It’s not a half-bad week for downloadable titles on 3DS. A day after getting The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition (also available on DSiWare) for free , a new Mario title for Game Boy is now available for download. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins is the sequel to the already-released...

Feature Share it: Tweet Castlevania Chronicles: We’ve Been Killing Dracula for 25 Years Looking back at a quarter-century of (mostly) greatness. By: Jeremy Parish September 25, 2011 Twenty-five years ago, on September 26, 1986, Konami launched a brand new game in Japan that would go on to become...

The latest 3D Classics title has been released on the 3DS eShop today. TwinBee is a vertical-scrolling shooter that started out in arcades before being brought to the Famicom (NES) in Japan. It was never brought to North America on that platform, but we did get the arcade version as a part of Konami...

Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. I traveled to Japan for Tokyo Game Show and only bought a single old video game. Continued here: TGS: Photo Gallery – Up Close and Personal With Japan’s Exclusive Super Mario Converse All-Stars

Netflix is undergoing some major changes, including the separation of its DVD-by-mail and streaming services into two separate brands, as well as the addition of videogame rentals. In a new blog post and accompanying video, Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings apologized for the way recent changes...

He might not look it at a glance, but Namco Sound Team member Go Shiina — best known for his work on Mr. Driller , Tales of Legendia , and Ace Combat — is obsessed with food Here is the original post: TGS: How Food Gives Life to Namco’s Game Music

It’s a light offering of new content for Nintendo’s various download service this, but there is a Mega Man for 3DS and the new game from the developers of the Trials series. Before you go getting too excited about the prospect of having a Mega Man game to play on your 3DS, know that it’s...

The Tokyo Game Show is consuming us this week along with a ton of new game announcements, in-depth reveals for existing titles, and a ton of video game trailers. We’ve selected 10 of our favorite trailers from the show and shared them with you here. If your favorite didn’t make the list,...

If there seems to be an unusually dense concentration of Dragon Quest news on 1UP this week, that’s because the series is highly visible around Tokyo at the moment due to the incipient release of a 25th anniversary collection of the first three titles in the series. And few people know Dragon...

I know it’s a cliché, but sometimes there’s truth in such tripe: Japan loves its Dragon Quest . Outside of Mario and Monster Hunter , no other game franchise holds quite so much power over the gaming masses — and like Mario, it’s a sway that commands more than just the teenager...