Our buddy Patrick Kulikowski covers the opening stage theme Pixelitis’ Patrick Kulikowski, who moonlights as the elusive yet ever-vigilant VGdrummer, is excited for Mega’s 25th anniversary just like the rest of us. With his mad skills, he celebrates with another incredible drum cover, this time of the opening stage fromMega Man X3. The SNES (and PS1 / Saturn) classic catches a lot of flack for not having as “memorable” a soundtrack as the earlierXtitles, but that is bunkus....

Oh, the nostalgia The Pokémon Company has released its latest game soundtrack on iTunes. This time, it’s the Super Music Collection forPokémon HeartGoldandSoulSilver, which is the one I’ve been waiting for this whole time. I don’t think I’m alone in that regard, either. Though I had played the prior games like most everyone else my age, it wasn’t untilSilverandGoldback in 2000 that I became an utterPokémonfanatic. That sense of fandom has wavered over the years, but those remain my favorite titles in the franchise, hands down....

[Dtoid community blogger fulldamage shines the spotlight on some of the biggest videogame superfans in the industry.Want to see your own words appear on the front page?Go write something!–Mr Andy Dixon] I first metZoya Streetat GDC last year, giving a talk on swords and economic narrative in theFinal Fantasyseries, 1988 – 2009. She had a coolly-designed infographic up on the wall, and — most interesting to me — she wasn’t actually from a developer or publisher, giving the kind of “Tips for Breaking Into the Industry” or “Post Mortem from my Awesome Triple A Game” or “Best Middleware for Reticulating All Your Splines Efficiently” sort of talks that fill up most of the rooms....

Skateboarder? I hardly even know her! OlliOlliis a super fun little Vita game, but a lot of people won’t buy a Vita because “it doesn’t have any games” and they like to be wrong about things. If you’re one of those people (or you don’t have a Vita for a reasonable reason; for example, you live paycheck to paycheck barely making rent), rejoice. OlliOlliis coming toPS3, PS4, and PCon July 22,Den of Geekreports....

Over a month ago, mega news service Reuters silently left the virtual world ofSecond Life. A Reuters spokeswoman confirmed the terrible news toThe Register, and added that Reuters will continue to report onSecond Life, but “only as part of [their] usual tech and media coverage.” Is this a sign that the game has lost its steam? In an interview withSilicon Alley Insider(viaGame Politics) Eric Krangel, Reuters’ initial embedded reporter in the virtual world, said that his experience in the game was nothing more than boring....

Hiroyuki Miyazaki and Yosuke Okunari will be appearing A Sega surprise stream has been announced with an “urgent notice” this morning fromthe company’s Japanese Twitter account, and there’s a few hints as to what it could deal with. Debuting on June 3 at 20:00 JST (7AM ET), the live broadcast will feature Hiroyuki Miyazaki and Yosuke Okunari. Respectively, they have worked on many franchises at Sega in the past, includingPuyo Puyo/Phantasy Star Online 2/Sonic/NiGHTs, andJet Set Radio/3DS Sega Classics/Panzer Dragoon....

Also available on Steam and Epic Well, look who’s chewing on my neck all of a sudden: It’sState of Decay 2,a game released back in 2018. Like a freak you didn’t behead all the way, it’s back up and at ’em, ready tocrack your head open and feast on the goo inside. With seemingly no notice outside the crowd still playing the game, Undead Labs has put out an upgraded “Juggernaut Edition” of the game on Xbox One and PC via the Microsoft Store, Epic Games Store, and Steam....

We gave you the skinny on what wasmaking it intotheSuper Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remixpatch not too long ago, but now we can tell you when it’s going livecourtesy of Capcom. The patch has already been released for Europeans who own the PlayStation 3 version, but because the rest of the world hasn’t received the update just yet, it may be relatively difficult to find an opponent online as you cannot play with anyone who doesn’t have the new fixes....

This week onSup Holmes?we haveMiguel Sternbergfrom Spooky Squid games, developer of the upcoming gamesThey Bleed PixelsandGuerrilla Gardening: Seeds of Revolution,and the curuator of the recentComics Vs. Gamesevent (featuring the work of Dtoid alumniAshley DavisandLinzb0t, as well as many other fantastic artists). We’ll be talking to Miguel about all that and more. Personally, I want to know how he feels aboutBastionripping off his idea forcontext based, in-game narration. I bet he’ll be all humble about it, because he is a humble dude....

We need lots of info on this one, so that works It’s a weird time. We can go from “no newMariogames on the horizon” to “multipleMariogames on the horizon” within minutes. Or,Age of Calamitycan be announced on a whimand give us a prequel toZelda: Breath of the Wildone random morning. Speaking ofAge of Calamity, it’s out in a few months we know basically nothing about it other than the fact that it’s set 100 years beforeBreath of the Wild....

Sometimes you just want some good times Let’s be honest,many of us have backlog problems. We’re constantly compelled to keep up with the latest gaming trends and the most exciting releases. We have a variety of reasons why we may want to buy new games now rather than waiting for sales and price cuts later. But as a result of our constant need to keep up and buy more games, we leave more and more games unfinished....

Forza ain’t the only one with horsepower This week marks the one-year anniversary since the Xbox Scorpio (now Xbox One X) was revealed at E3 2016. In the past year, Microsoft has regularly teased how powerful this machine would be, but mostly in terms like “six teraflops” and “60Hz rendering.” Everyone knows those specs are impressive, but it’s tough to quantify how that translates to running games. We’re basically just told that the games run well....

Promoted from our Community Blogs! [In honor of the newest Ys game’s release, I thought it appropriate to promote JoyfulSanity’s wonderful series buyers guide. Want to see your own blog appear on our front page?Go write something!–Mr Andy Dixon] I’ve been seeing a lot of people ask “what the heck isYs” recently. As an avid fan who can hopefully take a step back and look at these games from a newcomer’s perspective, I hope to answer the most common questions while offering my insight into what these games are like and whether they’ll be a good match for you....