Rick Healey writes "You know, it's been over four years since the original Mega Man has had a starring role – and that was just a rerelease of previous starring roles. It's actually been closer to fifteen since Mega Man has been the star. And I'm talking the original Mega Man – not that I didn't have fun with Mega Man ZX or Mega Man Battle Network, but it's been ages since my first favorite game franchise has really released a game. Moreover, thanks to how many ways they screwed up Mega Man 8 (I still twitch when I think about the voice acting), I was certain that we'd never see any future release in the series.
So it was with quite a bit of surprise that I felt when Capcom announced that all the platforms would get Mega Man 9. Sure, there was much gnashing of teeth – it would be going retro, featuring 8-bit era graphics and play? It was going to feature a female Robot Master? It was even going to include a mode that invoked flicker? You'd have honestly thought that Keiji Inafune, creator of Mega Man, had personally urinated on every video game console of this generation. And then, Mega Man 9 actually came out for the download service of all three. "
Like any franchise, there are entries in the mainline Mega Man series have proved better than others, either because of how much they did (or didn't) alter the gameplay design philosophy that made it legendary in the industry. Today, we've got every mainline entry in the series ranked from worst to best.
Neil writes: "Let's be honest - the Xbox Live Deals With Gold sale last week was a bit rubbish. Yeah there were a few titles worth taking a punt on but the vast majority saw non-appealing discounts and the lack of super cheap pocket money games was noticeable.
We can forget about all that now though as the Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale for 3rd-9th July 2018 is now in place and it is bringing a whole new range of discounts to both Xbox One and Xbox 360 players. Want to check out the full list of games on sale?"
Replies(1)Several of these games have been on GWG, Slime Rancher and Super Mega Baseball 2. Others are on Gamepass. There is an Anime sale going on with up to 75% off. Fifa 18 at just 15quid, although I'll wait until it's in the EA Access Vault and get it for free.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "The official end of the WiiWare service may not be until early 2019 but we wanted to give everybody as much of a chance as possible to remember all of the great games that Nintendo’s first every download service brought us. Last week we counted down the first 10 games in our look at the Top 20 WiiWare games ever made, and if you haven’t had the chance yet you can check out those picks right here but now we switch our focus over to the very best that WiiWare has to offer so if you still have a Wii (or a Wii U) kicking around make sure to download these games before they are lost forever."
