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StarLink: Battle For Atlas – Coming To Nintendo Switch in November, Star Fox Content Revealed

Switch owners have been anxiously awaiting the revival of some fan-favourite franchises on the Nintendo Switch, and it looks like they may have just gotten one, indirectly. StarLink: Battle For Atlas, a new open world space shooter by Ubisoft, has been announced for Nintendo Switch, amoung other major consoles. And while Starlink may initially remind Nintendo fans of Star fox Switch, there’s...

Mighty Gunvolt Gets Free DLC & Updates

Mighty Gunvolt, which has been available on the Switch eshop for some time now, has received its first bit of DLC. Ekoro, from the Japanese on-rails shooter “Gal Gun” is now available as the third playable character in the game. She is available for free from July 27th to August 8th. After this period she will be available for purchase for $1.99 USD.   New updates have added a num...

Poll – Shooter shoot out

There are a decent variety of shooters, but I distilled them down to four essential types.  First-person shooters (FPS) like Sega’s upcoming The Conduit, on-rails shooters like House Of The Dead Overkill, Shoot ’em ups (SHMUPS) like Gradius ReBirth, or scrollers like Metal Slug 7. {democracy:79} Vote and then tell us which game is your favorite shooter in comments!

Review: Fireworks dazzle in Big Bang Mini

Sometimes, the best games are the ones you didn’t see coming. Those games are special. Without media hype or a franchise to which they can attach, they fly under the radar, and no one seems to notice. Big Bang Mini is one of them. I’ll be honest. After the game cartridge made that satisfying, springy click into my DS, the last thing I expected was to be blown away. The game’s gen...

Big Bang Mini explosively colorful, addictive

Fireworks get me pumped. When you include them in a video game and let me shoot them, you become an instant winner in my book. SouthPeak Games, a winner is you. The good folks at SouthPeak were kind enough to send me Big Bang Mini last week, their colorful new fireworks-shooter for the Nintendo DS. This game is literally a blast, a polychromatic particle party you’ll definitely want to try. ...

Cancelled GCN title returns in Wii compilation

GameCube faithful will finally be able to get their hands on Radio Allergy, one of the system’s cancelled 2007 swan songs. Only they’ll be playing it on Wii. Ultimate Shooting Collection, the aptly named shooter compilation, will include Radio Allergy. The localized version of Japanese shooter Radilgy, Radio Allergy was planned to be one of the final games released for GameCube before ...

More Wii shooters inbound with Milestone Shooting Collection

The Milestone Shooting Collection, previously a Japan-only collection of three shooters, is coming stateside on September 23 courtesy of UFO Interactive. The title was initially announced last May (as in, 2007), and with only one title to its name, Karous. Now the title is a collection, and will feature Chaos Field and Radilgy, the former being a GameCube title back in 2005. The others are brand n...

Konami porting Pit Fighter-esque shooter to Wii

El Segundo, CA ”“ January 3, 2007 ”“ Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. announced that Target: Terrorâ„¢ is currently in development for the Nintendo Wiiâ„¢. The game is based on Target: Terror Gold, the top-grossing arcade game of 2006 and designed by arcade pioneer Eugene Jarvis, founder of Raw Thrills, Inc., the developer of Big Buck Hunter PRO.