When I played (and praised) Hello Kitty Island Adventure at its PC launch in January, I quickly noted that it would be a wasted opportunity to not add new areas with more Sanrio characters, on top of the core cast Friendship Island was already home to. After all, there are so many characters in Sanrio’s…
But it will still add games to the voucher catalogue. It’s been incredibly busy in the land of Nintendo recently with the arrival of the Switch 2, and in case you missed the initial announcement in July, Nintendo announced it would be discontinuing Switch Online Game Vouchers. It has now issued another notice about this…
On June 3rd, 1960, Service Games, or SEGA for short, was founded by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart. Although the company is known for video games and its 90s rivalry with Nintendo, SEGA didn’t enter the video game business until the 80s, 20 years after it was founded. SEGA has been celebrating their anniversary on…
The survival game that simply refuses to stop is pushing its next major update back just a bit further. Terraria 1.4.5 has been in the works for over two years, and in a recent State of the Game update, developer Re-Logic said it’s almost complete, but won’t release in 2024. “The work on the final…
There’s been just a little confusion surrounding the upcoming hardcore sci-fi shooter Fragmentary Order, in that while Escape from Tarkov’s creator, Nikita Buyanov, is involved it was not known to what extent, and whether it would have an impact on Tarkov. But this has now been cleared up by Buyanov himself. “Frago (Fragmentary Order) is…
For PC Gamer magazine’s upcoming The Blood of Dawnwalker issue I spoke directly to Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, the developer who is right now best known for being the game director on the legendary fantasy RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Fast forward to 2025, and Tomaszkiewicz is now founder and leader of Rebel Wolves, his own…
Most popular video games eventually end up on platforms other than the one for which they were initially created. Obviously, there are exceptions. You wouldn’t have seen a Super Mario Bros title on a Sega console, just like you weren’t going to see the blue hedgehog on a Nintendo machine. But third-party developers often took…
The first three movies will be free to watch. Back when Pokémon was taking off in the late ’90s, trainers around the globe were treated to the very first anime movie. It stars Ash, Pikachu and their friends, as well as a Pokémon battle “like never before” featuring Mew and Mewtwo. If you’ve never got…
Life’s a beach. Moving your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island from one Switch to another can be a pain. So if you’re someone (like this writer) who’s worried about making the move from Switch to Switch 2, you’re in luck, because it’ll apparently be pretty seamless. In an interview with Polygon, Programming Management Group Senior…
Helldivers 2 did its first crossover event with Killzone, recently, and it didn’t go too well. That’s mostly because it was composed of weirdly expensive items that operated outside of the typical Warbonds system, leading to a community backlash so strong that Arrowhead released the second half for free by way of apology. The roller…