Legendary composer Nobuo Uematsu has announced that Fantasian — a collaboration with Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi — will be his “final project as a composer of video game music.” Fantasian is finally coming to console and PC in December, but in the meantime, I’m going to be listening to “One Winged Angel” on loop.
Digital Eclipse’s next playable documentary covers 40 years of Tetris history. And while it sadly doesn’t include the influential Game Boy version, the collection does feature a new game called Tetris Time Warp that has players zipping around between different eras and styles of tetromino dropping.
The company just opened a museum, launched Echoes of Wisdom and an alarm clock, and a new Mario Party is out next week. So Nintendo wants to remind you it still has another release this holiday season: the next Mario & Luigi RPG in November. Here’s five minutes explaining what the brothers are up to this time.
Green Day’s Dookie is 30 years old — I’ll give my fellow millennials a moment to gather themselves — and to celebrate the band is releasing demastered tracks available on everything from a toothbrush to a Game Boy cartridge. Unfortunately they’re tough to buy (each track is only available via a drawing) but you can at least listen to them all right here.
The abrupt closure of Humble’s publishing division left a number of indie developers in a state of uncertainty. But now a new label headed by former Humble staff, called the Good Games Group, has formed, with the goal of “working with the amazing indie developers we collaborated with at Humble Games, while also allowing us to chart a new course for the future.”
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Fortnite’s Halloween event kicks off on October 11th, and it will add Jigsaw to the battle royale lineup. He should feel right at home in a squad with pop stars and Disney characters.
