As it expands into mobile gaming with a major IP. In recent years, Nintendo has been able to grow its brand and expand its IP with mobile game apps. To date, the cumulative number of unique downloads for Nintendo apps has now surpassed 950 million, and it’s banked a lot of coin in that time….
“Demonschool is 100% human made”. GenAI seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue at the moment, and a recent flashpoint involves Embark’s ARC Raiders, which uses an AI-based text-to-speech system to generate spoken dialogue trained on the voices of human actors. Embark caught some flak for this approach (which was also used in…
SteamCube. Rumours have been rumbling about Valve — the Washington-based developer responsible for creating Steam, but for also bringing us some of the best games ever made such as Half-Life, Portal, and Counter Strike — announcing some brand new hardware for a few days now. And earlier today, multiple press outlets have revealed they’ve gone…
The Evil Empire expands. We’ve assumed that it would be coming our way for some time now, but Dead Cells developer Evil Empire has today finally given its slick roguelike, The Rogue Prince of Persia, a Switch release date. This one will be arriving on the eShop (for both Switch and Switch 2) on 16th…
Majima magic. It only feels like yesterday that Yakuza Kiwami finally made its way onto the Switch, and yet here we are with a beefed-up Switch 2 version. This new release is effectively the same game, but Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have taken advantage of the newer console’s specs for a much smoother,…
And it’s out now! It feels like just yesterday that Revolution Software’s classic point-and-click adventure, Broken Sword – Shadow of the Templars, was ‘reforged’ on Switch 1. It was, in fact, a year ago (almost to the day), but that hasn’t stopped the studio’s reforging efforts. The reforged has been reforged, you could say, as…
What did you Odys-see? Nintendo has revealed our first proper look at The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, with a trailer that lasts all of 2:25. Nope, that’s not very long, but there are a lot of details crammed in there. To make sure you caught all of the little touches, we’ve assembled the following rundown…
Jump up, movie star. As a part of the 2024 MAR10 Day celebrations, Nintendo and Illumination announced that a “new animated film based on the world of the Super Mario Bros. series” is on the way. A little over a year later, the studios lifted the lid on its title: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie….
Out of this world. Nintendo and Illumination have revealed the first proper trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and it’s a galactic banger. We get our first look at Bowser Jr. and Rosaline, plus a whole bunch of new locations based on Super Mario Galaxy and… Odyssey? Yep, there’s representation from both games here….
Kiwami-likey. Sega and developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio are seemingly on a mission to bring as many Yakuza games to the Switch 2 in as short a time span as possible. With Kiwami and Kiwami 2 joining Yakuza 0: Director’s Cut, we’re already at three within five months of the console’s release. Kiwami 3 &…