Nakano TRF will close for good on May 18th. The owners of the legendary Tokyo game center Nakano TRF (Nakano Tokyo Ranking Fighters) announced yesterday that it will be closing its doors for good later this year, in yet another blow to Japan’s struggling arcade scene. Nakano TRF first started operating in 2004, and over…
Henk Rogers’ memoir The Perfect Game—Tetris: From Russia With Love was published this week, the story of one man’s rather incredible journey through the games industry and, in particular, his involvement with Tetris. Outside of the game’s creator, Alexey Pajitnov, Rogers is by far the most important figure in bringing the game as we know…
A couple of months back, the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs, more or less the British Oscars) got bored of figuring out which things were good by itself. Instead, it decided to ask you, the humble gaming public, to divine the most influential game of all time. And boy, you’ve really made a hash of…
A closer look at some Switch 2 gameplay. We’re still recovering from yesterday’s Switch 2 blowout, but Nintendo isn’t hitting the brakes just yet. The first of two Nintendo Treehouse presentations is set to kick off in the next half an hour, promising to run us through some hands-on gameplay from a selection of the…
The World Wide Road. I beat Nintendo of America at Mario Kart World‘s new Knockout Tour. Okay, that’s a tiny bit of a humblebrag, but Knockout Tour is the mode that has finally convinced me that the “99” formula is fun. I know, I’m sorry, you were all right. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Anybody got a 1mm thick piece of cardboard? As part of yesterday’s Ask the Developer Vol. 16 Nintendo Switch 2, the console’s designers were asked a whole bunch of in-depth questions about various technical aspects of their new baby. One of the more interesting parts of the interview was when they discussed redesigning the Switch,…
The Trump administration announced sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs across the globe, ranging from a 10% baseline tariff on most countries to 30% or more on countries like Thailand (36%), Vietnam (46%), Cambodia (49%!), and Taiwan (32%). That last one might ring alarm bells for anyone wise to the global trade in semiconductors, as you’ll know it’s…
2 takes. After years of speculation, Switch 2 finally exists. It’s got a launch date, a price, a bunch of accessories, and — most importantly — a lineup of games large and small, all showcased in an hour-long Direct which answered a lot of questions. But what does the system actually feel like in the…
200 million files and 650 TB have been preserved so far. At this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, a senior build engineer at PlayStation named Garrett Fredley gave a talk, entitled Preserving the Past for the Future: A PlayStation Case Study. The talk, which has since been written up by GamesRadar staff (who were in attendance),…
It also saves the battery life a little. In an interview published during yesterday’s Switch 2-focused Nintendo Direct, the console’s developers answered some questions about how it handles original Switch software, and the responses were interesting. During Ask the Developer Vol. 16: Nintendo Switch 2: Part 4, Takuhiro Dohta and Kouichi Kawamoto were questioned on…