And discuss Nintendo’s original response. The new “open-world survival and crafting game” Palworld has become insanely popular overnight, with sales surpassing the seven million mark and now supposedly overtaking first-week records of games like Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Of course, there’s also been a lot of debate about this game online – mostly in regards to…
EXS to impress. Japanese developer Frenchbread’s phenomenal anime fighter, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late, impressed the heck out of us when it dropped in its final revised form on Switch back in 2020. Nabbing a 9/10 score in our review, it quickly became one of those very special games that we just straight-up refuse to ever…
“I am extremely humbled”. Koji Kondo, Nintendo’s in-house composer one of the most renowned names in the video game composers industry, is to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, the Academy has announced. Kondo will be honoured during the 27th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards ceremony, which takes place on…
Lament of the Pal gamer. Less than a week out from its launch in Early Access on Steam and Xbox, Palworld has proved itself to be a massive commercial success for developer Pocketpair and has dominated gaming discourse online since the weekend. Switch gamers can’t access it on Nintendo’s console, of course, but with its…
Farewell, friend. Nintendo has announced that online play for Steel Diver: Sub Wars has been permanently discontinued on the 3DS ahead of the full online shutdown on April 8th, 2024 (thanks, Nintendo Everything). Now, the service has technically been offline for a little while now after Nintendo commenced emergency maintenance on September 4th, 2023. According…
Single-player splatting. Well, this is a surprise! Out of the blue, Nintendo has announced that the long-awaited Splatoon 3 ‘Side Order‘ DLC will be coming our way on 22nd February. This one has been a long time coming. The single-player expansion was first announced back in last year’s February Direct, and was given a ‘Spring…
Fibre-wired. Before IO Interactive blew everyone’s socks off with the sublime World of Assassination Trilogy, Hitman: Blood Money was widely considered to be the crown jewel of the stealth franchise. In fact, many consider Blood Money to be the progenitor of World of Assassination; a game that thrives on freedom of choice, offering up a…
Woomy! Nintendo is back with yet another update for the slick squid shooter Splatoon 3. The latest patch brings the game up to ver. 6.1.0 and is available to download today. The focus appears to have been on multiplayer modes and weapon rebalancing this time around, though we will also see changes made to Mincemeat…
Mark your calendars. You know the classic saying, “You wait ages for a bus, then two come at once”? Well, perhaps not, but the point is that less than a full day after ZREO: Second Quest released an orchestral recording of ‘Midna’ from ‘Twilight Symphony’, Nintendo itself has now announced that it will be broadcasting…
Where is my super suit? Outright Games and Hasbro have today announced that the popular cartoon series PJ Masks will be swooping back onto the Switch as PJ Masks Power Heroes: Mighty Alliance steps out of the shadows on 15th March. Following on from 2021’s Heroes of the Night, this side-scrolling adventure game will once…