At first, 2012 seemed like a disappointing year because there wasn’t that one game that blew everybody away and won all of the awards. However, when I look through all the games myself and the rest of our staff enjoyed the most this past year, 2012 was actually a great year for gaming thank to the [...]

Hot off the heels of last night’s big announcements from Nintendo of Japan, Nintendo of America had their own preview of what’s to come for the Wii U–including the release date and price of their next generation console, and it looks like the western gamers will be the first to get their hands on the [...]

When New Super Mario Bros. was released on the Nintendo DS in 2006, it showed that Nintendo was still very interested in the historical roots of their famous mascot. It wasn’t because the company doubted the old-school style, but it was because gamers were treated to excessive rehashes featuring the plumber–especially that of Mario Party. [...]

Like many big gaming companies, Square Enix is one that’s well aware of both its own history and the history of its own franchises. So of course the company is going to make a big deal about the 25th anniversary of what’s probably the most popular RPG series of all time, Final Fantasy. After years [...]

A few hours ago, Nintendo held “Nintendo Direct” videos to update gamers, fans, and writers alike about what the popular developer and publisher has up its sleeve for the coming months. Japan and North America each had separate Nintendo Directs, and while each one had some content exclusive to each region, each one also had [...]

Nintendo took the first shots of E3 2012 with its Nintendo Direct presentation tonight starring Nintendo President Satoru Iwata. This presentation was centered on offering new information about the Wii U, as the press conference on Tuesday will be focusing on Wii U games. They showed off the new version of the Wii U GamePad, [...]

  As summer arrives, the biggest event of the gaming industry’s calendar is here as E3 begins next week. The show opens on Tuesday June 5 and finishes up on Thursday June 7 with a few press conferences that will occur on Monday and Tuesday to give us the biggest announcements of the show. Despite [...]

    With 2012 off to a good start, it’s time for us to take a look back at 2011 with our annual The Year in Screenshots feature that highlights our favorite games of the year. Rather than argue about awarding a single game as our game of the year, we here at SmashPad prefer [...]

The Star Fox series is one of Nintendo’s most popular trademarks, but none of the games in the series even come close to the experience that Star Fox 64 had.  Like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D before it, Star Fox 64 has been given the 3D treatment, and the game is every [...]

Activision’s upcoming Spider-Man: Edge of Time feels like it’s going to be a lot more of what we saw in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. While not a true sequel, it’s pulling ideas from the game by focusing on The Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099.