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Nintendo is about to amp up Earthbound and Mother-related content this year, official Mother socials confirm. Image: Hobonichi Mother Project / SHIGESATO ITOI/ Nintendo Anyone who grew up in the golden age of Nintendo knows about Earthbound. Earthbound, known as the Mother franchise in Japan, has had a cult following for 30 years as of 2024. So, the official Mother social media account announced that they’re planning to celebrate.

Does the dog die in Arizona Sunshine 2? I'll never tell! Image: Vertigo Games / Arizona Sunshine 2 Arizona Sunshine 2 Developer: Vertigo Games Publisher: Vertigo Games Release Date: 12/5/2023 Arizona Sunshine 2 is a fun, yet expensive game that really captures the joys of doggos and excitement of shooting zombies. Buddy is awesome. Shooting and loading guns is, well, a blast. Melee weapons!!! The serious moments peppered in and the big plot twist. Just about everything with audio.

Insert surprised Kirk (but as Astarion) gif here. Seriously, who’s surprised that GameCrate would choose Baldur’s Gate 3 as our Game of the Year pick? We gave it a perfect 10 when it came out. It won a ton of awards at The Game Awards this year (and was nominated for even more). But, what made Baldur’s Gate 3 so great?

Rockman Pinball? You have my attention. Remember what cell phone games were like before smartphones? Probably not, save for the occasional classic game ports like Snake or Tetris. Some of the sickos out there, myself included, had some deeper cuts and weirder software featuring modern and classic gaming icons in our collections. Capcom was a huge part of the feature phone market alongside Square Enix, and that meant a variety of Mega Man-themed games were made.

FNAF has opened up the floodgates of mascot horror games getting movies. Mascot horror comes in a lot of forms. Most people think of games like Five Nights at Freddy’s or Garten of Banban. But, the genre is a lot broader than just costumed animatronics and monsters. Bendy and the Ink Machine, for instance, takes the genre in an entirely separate direction with its various popular characters.

It’s a Christmas miracle! Analogue Pockets can change screen colors now. Over the long holiday weekend, Analogue, the folks that bring some of the coolest, most colorful, retro-focused consoles, updated their Analogue Pocket consoles to firmware version 2.0. With it comes some really cool new features and capabilities going forward.

Scanlines and resolution options were a big omission, especially for the PS1 game. When Konami released the first volume of its Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection, it had some problems. It could have been much worse of course, and the fixes from previous re-releases and new historical bonus content were a big plus. But games like the first Metal Gear Solid for the original PlayStation were missing some arguably crucial features.

War never changes, but Fallout 76 has gotten better year after year. Image: Fallout 76 / Bethesda Bethesda announced on their blog this week that Fallout 76 is getting bigger in multiple ways. Not only are they expanding the game more with their upcoming roadmap for 2024, but they announced that the once barren wasteland has had over 17 million players at this point. The newest addition brought players to Atlantic City with the Atlantic City - Boardwalk Paradise update.

Some post-DLC DLC Pokemon content, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Epilogue, is on the way to wrap things up neatly. Image: The Pokémon Company Last week, what was assumed to be the final piece of post-launch content was launched for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. But today, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company had a little surprise for the fans and non-dataminers. A new DLC was announced, a sort of final piece of the story that does require the current DLC to experience.