Coin Arcade

English Minecraft fans, rejoice! Mojang has recently revealed that 2015’s MINECON will be hosted in London in the Spring.

Described as a mixture of Dark Souls’ difficulty and Mega Man’s precise platforming, (with tastes of Earthworm Jim and Rayman thrown in) Bacon Man is a three-person developed platformer/RPG that somehow manages to deliver more charm and quality than many AAA titles thrown in our direction these days.

Cookie Clicker was one of the first idle games that took the world by storm last year and, Influenced by this addictive phenomenon, some clever students at the CERN Summer Student Webfest decided to create a physics-based clone, appropriately titled ‘Particle Clicker’.

Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid line of figures have always impressed and delighted collectors, and I imagine that’ll remain the case with their upcoming release of Metal Gear Solid’s Solid Snake.

TwitchPlaysPokemon, the Twitch stream that saw Twitch viewers collectively play a game of Pokémon, took the internet by storm. But humans are soooo early 2014 and fish are so in right now, so let’s all watch a single fish do the job instead.

Introducing Coin Arcade’s video game anniversary project, Gameiversary! Supplying the (probably unnecessary) niche for video game anniversaries, Gameiversary alerts you daily to that day’s video game anniversaries.

Now, don’t get me wrong: I love Nintendo. I love them for all of their charm, their uniqueness, the memories they invoke in me and their joy-filled games. However, I’ve always felt that at times, Nintendo simply don’t know what they’re doing - especially when they make stupid moves like firing their entire field PR division.