Forget the NES Classic — this is the vintage system we've been waiting for. Nintendo today announced the Super Nintendo Classic, which will come with 21 games including the previously unreleased Star Fox 2.

Looking to capture the thrill of a heated round of Rocket League on your desk? Zag Toys' collectible pull-back racers won't do that, but they're so damn adorable.

Amidst the hustle and bustle of the Mini SNES this morning, it was revealed that the esports league for Channel Seven's new gaming show, screenPLAY, would feature two games.

Video: As long time frenemies, Batman and Superman are no strangers to fighting each another. We all know that Bruce and Clark are both perfectly capable of beating the crap out of each other with their fists, have you ever considered which of them would win... if they were Pokemon trainers? Of course you have.

Fire Emblem Warriors is an upcoming hack and slash game featuring heroes from the popular strategy games. Staff writer Heather Alexandra and Kotaku editor in chief Stephen Totilo sat down with Masahiro Higuchi from Intelligent Systems and Yosuke Hayashi from Koei Tecmo to talk about the game and whether or not it will have Donnel the villager.

For years, it was one of the better fan theories out there, and now it's confirmed to be true: Peter Parker was in Iron Man 2.

Perhaps in a bid to capitalise on the excitement surrounding the Mini SNES, emails have gone out to press talking about a "Sega Mega Drive Flashback" or "Genesis Flashback" box that will be sold at Australian stores this year.

There's just one problem, and it's the same problem that cropped up last year. The Mini NES and SNES were brand new products built by Nintendo to perfectly run older games. The "Sega Mega Drive Flashback", or "Genesis Flashback" is a third-party emulator box.

Aside from the classic 3310 dumbphone, Nokia announced a trio of affordable phones earlier this year. Sporting Gorilla Glass 5 screens and running on Android's Nougat, the phones will be available locally starting from $249.

Mercy is Overwatch's most straightforward healer. While Ana and Lucio are clearly built to mix (and/or boop) it up, Mercy has nothing but a dinky pistol and a dream. Many Overwatch players ridicule offence-minded "Battle Mercys" because they get slaughtered and they waste precious healing time. Perhaps, though, people are looking at the innocent angel on Overwatch's shoulder the wrong way.

The two biggest names in gaming are gearing up for a heated head-to-head battle in the lead-up to Christmas.

In one corner is Microsoft with the 4K-enabled Xbox One X. That goes up against Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro which launched last year, and while Sony has undoubtedly come out on top in terms of number of consoles sold so far this hardware generation, Microsoft will soon have the most powerful machine.

Today on Highlight Reel we have Murphy's Law, car crashes and Rainbow 6 surprises!

Secret World Legends launches today, a free-to-play reimagining of Funcom's 2012 Lovecraftian MMO The Secret World. Secret World Legends streamlines a lot of the game's core systems to make it more action-oriented and player-friendly. These changes let the story, always the game's best feature, take center stage.

The Mini SNES was only available from EB Games this morning when Nintendo announced their new system to the world. But good news - they're not the only retailer, which is handy considering the console won't be available after 2017.

GTA 5 fans have looked for aliens endlessly since the launch of the game, all to no avail. After years of fruitless searching, fans have finally started solving a three-year-old mystery involving an alien egg in the GTA V code.

Ever wondered what Harry Potter would do if he wasn’t the Chosen One, and just worked in a coffee shop? Or if Iris West was the one struck by lightning instead of her fiancé? Or maybe Luke Skywalker decided to take after his mother and solve problems diplomatically, while his more emotional sister took up her father’s lightsaber? Then try the world of fan-fiction - an online community fanbase that is built on this idea of what-ifs.

So we know what 21 games will ship on the Super Nintendo Classic, including the surprise announcement of Star Fox 2. But for all of the games that the system ships with, Nintendo could have included so much more. Here's 10 games from the company's enormous back catalogue that belong on Nintendo's latest retro console.

Did you guess Descent for yesterday's ScribbleTaku? Puppylicks did, and within five minutes no less. I specifically took the crosshairs from Descent 2, although they're weapon dependent and you can find equivalents in all three of the games. There's probably something similar in Overload too, the game some of the original Descent devs are working on.

Anyway, new game time. Let's see if this triggers any memories for you.

The latest in the Boss Fight Books series, available tomorrow, is Kingdom Hearts II by veteran games writer Alexa Ray Corriea. In the exclusive chapter excerpt below, she discusses one of the most intriguing aspects of the Square-Disney crossover's plot: eschewing boy-girl romance in favour of themes of male intimacy.

Once a week, for the past eight-odd years, I overhear it: "It's GIF, not JIF." "Actually, it's officially JIF." If the arguers are educated in the subject, they will rattle through their supporting arguments: It's JIF because its inventor says so and it's like "giraffe;" it's GIF because it stands for "graphics" and it's like "gift."