A store in Japan has introduced a unique approach to combatting scalpers, enforcing a mandatory quiz on customers before they can purchase Pokémon cards. A photo shared by X user Ryo Saeba (via Dexerto) showed an announcement board in a Bic Camera store in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. It demands that customers…
Capcom removed an entire chapter from Resident Evil Requiem before its release, the game’s director has revealed. In an interview with Denfaminico Gamer, Koshi Nakanishi recalled how Resident Evil 7: Biohazard had a “Chapter 2” that was scrapped during development, and stated that the exact same thing happened with Requiem….
If you’ve ever shopped for secondhand Nintendo DS games, then this story will sound very similar to you. In a post on ResetEra yesterday, user jokkir wrote that they purchased a copy of Pragmata on Nintendo Switch 2 from an Amazon Warehouse deal. Warehouse deals are when Amazon sells off…
As the Switch enters its seventh year, rumors abound of a successor to the wildly successful handheld/home console hybrid. It seems that every week there’s a new rumor, whether it’s regarding a Switch 2, a Super Switch, or something else entirely. It’s a question on everyone’s mind, and recently Greg…
The Switch is about to enter its seventh year on the market, which is usually around the time a console’s development is in the middle of winding down. A successor has usually been announced, and there’s only a handful of big titles left before the next console comes along. But…
Now that 2023 is here, a lot of sales numbers are coming in for the previous year, and we’ve been seeing a steady stream of positive (and not exactly surprising) news regarding the Nintendo Switch and its games. Not only was the system announced to be the most sold system…
The NPD has arrived with more sales figures, this time for December and thus the entirety of 2022. Let’s take a look at those December figures first, though. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is back in the top 10 at position no. 8, while newcomer Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion…
It’s hard to believe that the Nintendo Switch has entered its 7th year of life this year, and somehow it still remains as popular as ever. Take France for instance — earlier this morning, Nintendo of France President Philippe Lavoué announced some pretty impressive statistics on Switch sales in the…
Octopath Traveler II is just around the corner so it’s a perfect time to reflect on the wide array of 2DHD games Square Enix has released for the Switch. One of the more intriguing experiments with the style was Triangle Strategy, which swapped the traditional JRPG gameplay with tactical battles…
Black Friday has come and gone, and it turns out that the most American tradition of all-time has made its way over to the UK for several years at this point. In terms of video game console sales, the Nintendo Switch was #1, thanks in large part to the trusty…
Video games! They’re still selling. And the folks at Nintendo are still making them. However, businesspeople tend to like to keep track of the games that they’re selling, and so the company has released a mid-fiscal year report (fiscal years begin in April and end the following March, which I…
Video game online subscription services make a lot of money. How much money, exactly? A lot. And we know now roughly how much due to a report from the Brazilian competition regulator and government agency Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (Administrative Council for Economic Defense), or CADE. CADE just approved…
There’s an urban legend that in Japan, Dragon Quest is so popular that they can’t sell it on weekdays, because too many people would stay home from school or work to play it. It’s a fun, if exaggerated way to communicate just how big the series is in Japan. A…
Super Rare Games’ next physical release has been announced! It’s time to defy Lady Luck in the roguelike deck-builder, Dicey Dungeons. Released on the Nintendo Switch in 2020, this month it’s escaping it’s digital-only fate thanks to a 5,000 physical copy run from Limited Run Games. Luck won’t save…
Here’s an interesting tidbit — Nintendo Switch games are the best-selling physical media in the United Kingdom. That’s right, more than vinyls, or CDs, or even PlayStation or Xbox discs (which count both the last generation and the current one) — Switch carts are more profitable than all of them….
