Hi-yaaah! Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl, everyone! In last week’s battle, we looked at the N64 classic, Mario Kart 64. And goodness folks, it really wasn’t a close one, huh? North America and Europe absolutely killed it with 88% of the vote; surely one of the most resounding victories we’ve ever seen!…
A “Walmart exclusive”. Last Mario Day, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed a new Mario Bros. animated movie was on the way and would be arriving in 2026. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Cut straight to the best bit by clicking through to the answer to the January 26 (1317) Wordle. If that’s all a bit too much all at once for a Sunday puzzle session, feel free to sit a while with our hint for today’s game instead, designed to help without handing you today’s winning word…
It’s Yamper! The Build-A-Bear plush Pokémon line continues to grow with the arrival of the Electric-type Yamper. This Pokémon was first sighted in the Galar Region during the Sword and Shield generation. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Daniel Erickson, CCO of Thought Pennies studio, recently announced that staff had been laid off and an upcoming game canceled. “Over the last three years at Thought Pennies we built something amazing”, he wrote on LinkedIn. “We never missed a milestone, our feedback was great, our partnerships strong. We went from two people and a…
On January 23, Atari put out a press release disavowing “RealPongCoin” or “$PONG,” a new crypto meme coin whose account on X, “The Everything App,” was launched that same day. Though the company was once poised to go all-in on crypto and NFTs itself, Atari has since shuttered that side of the business and refocused…
I don’t trust Square Enix to program worthwhile mouse-and-keyboard controls so I don’t know which key fast-forward is assigned to, but I can tell you it’s the right trigger on my controller, and that finishing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has probably halved the lifespan of that trigger. Obviously I keep it held in whenever Chadley…
In a January 24 interview with NPR’s All Things Considered, Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone discussed his debut game’s legacy nine years on, including his famous propensity for interrupting development on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier to put out patches and new content for his 2016 farming RPG. “I do take in a lot of…
While the big Vermintide 2 news last year was the addition of PVP in Versus mode, the PVE side of things is still being catered for. Its latest addition is Verminous Dreams, a campaign of linked maps that pits the Ubersreik Five against their old enemies the skaven once again. The first two of its…
“Whilst stocks last”. The Evercade range has grown considerably during the past 12 months, with new cartridges and hardware hitting store shelves at a rapid pace during 2024. We’ve seen Tomb Raider, Soul Reaver and the Evercade Alpha, but it wasn’t all positive news—we were also informed that the retail price of Evercade carts would…