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…
Welcome back to the Wire Weekly, where I, Ben “literally cannot recall a time in his life where he didn’t know what a Pikachu was” Fruzzetti, run through the week’s assortment of Nintendo news with what could charitably be referred to as wit, sarcasm, and personality. There’s one bit of…
Tower defense is a genre of game that I’ve never had a lot of experience with. Besides whatever tower defense games I first played on my iPod Touch ten years ago, my only time spent with this type of game was a quick few days with Pokémon Tower Defense in…
Nearly a decade ago, a little game called Minecraft was released. In that span of ten years, that “little game” became mega-blocky powerhouse series filled with creativity. From humble beginnings of crafting your own world, to now reading and interacting with established characters and storylines — you can’t deny Minecraft’s…
A breath of fresh air is about to hit one of my favorite fighters in recent memory, with BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle getting its long-awaited update to Version 1.5. This’ll get the game in line with the recently dropped Japanese arcade release, offering new balance tweaks and opening the door…
Japan may be grounding things with a Splatfest based on their professional baseball league, but US Splatoon 2 players gotta start thinking a little more fantastical. The theme for our next Fest has been revealed and it wants to know what super power players want: Time Travel or Teleportation? …
When Tetris 99 saw a surprise launch earlier this year, it became an instant, and addictive, hit, but it’s always been a little light on content. Thankfully, Nintendo has remedied that with the surprise launch of a $9.99 “Big Block DLC” pack, which includes various offline modes including CPU battles…
When it comes to the technical side of games, there’s basically nobody more on top of things than the folks over at Digital Foundry — they continue to provide all the details and nuances on specs you could ever need. And now, they’ve made a revelatory discovery of Switch hardware…
20 years is quite a long time in “video game” years, as new and improved technology is always being made and tinkered with. Which is why whenever a game from childhood is given a remastered makeover, it’s exciting to see what else is being done — beyond graphics. Not all…
It’s May 9th, or 5/9, and in Japanese you can read that as “Go-Ku.” Taking this serendipitous occasion and running with it, Bandai Namco has shared a special Dragon Ball FighterZ video that focuses on the Saiyan raised on Earth, ally to good, Son Goku! See his journey recreated; taking…
We knew it was coming and now it’s official – Nintendo is returning to E3, and its schedule is pretty much unchanged from the past few years. We have a couple days worth of tournaments, followed by a Nintendo Direct on the morning of Tuesday, June 11th, which leads into…
Over the years and regions we’ve had some serious Splatfests on our hands. We saw multiple Sanrio characters battle it out in Japan via Splatoon 2, Callie and Marie tried to settle the Pokemon Red vs. Blue debate that’s been running since the ’90s, but now a new and older…
On Twitter, the big boss of Mortal Kombat, Ed Boon, said that the Switch version of Mortal Kombat 11 will be receiving an update “this week (Friday) or early next week” to bring it to parity of the other versions of the game. The details of the update, as far…
