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It might be a dead season for game releases (hi Summer!), but there was still plenty to talk about this past week including plenty of SDCC chatter, our preview of Dragon Age: Inquisition, and a special feature where our own Troy took a look at EA and the mobile gaming …

Nintendo has said that there will be a new character reveal for Super Smash Bros Monday, July 14th, 7:00 AM. So who could this character possibly be? If Nintendo is making an announcement for it, and live-streaming the reveal, then it’s probably a rather popular character, one that many fans …

Fans of anime pirates and Bases Loaded should be happy with this week’s offerings on the eShop.

The pic of the day evokes a feeling of nostalgia, revealing a Mario Golf alt costume and Samus’s light suit from Metroid Prime 2. It’s obvious that Sakurai wanted this pic of the day to coincide with July 4th, the stars and stripes on Mario are a dead giveaway. That said, …

This week’s Nintendo Download sports a pretty broad range of games, and the first ever Nintendo cross-play title.

Transformers universes collide in Rise of the Dark Spark, a movie tie-in game that isn’t.

So it appears Nintendo is starting to warm up to cross-buy between Wii U and 3DS. Recently, a title known as Squid’s Odyssey became available for free on Wii U if you purchased it on 3DS. This is something that players have been itching to get from Nintendo for quite …

Nintendomination is at it again with some more footage of Nintendo games in 60 frames per second. This time, it’s Bayonetta 2 from E3 2014. The footage here shows Bayonetta fighting the Lumen Sage while Loki watches from a short distance. He recommends that you speed up the video twice …

Shovel Knight teaches us one important lesson, greed is good, and it hasn’t felt this good since Wario Land first arrived in 1993. Ordinarily, I tend to avoid indie games, as I’ve had a fair amount of bad experiences with them in the past. VVVVVV was a notable exception, and …

The Summer doldrums have rolled in hard, but we still had plenty to talk about this past week including tons of X-Men news and opinion, rumors of CryTek’s impending bankruptcy, some release dates (of both he factual and rumored varieties), and more.

Shovel Knight highlights this week’s offerings on the eShop along with the Virtual Console release of Castlevania III.

Yacht Club Games’ platformed about a knight with a penchant for digging arrives on Nintendo’s consoles with Shovel Knight.

Lots to talk about in the post-E3 week that was including Nintendo and Wii U news aplenty, the upswing in sales that the industry has seen in the wake of the next-gen onslaught, the first scattered mentions of next month’s SDCC, and our usual assortment of news and reviews.

Summer is traditionally a slower time for new game releases, but there are plenty of titles out there (both new and old) that are keeping the BG staff locked away in their air-conditioned lairs during the hottest months of the year.

The cute little puzzler is among the many new releases onto the eShop this week.

Activision’s newest Transformers title brings on the bad guys in the return of Escalation Mode.