Split Fiction, the latest co-op multiplayer game by developer Hazelight, launched on March 6th to critical acclaim. Shortly after launch, it was rumored that a movie adaptation was in the works for the game and we’ve now received confirmation on its existence, along with one of the stars as well…
As the “Year of Eevee” celebration continues, more and more merchandise centered around the beloved Evolution Pokémon continues to be revealed. Just last week a brand-new life-size Eevee plush was shown off, but that wasn’t to be all they had in store. A new batch of life-size plushies have been…
In a series of posts over on Twitter, former Capcom composer Masakazu Sugimori has suggested that Ace Attorney would not have become a franchise if it were released in the current gaming industry. As he explains, the initial sales numbers were so low that any modern publisher would have completely…
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a game that’s sold more than a few copies. Almost 50 million, to be exact. Most of those sales have come from the United States, but it would be mistaken to say it’s a low seller elsewhere. And in Japan, it’s just crossed a large…
Surely you’ve had the feeling before of playing a game and going “man, this would be such a cool anime.” Well, Japanese publication Anime! Anime! asked its fans which anime adaptations of popular video games they’d like to see in 2023 and beyond, and the poll results show some big…
It’s been quite a couple of months for Sonic co-creator and notorious curmudgeon Yuji Naka. In November, he got arrested for insider trading involving a mobile installment of a popular Square Enix franchise. And then earlier this month… he got arrested. Again. For the exact same crime. And now, less…
The news broke a few weeks back that after 25 years, Ash Ketchum, the world’s oldest ten year old, would be retiring from the spotlight. Ash, Pikachu and the others are bowing out to make room for a new generation of characters, which brings an impressive run for the character…
With how sizeable the Switch’s Arcade Archives selection is already it can be easy to forget what games haven’t appeared yet. Apparently, Taito’s classic arcade platformer Bubble Bobble has been a no-show all this time, despite it being perfectly suited to co-op Joy-Con play! Thankfully Hamster Corporation has remedied that…
2022 has been a rather big year for Capcom, with new Resident Evil reveals, a Battle Network collection finally being announced, Monster Hunter Rise getting expanded upon, and much more besides. Now the company is asking fans to have their say with an all-new End of the Year Survey. Questions…
Ah, Switch Pro rumors. Like a slasher villain, they just never die. While most people moved on with the release of the nicer but not “pro” Switch OLED Model last year, the fire still burns in some. But the latest whispers on the rumor mill are of a different variety…
Despite it being less than six months until the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, there’s a great deal yet we don’t know about the game, having to rely on the smallest of details to scrap together information. And here’s another one of those – a…
2023 is just a few days away, which means that the time for year-end roundups and statistics. And Nintendo is no different – after releasing a tool for us all to reflect on our own playtimes throughout the year, the company has also released its ranking of eShop titles by…
Games preservationists are always working tirelessly to document every detail of development history, down to the minutest grain. Sometimes their findings are relatively humble or even plain. And sometimes there’s just a little nugget of intrigue buried within. Take the latest (or rather, earliest) Nintendo DS prototype discovered, Ver 0.40615…
Masahiro Sakurai is a busy guy. After spending decades making video games, and basically 9 years straight working on just Super Smash Bros., he dedicates most of his time to a YouTube channel where he uploads 2 to 3 videos a week talking about game development. The legendary director recently…
The time for gift-giving may be just about over, but that doesn’t mean the flow of consumer goods has stopped anytime soon. Build-A-Bear Workshop has released yet another Pokėmon plushie in its long line of collaborations, and this is yet another Eeveelution – the final one, in fact (unless/until The…
