Mining for data. A new survey conducted by Japanese variety show Ariyoshiiieeeee! – Oh yeah! Wanna play games at your place now? has revealed Japan’s favourite video games, both overall and by age rating, and while the likes of Mario, Splatoon, Pokémon, Zelda, Animal Crossing, and Dragon Quest all make frequent appearances, none of them […]
Risk it all in August. WayForward has given us a Switch release date for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, the once-cancelled GBA sequel to the original Shantae game. Coming to Switch on 19th August 2025 — a few months after some fans got hold of a GBA cartridge with the game on it from Limited Run […]
Love persists. We had a lot of respect for Date Everything when it arrived on Switch earlier this year. This bonkers dating sim boasted a monster voice cast with portfolios spanning Final Fantasy, Persona, Fire Emblem and more, but it was let down by some heartbreaking performance issues. Fortunately, the latest Switch update — which […]
“Profits skyrocketed with the switch from cartridges to discs”. Former Capcom and Street Fighter II producer Yoshiki Okamoto has been sharing insights into his time working on games for the NES / Famicom over on his YouTube channel, and it gives us an interesting glimpse at game development at the time. Translated by Automaton Media, […]
Well, howdy. There’s a new Nintendo Direct coming very soon, and it’s a Partner Showcase, which means it’s time for third parties to shine. Since launch, we’ve seen some big hitters from publishers like Capcom (Street Fighter 6), CD Projekt (Cyberpunk), and SEGA (Yakuza 0), but despite a very solid lineup at launch, you get […]
Fusion system detailed. Marvelous has released two brand new gameplay videos for its upcoming sci-fi mech action game sequel, Daemon x Machina: Titanic Scion. The pair of trailers covers the action RPG’s fusion system alongside further info on its heavy armour sets. And it looks like the fusion system in particular — which essentially expands […]
H-uh-Oh. Overnight, The Pokémon Company was hit by allegations of plagiarism ahead of the release of the new Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket expansion, Wisdom of Sea and Sky. And today, with the release of the expansion, TPC has pulled the card — plus one other card — in question. In a statement issued on […]
Post was quickly removed. We’re all on tenterhooks awaiting news of a Nintendo Direct that may never arrive , and publisher NIS has only upped the speculation after it accidentally lifted the lid on a new Switch 2 game before swiftly deleting the announcement post. As brought to our attention on the r/GamingLeaksAndRumours Reddit forum […]
Here’s what’s included. Nintendo’s been updating games non-stop since the Switch 2 arrived in June and following multiple other updates this week, we’ve now got another patch for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury. This bumps this Switch title up to Version 1.2.1 and follows on from a Switch 2 game update at the […]
Looking good. Nintendo has been busy this week with all sorts of updates, and yesterday it released Mario Paint for Switch Online’s Super Nintendo app. Read the full article on nintendolife.com