Today, Nintendo announced that it will release two new entries in the Yo-Kai Watch series, Yo-Kai Watch Blaster: Red Cat Corps and Yo-Kai Watch Blasters: White Dog Squad for the 3DS on September 7. The games will depart from its roots and act as an action-RPG that supports local and

Kolossal Games might not be the largest publisher, but they’ve had some huge hits on Kickstarter.  At Origins I got a chance to look at the wild west themed Western Legends.  If you want to get the feel of Red Dead Redemption in a board game, then be sure

Bezier Games is known for their spin on the classic Werewolf with One Night Ultimate Werewolf.  Some gamers didn’t find a single night satisfying, so Bezier decided to expand the gameplay and add some cool looking bits. I got a look at One Week Ultimate Werewolf, and it looks

It seems like there are several games with a historic Asian theme.  Games like the recent Rising Sun to the old Gamemaster Series Shogun/Samurai Swords/Ikusa, samurai and ninjas seem to be bred into the boardgaming culture.  At Origins I got to sit with Adrienne Ezell who designed Shogunate,

There’s always something appealing when new games go back to the basics and riff on some of the earliest experiences in the medium. Games like Pong or Tetris represent more than just games at this point, more than even genres. They feel almost like elemental parts of gaming, things

One of the first dynamics we get introduced to at the start of My Hero Academia is the friendship between main characters Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo. While the friendship is seemingly one-sided (with Bakugo’s hot-tempered personality shunning Midoriya at all times), there have been times where the two

Volume 11 of My Hero Academia contained the series’ best chapters so far. With a climactic battle that ended in bittersweet victory, and a framework set for events moving forward, it seems that the series is going from 0 to 100 pretty quickly now. However, as with all intense arcs,

LEGO games have been around for a while now and we have seen many beloved franchises get the LEGO treatment. In their newest game, Warner Brothers and LEGO have given a Pixar classic, The Incredibles,  the blocky makeover. This is the first Pixar title to get its own LEGO game