The Embracer Group has announced today that they have entered into a merger with Gearbox. This large deal is worth a hefty $1.3 billion and is set to close within three months. Gearbox is best known for the popular loot shooter Borderlands series which has shifted far past 45 million copies in total. Borderlands Legacy…
The latest edition of Weekly Famitsu is now available to subscribers in Japan. This week’s edition contains the first published review for the upcoming highly-anticipated Nintendo Switch title Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury. One of the Famitsu reviewers awarded the game a perfect ten and two of them awarded it a nine and…
Respawn Entertainment and EA have announced today that Apex Legends will finally arrive on the Nintendo Switch system on Tuesday, 9th March, The port has been developed by the revered Panic Button, who have developed a number of high profile ports for the Switch including DOOM Eternal and the free-to-play title Warfare. Apex Legends for…
Nintendo is known to have very strange company policies, and this seems to be no exception. According to US comedian Adam Conover on The Serf Times podcast and later relayed by Eurogamer, Nintendo had canceled multiple projects after one of them, a live-action Zelda series for Netflix, had leaked. Not only did Nintendo cancel the…
Koei Tecmo has announced this afternoon that they are bringing the Atelier Mysterious Trilogy Deluxe Pack to the Nintendo Switch system. The Deluxe Pack of Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey includes of all the 2016 RPG’s downloadable content as well as a brand new episode for Atelier Sophie DX plus a new…
Netflix confirmed yesterday that it is producing a new 3D animation for the Sonic the Hedgehog series. While the company didn’t disclose very much information about the upcoming animation we now know who one of the writers of the series is and it is Justin Peniston. Mr Peniston was one of the writers for the…
During the recently announced Nintendo financials for the third quarter of the current fiscal year it was revealed that Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield for the Nintendo Switch have now sold over 20 million units. This means that Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield are the first mainline games to sell over 20 million since Pokemon…
Developer and tech enthusiast Thomasnet_mc has informed Nintendo fans on Twitter that the company is in the process of updating its NEX multiplayer server system, which the company has been using for the past eighteen years. The NEX system is going to be switched over to the newer NPLN system. He notes that it is…
From today, you can get your hands on some Nintendo-themed toys from participating Burger King stores in North America. From a ‘Metal Mario’ Kart, to the iconic green squid from Splatoon, there’s a total of six toys available from a King Jr Meal. Nintendo and Burger King are also offering folk the chance to win…
It’s a new month and that means there are some new bugs, critters and fish coming to the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch. Admittedly, it’s a bit of a quiet month this February as the northern hemisphere is getting only one new bug and that’s the Tiger Beetle. However, the southern…