“I’m returning to the original promise with four decades of different experience”. Michael Cranford is a true legend of the video game industry. He’s most famous for designing and programming 1985’s The Bard’s Tale and its 1986 sequel The Bard’s Tale II: The Destiny Knight, and his other credits include Maze Master, Dark Seed and…
Square Enix is currently working on the fourth game. The Kingdom Hearts universe continues to expand, and ahead of the fourth game, Disney Games Group has revealed the series is one of its nine “billion-dollar” franchises. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Launching this September. Nintendo has ramped up its coverage of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave in recent weeks with a Direct and various other announcements and trailers related to the game. Now, the final previews have officially gone live. If you haven’t already seen Jim’s impressions, here’s a quick sample, and you can read more in…
Deposit 3,000 more Pokémon. The Pokémon Company this week announced Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen would be linked with the storage subscription service Pokémon HOME this October. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Sega is celebrating with a free Sonic Adventure 2 gift. Sega shadow-dropped Sonic Frontiers – Definitive Edition on the Switch 2 in June as part of the blue blur’s ongoing 35th anniversary celebrations. Now, in an update, it’s confirmed Sonic Frontiers has officially surpassed five million sales since originally launching on Switch and other platforms…
The Switch 2 exclusive got its first DLC update last week. Following the latest financial update last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have now officially announced Pokémon Pokopia has sold more than five million units globally in “just over four months”. According to the official press release, this includes all of the “physical and…
From the archives: This article originally ran in PC Gamer #326 (UK, January 2019). Something I miss when I play digital games is the tactile side of play. It’s why videogames and board games coexist in my life so beautifully. One allows for complexity beyond what a pen-and-paper can track, and the other offers tokens…
Though clearly a fan of GoldenEye 007 herself, Alyse Knorr has a surprisingly functional depiction of the Bond Team at Rare in the late nineties. Her Boss Fight book, centered as it is around the working environment of the developers, provides a compelling argument that GoldenEye 007 may well have been the last major…
One of the special pleasures in any medieval game is getting to field a trebuchet. In an era where warfare was largely a contest of who can keep people swinging their unfriendliest sticks around the longest before they get hungry enough to leave, there’s a sort of giddiness that comes with being the guy who’s…
Summary Built in collaboration with pro skater Sterre Meijer. The fresh perspective of Goon Squad‘s retro arcade skating experience. How Sterre’s experience and passion helped shape gameplay and authenticity. I’m Dieter from Headup, and together with Goon Squad we created Skatesterre, an arcade skateboarding game that takes you back to the golden era of the…