Hudson's handling of the Bomberman franchise in recent years never fails to perplex the observer. Here we have one of the most enduring party-game concepts in the history of videogames, a game that ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Super Bomberman R Online, Konami's well-received party game, is shutting down this year. Konami has announced that it will "terminate the service" for ...

I’ve never played Bomberman sober. My encounters with the long-running franchise have always been the same: I’m at some kind of retro-themed video game meet-up, we’ve all had a couple of drinks, and ...

If you took a hardcore Bomberman fan and sat him in a room with Bomberman Act: Zero without showing him the box copy, without showing the menu screen, but just gave him a controller and said "play," ...

For all the Marios, Sonics, and Crash Bandicoots of the video game universe, there are just as many second-tier mascot characters like Hudson's nondescript bomb-dropping concoction, Bomberman. And ...

In ways, we're amazed that Bomberman has never become a victim of this politically correct era. In an age when whipping out a camcorder in many parts of London can earn you a lecture from a police ...

Konami's entertaining Super Bomberman R is returning next week - reduced and rejuvenated with a new 64-player battle royale mode - as a "first on Stadia" exclusive. The imaginatively titled Super ...

Let’s start by stating the bloomin’ obvious: Bomberman’s concept is brilliant in its simplicity. So brilliant, in fact, that it’s barely changed since the original Bomberman emerged in 1983. You’re a ...

The lovable Bomberman Bots are back for a new adventure with Super Bomberman R 2. Taking place in the same universe as its predecessor, but featuring an all new story, players join White Bomber and ...

I used to go to MAGfest every year, a 24-hour music and gaming convention on the east coast that’s a bit too big and pricey now, but that’s not why I bring it up. I had a tradition; every year the ...

Bomberman is a particularly fitting title to make free, considering it’s got a 64-player battle royale mode that’s exclusive to Stadia, and its lobbies might have been difficult to fill if each player ...

It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years since the last Bomberman title, and almost a decade since one was released on a Nintendo console. Yet here we are in 2017, with Nintendo Switch launch title ...