November 2023
8BitDo Reveals Its New ‘Ultimate C’ Bluetooth Controller, Compatible With Switch
Pre-orders are live. 8BitDo has this week lifted the lid on its new gamepad the ‘Ultimate C Bluetooth Controller’, compatible with Nintendo Switch. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Tetris 99 Scores A Super Mario RPG Event, Unlock A Free Special Theme
A limited-time event starting later this week. Following on from a special Xenoblade Chronicles 3 event, Nintendo has now announced it’s hosting a Super Mario RPG Maximus Cup in its Switch Online battle royale, Tetris 99. This event will start later this week on 9th November and will run until 13th November. Super Mario RPG…
Bandai Namco Ending Sales Of Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! Later This Month
“We kindly ask for your understanding”. We’ve got some sad news for all the ‘Taiko no Tatsujin’ drummers out there today. Bandai Namco has announced it will be discontinuing sales of Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! for the Nintendo Switch on 30th November 2023. The Japanese video game company shared the following message on…
Diablo 4 still has 4 crucial issues to fix before the expansion launches next year
Blizzard may have turned Diablo 4 around in the last month, but there’s still plenty of work to do before the release of its first expansion, Vessel of Hatred. BlizzCon’s Diablo 4 Campfire Chat stream had surprisingly little to say about the action RPG’s major remaining issues: dull itemization and a barren endgame. The Diablo…
One of Embracer’s top executives resigns and announces his own gaming company at the same time
Former Embracer Group chief operating officer Egil Strunke announced on LinkedIn today that he has formally resigned as the company’s chief operating officer—essentially, Embracer’s number-two guy—and that he’s now launching an all-new game company of his own. Strunke’s departure was initially announced in June, a month after the last-minute collapse of a “groundbreaking strategic partnership”…
There’s a cursed way to get a free Game Pass subscription or grind Diablo 4 battle pass tiers: Bing searches
I had no idea that I had Microsoft Rewards points. You probably do, too: You get them by doing Bing searches and other gratuitous Microsoft web activities and can redeem them for things like Amazon gift cards, Diablo 4 battle pass tiers, and PC Game Pass subscriptions. Be warned, though: To get anything good, you…
Elon Musk loses another one: Sony is disabling Twitter integration on PlayStation consoles next week
The great X spiral continued today as Sony revealed on its support site that integration with the social media platform formerly known as Twitter will be disabled on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles next week. “As of November 13, 2023, integration with X (formerly known as Twitter) will no longer function on PlayStation 5…
After Nickmercs reveals gambling is part of his new contract, xQc admits ‘everybody knows I am’ paid to gamble on-stream
Twitch rival Kick, backed by co-founders of the Stake gambling platform, has spent a lot of money on streamers in 2023. The biggest deal by far was a reported $100 million contract for Canadian megastar xQc in January, but it recently signed up FaZe Clan co-owner and popular Call of Duty streamer Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff…
Cities: Skylines 2 boss says there won’t be paid DLC until ‘performance issues are fixed’
Following its launch in 2015, the original Cities: Skylines spawned a surprising number of DLC packs: a whopping 62 in total. But if you’re wondering when Cities: Skyline 2 will start flinging paid DLC your way, you’re in for a bit of a wait. Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen said today that paid content won’t…