In a rather random bit of news tonight, Nintendo has announced that it has acquired Shiver Entertainment from Embracer Group for an undisclosed amount of money. While most people will not be familiar with the name, Shiver is responsible for the recent Switch ports of both Mortal Kombat 11 and…
Super Mario Maker is an incredible game that feels somehow anti-Nintendo. Released on the Wii U in 2015, I’m still shocked that the Big N gave players most of the tools they needed to create their dream Super Mario levels. The Switch sequel takes things further, but what if Nintendo…
As time goes on and game developers continue to try to push the limits of what’s possible, games are becoming much more impressive. From immersive sound design to beautiful graphics and more, there’s a lot of work that goes into modern games. That all being said, older titles weren’t primitive…
While Fortnite players can currently run about as the likes of Deku and Todoroki, Bandai Namco’s own My Hero Academia-focused spin on the Battle Royale genre is just around the corner. The publisher has confimred that My Hero Ultra Rumble will be available to play for free from September 28th,…
Tokyo Game Show is currently well underway in Japan, bringing with it plenty of playable demos and announcements. One of these came during Xbox’s showcase, though it was later confirmed for other platforms including the Nintendo Switch – Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi. Developed by Italian studio Marslit Games, Altheia…
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s first DLC, The Teal Mask, has been out for approximately a week now, and the developers already have some bug fixes planned. The game has a patch scheduled to drop in the first half of October addressing some of the game’s bugs. 【不具合についてのお知らせ】『ポケットモンスター スカーレット・バイオレット』更新データ（Ver.2.0.1）で発生している以下の不具合について対処を行っており、修正を行ったデータの配信を10月前半までを目処に予定しております。… pic.twitter.com/eDWKFXdW5T…
Saber Interactive has announced that it will no longer be releasing a Nintendo Switch version of the online multiplayer title Evil Dead: The Game. The studio also confirmed that it will no longer be producing further content for the title on other platforms. Servers will remain online for the “foreseeable…
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…
