From Guitar Hero to Synth Rider?

If you're craving the days of traditional rhythm action games such as guitar hero you might want to keep an eye out for Synth Riders: Overdrive, announced today to be coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year. As a Synth Rider you ride on rails using hoverboards and the like to make stunts in time to the rhythm.

On the one hand, cool. On the other hand, terrible, terrible failure.

The Super Nintendo library in Nintendo's NSO-required Classics section has added three new games, including an import with an interesting developer pedigree and mouse support.

Might have some Pikmin music.

This morning, Nintendo posted an unnanounced short film on their YouTube channels. The video is called "Close to You". It bears no overt ties to any existing Nintendo franchises however some of the music does seem to reference tunes from the Pikmin series.

The short depicts invisible forces... Read more...

Some very odd takes on horror as we head toward Halloween, dood.

The two big Switch 2 games of the week are both different takes on horror: you get horror comedy in Disgaea 7 Complete (all DLC included), or you get the horror platformer Little Nightmares III. Or you get acid flashbacks to collectathon 90s platformers (derogatory) with Yooka-Replayee: as the name SHOULD imply, it's a higher definition version of one of the last crowdfunding success stories before Shenmue III did what Shenmue III does.

Just in time for the digital preload warning.

With two weeks to go until Pokemon Legends: Z-A, the final overview trailer for the game has been launched.

The six minute trailer serves to recap most of the news released thus far for the game, including a demo of the "Z-A Battle Club" which will be used to unlock Mega Evolution stones for the original Pokemon X and Y starter trio. The trailer also reiterates that the Switch 2 Edition will have enhanced framerate and resolution.