“not only Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda”. Nintendo designer and legend Shigeru Miyamoto says he wants to expand Nintendo’s IP outside of video games to include “new characters” beyond Mario and Zelda. Speaking at Nintendo’s recent investor Q&A (the official the English translation has now been published), one of the 19 questions put…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp was recently interviewed by CNBC, where he gave an impassioned decry that the current AI market is not working, urged other panellists to call up CEOs and test his hypothesis, and made clear that his nervous energy was not in any way related to any substance usage. Yeah, it’s a strange…
Funky fresh hardware sports a price tag that makes my eyes water—so some companies are considering firing up production on older product lines again. Rumours suggest that Intel is next. Apparently, Intel plans to increase supply of its 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th generation CPUs—that’s everything from 2020’s Comet Lake up to the latest 2023 iteration…
“My birthday gift to the community”. This week brought us news that Sony is ending production of optical discs for its PlayStation 5 console and has confirmed that it will be the last machine it makes with a disc drive. With Microsoft widely expected to follow suit with its next Xbox, it leaves Nintendo as…
Circana’s Mat Piscatella says “Nintendo is going to be Nintendo”. Sony’s announcement this week it would end PlayStation disc-based releases by 2028 has unsurprisingly raised questions about the future of physical games media on other console platforms. If you are wondering about Nintendo’s position in this space, Circana senior director and video game industry advisor…
The retro-anime adventure launches this September. This week, Sony surprised the gaming space when it announced PlayStation’s disc-based physical releases would end by 2028. It has ignited all sorts of discussions about the future of physical media in the gaming space, and it’s also resulted in some developers taking this opportunity to promote hard copies…
Placeholders or something more? New information about the third and final part in Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy has potentially surfaced. Listings on the Epic Store (tracked by the third-party tool EpicDB) reference nine separate DLC, a story expansion pass, premium editions of the game and pre-order bonuses: Read the full article on…
Look, I’m not saying I’m not amazed that games have reached this era of visual hyperrealism where I can count the individual hairs in your character’s nose. It’s an impressive feat, no doubt. But I’m still one of those people firmly in the camp of stylized and exaggerated over indistinguishably lifelike and authentic. More quizzes!…
Splashing news. Ahead of the launch of Splatoon Raiders on the Switch 2 later this month, an in-store demo for the game has gone live. If you happen to be located in the US or Canada, and are near a Best Buy, Walmart, Target or GameStop, you’ll be able to go hands-on with the new…