The king of January. To help get 2025 underway Nintendo revived its Wii and 3DS title Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Switch. Circana’s executive director and industry analyst Mat Piscatella has now shared US chart data for the month of January – revealing how exactly the game performed on the local charts. Donkey Kong…
Surveys say that today’s youth are more interested in stories about platonic friendships and social groups than romance and sex, and game developers are taking note of that and other trends in teen media consumption. To a crowd of games industry professionals at D.I.C.E. Summit last week, TV executive turned game studio founder Sharon Tal…
Marvel Rivals is a big hit, but there was a time when its very existence was in doubt. That’s according to a new Bloomberg report on developer NetEase and its CEO William Ding, which says that before the game was released there were discussions about cancelling it outright. NetEase has denied the claim. The problem,…
Grand Theft Auto 6 is still on track for a console release in the fall of this year, and a PC version of the game is still firmly in the realm of wishful thinking. So as you can imagine, there was a collective gasp of hope when Corsair Gaming vice president of finance and investor…
A Variety report says character actor Peter Jason, known to gamers as the gruff, put-upon Drill Sergeant Dornan in Fallout 2 and Dizzy in the Gears of War series, has died. Jason was a well-known “that guy” in films and television, with more than 260 credits going back to the 1960s, according to IMDB. He…
Why did you open this article? I told you not to. I begged you not to. Close it now. Go away. Forget you ever saw it. Trust me, you might think you want to watch this pale white “anatomically accurate” robot with no face dangling from wires while it silently thrashes its sinewy limbs around,…
Now available to download on Steam, The Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit’s demo allows AVGN fans to experience two stages from the highly-anticipated title ahead of its Q2 2025 launch Philadelphia, PA – Feb. 21, 2025 –Starting today, AVGN fans can now get an exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming Angry Video Game Nerd 8-Bit. Indie developer…
Kirb your enthusiasm. Whip up a last-minute cake and bring out the candles because we have a big birthday on our hands, folks. HAL Laboratory, the company behind Kirby, the OG Smash Bros., EarthBound and another boatload of beauties that we’ll get to in just a moment, has turned 45 today. Yep, on 21st February…
As has become Friday tradition leading up to the launch of the new life sim Inzoi, its creative director Hyungjun “Kjun” Kim has revealed some more features coming to the game at launch to fans on Discord. This time: Seasons. Oh, and the possibility of your Zois dying of exposure if underdressed. “As we’ve mentioned…
mBarassing. With the Nintendo Switch 2 on the horizon, you might be wondering why a company like Marseille has decided to expand upon its original mClassic dongle with two new variations. Alas, that’s exactly what it’s done, releasing the new mClassic Switch (blue) and mClassic Retro (green) products to complement the red original. Read the…