It only took two decades, but Blizzard is finally adding player housing to World of Warcraft, which’ll be coming with the Midnight expansion. That’s still a ways away, but that hasn’t stopped Blizzard from doing a big ol’ blog post diving into the developer’s core principles for the process, with enough word count to throw…
A paid upgrade pack will also be released. Nintendo this week surprised its fans with the announcement of Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. If you didn’t already catch the video, this paid upgrade pack is not just improved resolution and graphics, but it will also come with mouse controls, a Megaphone…
Demo now available. It may not have been overshadowed by the likes of the Mega Drive / Genesis and PC Engine back in the day when it came to quality shooters, but thanks to the efforts of modern developers, the NES / Famicom is clawing back some respectability in the genre. Last year’s Changeable Guardian…
Konami’s ‘Roc ‘N Rope’ is coming to consoles this week. This week’s Arcade Archives release is Konami’s “wire-action” title Roc ‘N Rope, an early arcade game from the creator of the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series and Bionic Commando and the co-creator of Resident Evil, Tokuro Fujiwara. Released in 1983, Roc ‘N Rope was one of…
Now that we know Intel is reportedly getting ready to challenge AMD’s X3D chips, gamers might start clamoring to buy Intel processors again. And if that happens, they’ll need a cooler, because if there’s one thing a good CPU can do, it’s run hot. To that end, Noctua has just quietly shared some good news…
Focused on expanding anime IP and more. In some more Sony news, the PlayStation maker has this week acquired a 2.5% stake in Bandai Namco. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The Steam Deck won’t be the only handheld gaming PC to run Valve’s open source Linux-based operating system later this month, and it looks like we can expect more devices to come in the near future. In preparation for the launch of Lenovo’s Legion Go S with SteamOS, Valve will start rating games on their…
Go bananas next month. Nintendo has now aired its Donkey Kong Bananza Direct and sure enough, it had quite a few surprises to share. This included the official reveal of Pauline, the return of many of Donkey Kong’s old friends and additional features such as amiibo support and Game Share. Along with this, it looks…
This marks the first-ever port of the rare overseas export. Update : As spotted by Gematsu, the upcoming game Dodonopachi DaiOujou Blissful Death Reincarnation, will also include the first-ever port of the rare international export Dodonpachi III. This is an extremely hard-to-find version of the game (legitimately, at least) that was released between the White…
If you only ever paid attention to its videogame efforts, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Microsoft is constantly trading blows with Apple and Nvidia for the position of ‘biggest corporation on Earth by market cap’. In our neck of the woods, Microsoft is a perpetual third to Nintendo and Sony in the console wars,…