When looking back at JRPGs and their communities over the years, a concern that will come up time and time again is localization. Oftentimes, especially in the past, whether or not a new game would see release outside of Japan felt like a coinflip. Ys X: Nordics, the latest entry…
It’s been roughly 15 years since I last played Madden, about the same amount of time since I last played football in real life, actually. I played football for a big chunk of my youth, and even declined an opportunity to play junior college football to focus on my grades….
In a new interview posted by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier today, the noted industry pundit had a chance to talk with Team Cherry ahead of the announcement of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date. As many have been wondering for the better part of a decade, why did Silksong take seven years…
Sonic’s become known for some high quality 2D animations in recent years, and the latest is here – Sonic Superstars: Trio of Trouble highlights the upcoming 4-person platformer by showing who Sonic and his buddies will be facing off against. Directed by Evan Stanley and co-directed by Tyson Hesse, the…
Mortal Kombat 1 just released, and it’s gotten some very good reviews… on most consoles. While lacking in coverage compared to the PS5 and Xbox Seris X|S, the Nintendo Switch version has received huge pushback for its performance issues, with a 4/10 Nintendo Life review citing “frame rate issues, big…
Last year Netflix and Capcom announced that another of the latters gaming series would be heading to the streaming platform, although it’s one that’s a little more obscure! The Sengoku-period survival horror Onimusha will be adapted with an anime series directed by the critically acclaimed Takeshi Miike, known for Ichi…
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon released on the 3DS, a system with a 240p resolution. The Nintendo Switch is a system with a resolution of 720p in handheld mode, 1080p while docked. You can imagine, then, that the graphical upgrade for Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD is a sizable one, as GameXplain…
Square Enix announced in May 2021 that they were remaking the all-time classic Dragon Quest III with HD-2D graphics, the high fidelity sprite work and lighting style found in games like Octopath Traveler and Triangle Strategy (and their own remake of Live A Live). Now over two years later, how’s…
No longer are you doomed to eat burgers without acquiring some cool new Pokémon cards to battle with – Pokémon TCG: Match Battle is back in McDonald’s Happy Meals for the next month, featuring four-card TCG packs that you can pick up and play with ease. pika pika pic.twitter.com/89ckh6mkP2…
Big news is currently dropping for Microsoft’s Xbox brand with various documents presented to the FTC for its on-going Activision acquisition getting leaked in full across the internet. As part of this leak we have an email chain from Xbox chief Phil Spencer which discusses how Nintendo would be “THE…
Last Tuesday, Unity – one of the most ubiquitous and well known engines for making games out there – announced a new pricing model that would take effect on January 1st of 2024. The pricing model would have been based on a per-install system – basically, every time a game…
Mario and his pals may be paper-thin, but there’s nothing flimsy about the graphical overhaul in the Nintendo Switch remaster of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. When last week’s Nintendo Direct presentation ended with the welcome return of the GameCube classic, we all got a glimpse of just how bright,…
It’s not hard these days to find a portable game console, between Nintendo’s own Switch, the SteamDeck (among many others like it), and Sony’s abandoned PS Vita (RIP), gaming on the go has never been easier, but that hasn’t stopped dedicated individuals from exploring other ways to game while out…
Fire Emblem Heroes just hit a huge milestone with the release of its latest banner – there are now 1,000 Heroes that players can summon in the game. To celebrate, My Nintendo has started a sweepstakes to give away ten sets of acrylic standees featuring various Heroes from Fire Emblem…
As recent rumors about the Nintendo Switch successor rage, some of the most verifiable info about it has arrived courtesy of the FTC v. Microsoft case concerning Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision (which the FTC is currently appealing). Internal Activision emails reveal that executives met with Nintendo in December 2022 to…
