Director’s cut of the modern-day Sega Genesis game WaterMelon’s homebrew projectPier Solar and the Great Architectspushed the Sega Genesis to its limits as a new release in 2010 (!) which I thought was courageous, at the time. Still do. The game shipped on an actual cartridge, albeit one with higher-than-normal storage. Crazy! The developer has since Kickstarted a high-def director’s cut for modern systems, and some of those versions are only now trickling out....

Feeling a bit overwhelmed by all thePersona 4merchandise that’s been stacking up on Japanese shelves? Well, Hori has figured out another way to drain yourMegaTenloving wallet in August with a new arcade style joystick. At least you can tell yourself that you’re a making a functional purchase, instead of another sexyPersonafigmafor your shelves. Amazon.com’s Japaneseshopjust listed the lovely yellow beast, as well as a tentative image, giving it a launchdate of August 2nd....

Today, the perfect game for the summer,Water Warfare(1-8 players, 800 Wii Points), hits WiiWare. Hudson’s first-person water-gun shooter (yes, let’s call it an “FPWS”) features single-player missions, two-player split-screen, and an eight-player multiplayer mode using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Instead of splattering your enemies, why not just splash them? Right? Right. Also perfect for the summer is Natsume’s Wiiware title,Reel Fishing Challenge(1 player, 500 Wii Points)which – as you’d expect – is a fishing game....

The list began in 2001 I’ve gone on-record in the past to state that I would never, ever in a million years let my#Brandfall. Your brand is everything. Your brand is pure profit if you value retweets and likes more than money — and what good millennial doesn’t? Nintendo needs to adopt a millennial mindset obvs (slang for “obviously”) because its brand is struggling according to one company that has taken it upon itself to rank brands....

Sometimes the least important things are what we want the most [Image byPitarou] The amiibo craze doesn’t seem to have died down yet. My guess is that once Nintendo has released 50 different figures, amiibo fans will start to look at all the fun-but-relatively-worthless figures they’ve amassed and suddenly wonder what they are doing with their lives. After that, maybe sales will die down. Maybe. That’s OK though. At that point Nintendo could easily take amiibo-thinking to the virtual realm and start selling non-physical goods forSmash Bros....

Empire Interactive has announced today that they will be bringing their classic seriesPipe Maniaback from the dead this year for the Nintendo DS, Wii, PSP, PS2, Xbox LIVE Arcade, and PC. Can your fragile mind withstand the madness? InPipe Mania, players must lay down pipe pieces in order to the flowing “Flooze” from spilling. For those of you only willing to play fancy games powered by the Unreal Engine 3.0, the concept is not unlike that of the hacking mini-game found in 2K Games’BioShock....

His replacement has already been named Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced its president and CEO Jack Tretton, who has been with the company since 1995, will step down as of July 29, 2025. His successor is Sony Network Entertainment International executive VP and COO Shawn Layden, another long-time PlayStation employee. He previously served as president of SCE Japan. This departure comes as “a result of a mutual agreement between Mr....

Offer good through this summer This week,Sony droppedits $99 PlayStation Mobile publisher license fee which strangely feels like business as usual now that the company seems committed to its new fascination with indies. I’m no developer, but as an avid player, I do love the attitude. PlayStation Mobile might not sound sexy, but it’s one way of getting your game on PlayStation Vita, andyou’d be in good companyon the handheld. Should you be interested, know that the offer isgood through September....

Lucas joins The Fray, dies from a water overdose in a beige 2004 Dodge Stratus In November of last year,Super Smash Bros.head Masahiro Sakurai aptly referred to the man-made Pokemon Mewtwo’s appearance asSmash Bros.DLC as an “experiment.” Sakurai, who has called modern DLC a “scam,” said, “I think there might be criticism that we are cutting up content to sell characters one by one, or that we are adding things later that should have been there from the start....

A Deadly Premonition for this internet developed arena platformer Though we do our best here at Destructoid, it’s hard to talk about every great new videogame. One of games that slipped through our collective cracks isiDarb, a “constantly-evolving, crowd-sourced, minimalist game mechanic sketchbook” that doubles as a “chaotic 8-player eSport jumping jetpack future arena ball game that is as inspired byBombermanandSmash Bros. as it is by cans of soda, paint-by-number books, and driving five miles faster than the speed limit”....

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things. Of games, and boobs, and Elder Scrolls. Of Max and Tara’s zings.” Okay fine, so I suck at rhyming. Please don’t let that deter you from tuning into ourlive tapingof The Destructoid Show at3:30pm PSTtoday. We’ll be talking aboutSkyrim(duh) andMass Effect 3‘sco-op, as well as a bevy of other wholesome news. In addition to that, we’re giving away tons of prizes including ourWar of the Worldscontest pack, severalL....

I’m mostly a solo gamer. I don’t really like to play with anyone, so I don’t use my Xbox 360 memory cards that much. Plus, even the larger ones feel like they’re too small to transport any content anyway. That’s not the case with this Max Memory 2GB memory card, though. As you’d guess, it comes with 2GB of internal memory built in, but its another feature that makes it a good hard drive alternative....

How about that helmet flipping animation? Here’s designer Chris Roberts playing a bit ofStar Citizenahead of PAX East, complete with the audience losing its shit over some rather silly things. Not that I blame them — there’s an immense amount of excitement built up for this$40-million-plusspace sim. We want to believe. Put those people in a room together for a demo of the game’s highly-anticipatedDogfighting moduleand, yeah, they’re going to flip out....