Former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime revealed earlier this year that Kanye West approached him at an E3 “many years ago” in hopes of collaborating with the company on making a game. First reported by Nintendo Everything, this information came from Fils-Aime’s podcast with gaming journalist Harold Goldberg, Talking Games With Reggie and Harold. According
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WELCOME TO E3 2019, BABY!!!! We may have died, but we have come back from the grave for this glorious weekend. It’s that special time of the year where gamers around the globe watch a computer screen for hours to witness a video game get announced. Logan Moore, Michael Ruiz, and Max Roberts have joined
Logan, Michael, and their good friend Mario Rivera are on Drop In/Drop Out this week to talk about early thoughts on The Division 2, Halo: The Master Chief Collection coming to PC, and for some reason, My Chemical Romance. Full breakdown of Episode 16: The Division 2!! Left 4 Dead Successor Back 4 Blood Announced Borderlands
Devil May Cry has returned and the fantastic early review scores lead Logan and Michael to talk about the Japanese gaming scene as a whole which has been on fire the past few years. The duo also ends up talking about what happens when video games as a hobby begin to grow a bit stale. Here’s
Logan, Mike, and DualShockers’ own Max Roberts played a whole lot of Anthem this past week and discuss their thoughts on BioWare’s latest. They also talk about a potential next-gen announcement from Microsoft at E3 2019. Oh, and Bowser runs Nintendo now. Here’s everything we discuss in Episode 14: Anthem is not very good ToeJam
It’s a shorter edition of Drop In/Drop Out this week (for once) but there’s still a lot to talk about! With Mike out of town, Tomas Franzese joins Logan this week to break down all of the latest news and happenings in the video game industry. This includes the rise of Respawn’s Apex Legends over the past
Kingdom Hearts III is finally out and there’s one question on everyone’s minds: is it a good video game? We discuss the merits of what we’ve played of KH3 so far on this week’s latest episode of DIDO and are joined by DualShockers’ own Chris Compendio to try and break down what the heck is going
Drop In/Drop Out returns this week for our first double-digit episode to give you our hottest takes on the latest news. To kick things off, Mike talks about his hatred for YIIK: A Postmodern RPG and Logan shares his love for Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes. Max then talks about the most recent game he has played
This week on Drop In/Drop Out, Michael, Steven, and Logan get together to talk about Sonic the Hedgehog and his deformed look in the upcoming 2019 film. Oh, and they talk about some video games along the way mere hours before Game of the Year discussions kick off. Episode 7 topics: Kinda Funny Games Showcase
This week on Drop In/Drop Out, Michael, Max, and Logan all record together in person and the audio quality doesn’t end up being all that great — apologies in advance. The entire show this week is dedicated to The Game Awards and breaking down all of the announcements that came out of it. This includes Marvel
Hey everyone, long time no chat! This is Lou Contaldi, Editor-in-Chief of DualShockers and I’m looking for your help. If you’ve been a frequent reader, you may have noticed that DualShockers design looked… dated. Not much has changed since when DualShockers first started in 2009. While it may be a streamlined way to get to
This week on Drop In/Drop Out, Michael and Tomas join Logan to talk about their thoughts on recent games such as Darksiders III, Pokemon: Let’s Go! and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Before getting into predictions for The Game Awards next week, they also talk about Red Dead Online’s new release and the failure that has become Fallout 76. Episode 5 topics:
This week on Drop In/Drop Out, Logan is out sick so Michael picks up the hosting reigns and is joined by DualShockers Staff Writer Max Roberts for an intimate one on one chat. Here’s what is touched on in Episode 3: More Red Dead Redemption 2 Thoughts Tetris Effect Impressions PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Coming to PS4
This week on Drop In/Drop Out, Logan and Michael are joined by Tomas Franzese and Chris Compendio to talk about all of the hottest topics in video games that YOU want to hear about. To open the show, the crew gives their thoughts on what they’ve played of Red Dead Redemption 2 so far before then getting
Welcome to Drop In/Drop Out! Starting today, Drop In/Drop Out will be a new weekly podcast hosted on DualShockers that features voices from a variety of its staff members. The show will mainly be laid back and conversational with usual topics focusing on games we’ve been playing while also discussing the recent news that has
With the end of Gamescom 2018, another big summer event is behind us, as we gear up for Tokyo Game Show in September. This year’s show in Cologne was definitely rich with Japanese content, including Devil May Cry 5, Ace Combat 7, Resident Evil 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and many more. Square Enix also presented Left Alive
Whether Japanese games are “cool” or not depends a lot on who you’re talking to. Some consider them absolutely cool, others don’t. Lately, there has certainly been an increase in the former camp. So what makes Japanese games “cool” for those who enjoy them? There are many factors in play, which have to do with
Visual novels are a very peculiar genre, which tends to be very specific to Japan, with quite a few recent imitations from developers who love Japanese games. Among the immense production of visual novels coming from the archipelago of the Rising Sun, the Muv-Luv series is certainly one of the most popular. Interestingly, it tends
Anime Expo 2018 was hosted last week in Los Angeles, and it brought quite a lot of reveals and announcements for the Japanese games-loving crowd. The show used to focus mostly on anime, but the past few years saw a shift towards gaming, with smaller publishers and developers (joined by bigger ones like Bandai Namco)
E3 2018 has come and gone. While it was no Tokyo Game Show, it’s doubtless that a ton of great Japanese games was showcased. Yet, there are many that were expected to make an appearance, but were missing in action. Of course, the big one was the Final Fantasy VII Remake, but there are many
Anime games, or games dedicated to anime IP, are becoming more and more common nowadays, with publishers like Bandai Namco, Sega, Koei Tecmo and more creating titles that bring interactivity to many fans’ favorite anime and manga franchises. Yet, more often than not those games aren’t that great. In this week’s episode, we discuss the
E3 2018 has finally come and gone and our WeebcCast is back from a week-long break. After writing 128 news pieces from EA Play to the last day of the show, I simply did not have the energy to squeeze the podcast in, but it’s back with a vengeance. In this tenth episode (yes! We’ve
Today, during a panel at Bitsummit in Kyoto, Inti Creates and Artplay announced Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. During the Kickstarter campaign for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, an 8-bit game was promised as a stretch goal, and Curse of the Moon is exactly that game. Basically, it’s a nostalgic 8-bit Igavania that fans of
Most of you probably noticed that here at DualShockers we love Japanese games. As a matter of fact, we love them so much that we realized that we don’t talk about them enough. The DualShockers’ Weebcast is basically our attempt to make up for that. For the longest time, the team at DualShockers has worked
While only Logan and Tomas are on Episode 47 of DualShockers’ ShockCast this week, that didn’t stop them from talking quite a bit about one of this past month’s biggest gaming controversies – intrusive loot boxes and microtransactions in AAA games. Specifically, we mainly talk about their implementation in Middle Earth: Shadow of War and Star
This week’s shows is a bit shorter, but Logan, Taylor, and Scott still cover a fair amount of ground. Per usual, the cast talks about what they’ve been playing recently at the top of the show with the discussion centering on Destiny 2, FIFA 18, Forza Motorsport 7, and Metroid: Samus Returns. Afterwards, the crew
This week, Logan is joined by Tomas and Michael to run down a variety of games they each have been playing. Some of these include Destiny 2, Madden 18, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Shovel Knight, Yakuza 0, and a handful of others. After plugging some recent content on the website relating to PAX West,
On this week’s ShockCast, Logan is joined by Noah Buttner and Tomas Franzese to talk about the recent Destiny 2 preview coverage on the site and the feeling that they each have a week before the game’s release. Tomas then runs down a variety of games he has reviewed lately ranging from Madden 18 to