Always bet on red. After a brief delay, we have got our first look at this week’s UK boxed charts and it has been a good one for Nintendo’s newest remaster. Yes, Mario vs. Donkey Kong has climbed the ladder in its debut week, beating the rest of the competition to grab the gold. The…
A surprise short sequel to 2022 puzzle game about modern art has dropped: Please, Touch the Artwork 2 is out now on Steam, and it’s free to boot. Where the first was a puzzle game, this one’s a hidden object adventure about a skeleton collecting items for weirdos that live inside paintings. Please, Touch the…
Plane sailing. When Nintendo released the utterly brilliant WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! on the GBA back in 2003, it not only kickstarted a franchise which continues to this very day, but it also included a timesink that lived way beyond the lifespan of that particular game: Paper Plane. This unlockable minigame tasked you with guiding…
There aren’t many stories in the world of technology that could easily make it as a plot for a tense spy-thriller movie, but this one sure has all the right hallmarks for one. Last month, the US Justice Department carried out an authorised operation in which it neutralised a botnet, comprising hundreds of routers in…
After attracting nearly $35 million in an initial round of funding and another $2.3 million on Kickstarter, Stormgate developer Frost Giant Studios is looking to raise even more money, this time by inviting supporters to invest in the company in an upcoming “crowd-equity campaign.” The investment campaign isn’t set to kick off in full until…
Is there enough in the tank to coast through 2024? Reports that Nintendo’s unannounced Switch successor may be subject to a behind-the-scenes delay suggest that the current console might have yet another Holiday season all to itself. In March, Nintendo Switch will enter its eighth year, and scuttlebutt from industry sources had previously pegged 2024…
Ever since E3 was shattered into a million pieces by the pandemic, publishers have been sprinkling their own showcases across the calendar to highlight their new games. These days we can barely go three weeks without an event from Microsoft or Sony or, indeed, Nacon, which is bringing back its Connect event at the end…
I open my eyes in the morning and check my phone. Hundreds of Discord notifications. It happened again. A late-night decision to try out a new game, one which took place while I was soundly asleep—I need my eight hours or I will wither and die—and now I have the daunting task of trying to…
Rolling in yen. According to new data from Toyo Keizai, an economics magazine company based in Tokyo, Japan, Nintendo is currently the richest company in the country. As spotted by Install Base forums and X user Pierre485, Nintendo currently boasts a cash and cash equivalent value of roughly $11.44 billion when converted from Japanese yen….
From the perspective of its director/co-designer Hal Barwood. Hal Barwood has had a fascinating career. Not only did he pen the script for Steven Spielberg’s first-ever motion picture film The Sugarland Express and the 1981 dark fantasy film Dragonslayer (along with his writing partner Matthew Robbins), but he has also had a fairly lengthy career…