Amazon hints at an upcoming Nintendo Direct, Microsoft stops selling its Kinect adapter, and I revisit my game industry predictions from 2017!
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Games in Time – Nintendo Cleans Up at The Game Awards
Winners at The Game Awards, world premieres at the industry’s award show, and PlayStation Experience 2017 highlights!
Continue readingGames in Time – Hoenn Comes to Pokémon GO
Hoenn comes to Pokémon GO, a new Portal game, and Nintendo classics on Nvidia Shield!
Continue readingGames in Time – Mega Man Is BACK
Mega Man makes his grand 30th anniversary return, Life Is Strange gets its original voice actors back, and five predictions for announcements made at The Game Awards!
Continue readingThe PowerSwitch – How to Improve the Nintendo World Championships – Episode 39
Five ways to improve the Nintendo World Championships, AAA console games start to show the worst of lootboxes and microtransactions, PlayStation VR gets a model update, playing Metroid: Samus Returns, the month in game releases for October 2017, and more!
Continue readingThe PowerSwitch – The Fight for Battle Royale with Max Roberts – Episode 38
Max Roberts from Model Citizens Media joins the show to discuss the feud between PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite Battle Royale, PlayStation’s TGS 2017, Apple’s securing of Sky as an exclusive, Bruce Straley’s departure from Naughty Dog, Nintendo Switch’s lucky charm featuring Satoru Iwata, and more!
Continue readingThe PowerSwitch – Grading the Nintendo Direct for Fall 2017
Switch and 3DS games for Fall 2017 are highlighted in a new Nintendo Direct, Bethesda shows a strong commitment to Nintendo, Super Mario Odyssey has another strong showing, Project Octopath Traveler returns from the reveal event, and more!
Continue readingThe PowerSwitch – Game Skill VS Game Critique – Episode 37
Dean Takahashi’s play session of Cuphead raises questions about a journalist’s required game skill, Campo Santo brings DMCA into the Pewdiepie racial slur controversy, recapping the Nindie Showcase for Summer 2017, PlayStation Plus free games for September 2017, and more!
Continue readingThe PowerSwitch – The State of the Xbox One – Episode 36
The state of the Xbox One following Gamescom 2017, SNES Classic preorders go live overnight, Polygon’s piece on crunch spurs industry discussion, Gamestop explores a used games subscription program, Xbox Live Gold games for September 2017, and more!
Continue readingThe PowerSwitch – The Hellblade Permadeath Perils with Matt Zawodniak – Episode 35
Matt Zawodniak joins the show to discuss the question of permadeath’s existence in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice raises concerns about creativity in games, Middle-earth: Shadow of War adds microtransactions, No Man’s Sky publishes a massive update one year after launch, and more!
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