Nintendo GBA
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TWISTED FIGHTSTARTER Doom-inspired Dragon's Dogma 2 mod lets you engineer inter-enemy fights by controlling exactly how angry they can get
As Harry Hill would say, there's only one real way to find out whether a Cyclops is better than a wolf.
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WAHOO! The Super Mario Bros. movie is getting a sequel, to the surprise of absolutely no one
But will it do anything with that post-credits scene?
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START YOUR ENGINES Lego is making a Mario Kart set, but the real winner is The Bowser Express Train
Your wallets will be emptied soon enough.
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CUT AND TRIM Need another way to play Doom? How about a lawn mower?
Add that to the ever-growing pile of weird ways to play the classic shooter.
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RETRO RACING Need For Speed Unbound to get new NFS Underground and Hot Pursuit-style races
Wahey, just try not to feel too old now you know NFS turns 30 this year.
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CROSS UP Are you Toph enough? Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting a fighting game
There's no word on a developer yet, but the game will be launching in Early Access in 2025.
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QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS 24 years later, no-one can quite agree on when exactly The Sims actually came out
One year short of the franchise's big quarter-century anniversary, we set out to trace it back to its exact calendar roots.
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R YOU SERIOUS? Update: Remedy says its letter R logo dispute with Take-Two was "resolved entirely and amicably" last year
"There is nothing to see here."
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WE'VE STRUCK GOLD Nintendo Switch Online gets a couple of cult classic Game Boy Advance RPGs next week
Expansion Pack's collection of GBA titles gets a little bigger.
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GO OUTSIDE Hideo Kojima says OD is as different as Boktai, his solar-powered Gameboy game
Motherfudgers forgot about Boktai, the game that made you touch grass before it was cool.
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The best PS2 games to play in 2024
It's time to take a trip back in time to one of the best generations of gaming.
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RIP Max Payne voice actor James McCaffrey passes away, tributes pour in
“No one could do what he did better than him.”
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The best video game soundtracks to revisit in 2024
From classical symphonies and industrial noise to acid jazz and synthwave, these game soundtracks leave no stone left unturned.
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Shown off at The Game Awards, a lot of new SEGA games are on the way.
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BOWSER MODE Jack Black goes wild in TikTok remix of 'Peaches' from The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The gift that keeps on giving.
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SURE, JAN Zelda director is aiming for "live-action Miyazaki" and I'm looking for dry water
When pigs fly, etc.
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SUM SUM (OF CASH) The Sims just got official merch and it's about as pricy as the average expansion pack
I don’t need the Sul Sul Bubble Tee. I don’t need the Su-(pulls out credit card).
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EARLY PRATTSENT The Super Mario Bros Movie is coming to US Netflix in time for Christmas, Pratt lovers rejoice
No, you don’t have to tell the actor you love his Mario voice before the film will play (we assume).
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The show was first announced back in 2018.
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EXCUUUSE ME PRINCESS The Zelda movie is real and I need someone to wake me up from this nightmare
And... Sony is producing it? Have I shifted into another plane of existence?
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SAVED BY THE DEVIL Twenty years on, a cancelled Daredevil PS2 game is now playable
Welcome back to the land of the living.
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CONTROL YOURSELF Alan Wake dev, Remedy, offers status updates on major sequel and anticipated remakes
Control 2 and the Max Payne remakes sound like they're making good progress.
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FACE/ON The face of Max Payne, Sam Lake, on if he regrets using his likeness in the games
Alan Wake 2's director seems like he semi-regrets becoming the literal face of the Max Payne franchise.
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SHAPESWINGER Spider-Man 2 has a very glitchy way of saying it thinks Miles is a bit of a square
Is it about my spider-cube?
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THWIPPING TO THE TOP Spider-Man 2 is already the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game ever
PlayStation has produced another hit with Spider-Man 2, and it's already setting a new record.
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Hey Ray Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will have ray tracing on no matter what visual mode you choose
Whatever your preferred frame rate is, the lighting will look great.
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ANOTHER CLASSIC Mario vs Donkey Kong: The GBA puzzle-platformer gets a Modern Remaster in 2024
The rivalry that heated up on the Game Boy Advance system reignites on Switch.
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It's A Not Me It’s the end of an era: Charles Martinet is no longer the voice of Mario
The iconic voice actor will also be stepping back from his other roles.
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Deals Here's where to pre-order Marvel's Spider-Man 2 PS5 bundle and DualSense controller
Find out which retailers are issuing pre-orders for the Spider-Man 2 PS5 bundle.
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HOW SYMBIOTEIC Venom returns in Marvel's Spider-Man 2, but he's not who you think he is
There's also a cool Spider-Man 2 PS5 Limited Edition on the way
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GIMMICK A BREAK What's the best game with the worst gimmick? The Best Games Ever Show episode 59
Video games are full of gimmicks, and the bad ones are usually found in bad games. But not always...
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LIKE A DRAGOON “Experimentation and emotion”: The past, present, and future of RPGs with Final Fantasy 4's Takashi Tokita
One of the most influential RPG creators – developer of Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Live A Live and Parasite Eve – talks about the future of the genre.
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Hold Your Horses Super Mario Bros. Movie producer downplays those Legend of Zelda film rumours
Always take a pinch of salt when you hear a Nintendo related rumour.
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To Infinity... Hideo Kojima stays true to his brand, says he wants to make a game you can play in space
The heart wants what the heart wants.
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SMODERLING RIVALRIES Classic GBA title Fire Emblem ignites Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack on June 22
Plan your strategy and draw your steel.
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Pause Screen Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel on hold due to the ongoing writer's strike, says Chris Pratt
A sequel hasn't been formally announced as of yet.
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THE OFFSPRING Can bad games have good sequels?
In contrast to Hollywood, videogames usually improve with every iteration. The Best Games Ever Show Episode 54
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KINGDOM COME Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is great, but I hope the next game is nothing like it
Whatever Nintendo does with the next part in the Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom series, I hope it's something completely different.
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ADVANCED TO THE MAX Complete your Super Mario Advance collection on Switch with these three additional titles
Hot town summer in the city, more Mario Advanced on Nintendo Switchy.
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TONY BLEURGH VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.46: The best game that features a 90s star
It was the best decade between the 80s and the 2000s.
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MAMMA MIA A short history of how Mario, gaming’s most famous Italian, almost wasn’t Italian
What if Mario had been designed as a generic European guy? What then?
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FARTHOUSE Nuts to Mario: How a £10 discount made me a 'Wario Kid' for life
Don't forget the Wario fans – there are dozens of us! Dozens!
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X GON GIVE IT TO YA Metroid Fusion remains the scariest 2D game ever
The Metroid franchise has never been too cheery, but GBA’s sole new Metroid entry cranked the spook factor up to eleven. 21 years later, it still unnerves us.
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GREEN WITH NOSTALGIA Game Boy games are mostly awful, but GBA on Switch Online Expansion Pack is huge
Game Boy Advance was a golden age of handheld gaming, if you could see the screen.
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RETRO MADNESS Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games coming to Nintendo Switch Online
A selection is out today.
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POKEMON GALORE There are now 1008 Pokemon in the wild
Have you caught them all?
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HOLE IN ONE (ENGINE) The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King was developed using Tiger Woods engine
Tiger Woods engine later had Gandalf references in the code.
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SIMS IN THE BIG CITY The Urbz at 18: EA’s most bizarre spin-off experiment may be one of its best
The Sims' lesson in sociology? Say no more.
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PRATT FALL We replaced Chris Pratt with Charles Martinet in The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer
Mario's original voice actor has quite the range.
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The Spice The GBA's latest game is an unreleased Dune adaptation with a fresh lick of paint
A reminder that where there's a will, there's a way (sometimes).