual during the early 1990s for the Top 30 to be a combination of Famicom, Super Famicom and Game Boy games, but never just one,” tweeted the Game Data Library, a platform tracking Japanese vi...

After creating new content for Team Fortress 2 when Steam decided to stop supporting the game, Amper Software is now back again, porting the original 2007 cult classic over to a whole new engine. The original game launched almost a decade and a half ago utilizing Valve‘s Source engine, but the system is unsurprisingly showing signs of age and so Amper decided t0 rebuild the title on the yet-to-be-released Source 2 engine, promising enhanced visuals paired with much better performance. “Migrating to a completely new engine means redoing everything from scratch,” the project’s lead programmer Daniel Basiuc-Brinzei told Kotaku. “Redoing everything from scratch, in our case, means redesigning the aforementioned poor decisions in a more optimized way. Which, in general means drastically improve...

Almost a year after its initial release on PC and the Nintendo Switch, Supergiant Games‘ award-winning roguelite title Hades has finally arrived on both PlayStation and Xbox. Supported by both previous-gen and next-gen consoles, Hades dropped for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on August 13. As you’d expected, the dungeon crawler will run at 60 frames per second at 1080p on both previous-gen consoles, with resolutions elevated to 4K at the same framerate for the next-gen models. Unfortunately, for those who already have it on PC or the Switch, the save files won’t be able to transfer over to the new platforms, but Supergiant is making up for that with physical editions of the game, which also come with a download code for the game’s soundtrack as well as...

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Pokémon YouTuber Bird Keeper Toby has garnered quite a name for himself as a Shiny Pokémon TCG fan and possibly the biggest collector yet. Already a Pokémon avid collector, he thought he would try pursuing one of every monster color variant in existence. Through many years of searching, he is now down to one last card to complete his collection, but it will set him back as much as $30,000 USD. Shinies were first introduced digitally in Pokémon Gold and Silver offering even rare characters for players to catch. These specific versions have various unique color editions and 1/8000 chance of ever showing up. Aside from its digital existence, the physical trading card game has seen collectors try their best to chase after the rarest and most expensive Shiny Pokémon. Bird Keeper Toby took to In...

Over in Japan, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable games resold by collectors have seen a major spike in price recently. As per an article on Livedoor News, the jump in pricing is due to the perception of the two software games being considered as retro items despite both handhelds being released back in 2004. Particular third-party games have been marked with a higher value for resale, while games straight from Nintendo and Sony aren’t as competitive due to a large release of first-party hits. “Gal” games which allow players to interact with pretty girls as well as those with titles that are hard to come by due to initial lack of interest and production have been recently sought after by collectors as well as games that are Japanese text-heavy and created for the local market. Kouenji Jo...