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The lineup of 21 games includes the never-before-released Star Fox 2.

A follow-up to the impossible-to-find NES classic is on its way from Nintendo, due to launch later this year. Called the Super Nintendo Classic Edition, the new hardware comes with 21 games, including one that has never previously been released.

Scheduled to arrive on September 27, 2017 with an MSRP of $79.99, the mini console ships with two classic controllers, which are compatible with the Classic Controller and Classic Controller Pro accessories you may already be using on your Wii U. Nintendo is emphasizing (as it has with the Switch console) multiplayer gaming, and the Super Nintendo library had no shortage of classics along those lines.

Here is the list of the 21 titles included:
Contra III: The Alien Wars
Donkey Kong Country
EarthBound

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As such experiences go, it comes highly recommended.

I finally have met my favorite author, Terry Brooks, after more than twenty years of wishing I could meet my favorite author, so I feel like that warrants at least a messy blog post.

It especially warrants a blog post because the meeting went very well through no fault of my own. It took place in Cannon Beach, Oregon, where at the time the temperature was expected to hover somewhere between 58 and 81. The people who predict the weather on the Oregon Coast don't seem to have as much luck as those who ply their profession in locations further removed from the sea, so what we got instead was weather closer to 90... which doesn't sound terribly hot to people who live in places like Texas, but which can still make folks irritable and miserable.

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The intriguing RPG is coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC this October.

Battle Chasers: Nightwar is coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC this October, and it looks like quite the intriguing RPG. Now that I've thoroughly repeated myself, though, is there anything left to say? Yes. Yes, there is.

The first thing I might add is that the game first was announced on Kickstarter, way back in September of 2015. I thought it looked quite snazzy even at the time, so I backed it. The game was then expected to arrive by December of 2016, but things happen. Now it finally has a launch date of October 3, 2017, and it is also coming to Switch. That wasn't part of the original campaign promise, but it's good news.

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This post is almost entirely for my own personal reference.

Keeping up on all the games you want can be tough, especially if your tastes tend toward the fairly diverse. And also, if you lose a bunch of contract work and can barely put food on the table, let alone think about buying games. During one of the most amazing seasons the industry has ever seen.

Thankfully, that particular issue has been resolved and now I once again have gainful employment. But the fact remains that over the last couple of years or so, I've let a fair few games slip through the cracks. These are titles that I still want to own, in physical format, and I hope to knock a number of them off the list... probably starting with some that have seen pleasing price drops since they first hit my radar.

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Let me tell you why I think video games are a poor medium for storytelling... because apparently I hate myself today.

In the past, I’ve written to express my distaste for video game stories. Over the years, it has become clear that I am in the minority. Most gamers seem to think stories in games are freaking fantastic, to the point where they will rail against a game I love because it doesn’t happen to have a sufficiently compelling narrative. So today, I thought I would come back with an old opinion of mine: video game stories usually are ineffective enough that I wouldn't mind if they weren't there at all.

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The next game from Watermelon Developments is headed to Genesis later this year. Learn all about it!

If you remember Watermelon Development, it's probably because of that developer's work on Pier Solar and the Great Architects. That title debuted on Genesis in 2010, before finally arriving on numerous other platforms a few years later. Now, the team is prepping its next potential hit, a brawler known as Paprium. The game is set to arrive later this year, and it's already looking very promising.

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The follow-up to Akiba's Trip will be available on PlayStation 4 and Vita, with pre-order incentives.

If you're like EmP, our resident Englishman, you rather enjoyed Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed when it launched on various platforms in 2014 and beyond. You might even have found yourself looking forward to playing an eventual sequel. And so you arrived finally at today, when XSEED Games announced that just such a thing not only is headed west, but finally has an official release date.

Akiba's Beat, the aforementioned sequel, already launched in Japan this past December. Localization takes time, though, and the game won't hit stores in North America until May 16, 2017. A little research shows that a European release is also on its way from PQube, at around the same time.

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