‘Ninja Gaiden’ and other NES classics are coming to Switch Online

The NES games keep coming as an added incentive to get you to sign up to Nintendo’s Switch Online subscription service, aside from online play and cloud saves, of course. A trio of new titles have been announced today: side-scrolling action-platformer Ninja Gaiden, Tetris-style puzzler Wario’s Woods (featuring Wario and Toad) and Adventures of Lolo, […]

The Messenger is a Ninja Gaiden homage that is more than it appears

Shovel Knight is one of my favorite indie games. IT manages to capture the magic of 8-bit classics like Mega Man and Castlevania with tight platforming and beautiful pixel graphics. The Messenger is accomplishing many of the same things, but it takes its inspiration from the Ninja Gaiden series for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The […]