A quarter-century of hunting bounties
25 years ago today, 6th August, Samus Aran took her very first steps into the gaming world in Metroid on the NES, and she never looked back.
Get your dollface
Jaleco's Avenging Spirit is the next 3DS Virtual Console game to hit Europe; its spectre will inhabit the service and start knocking things over on 11th August.
Kinect Fun Labs is growing all the time, with Kinect Sparkler already released and more on the way: earlier we reported on Kinect Fun Labs: Air Band, the newly-rated add-on.
Lacks the X factor
It feels unfair being overly critical of an Xbox Live Indie game. For a measly 80 Microsoft Points you know you're not going to get an experience on-par with the best games out there, but we must still be truthful in our critique of Avatar Superstar.
Level up
We're not far from Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, so it's time to take a look at the plot that drives Square Enix's spin-off from the ever-popular RPG series.
To arms
SEGA's Rise of Nightmares is shuffling menacingly towards Kinect next month, and now we have footage of the weapons you'll be able to use in Kinect's first 18-rated game.
Strangulation during sex lead to woman's death. Man claims woman "would punch him if he did not satisfy her." Know that feeling.
Interestingly Nintendo seems to have removed the Mario Kart 7 artwork and logo from its assets library. Changing it up perhaps?
Get your fake instruments
We've just reviewed Kinect Sparkler but as Kudo Tsunoda said, Kinect Fun Labs is just getting started. The next step up the virtual gameplay ladder looks like being Kinect Fun Labs: Air Band, if a USK rating is anything to go by.
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