“We want to reboot the project and grow the brand with a long-term perspective”. The multi-generational team behind SNK’s upcoming Metal Slug reboot has been speaking to Japanese news outlet Nikkei about the project. The youngest of the trio interviewed is Metal Slug brand manager Seungju Song, who was born in 1996 – the same…
“If anyone has a good way to legally release this stuff let me know”. The legendary Dragon’s Lair isn’t famous for its gameplay – it was the fact that, back in 1983, it looked worlds apart from the games people were playing in arcades and at home, thanks to the fact that ex-Disney animator Don…
It started small and sensible. A miniature of an ork with one foot on a helmet to give him a more dynamic pose, or a dragon attached to a rocky protrusion to suggest flight. Somewhere in the years since then we lost our way. We went too far. We climbed too boldly and too steep,…
Join Lottie’s Paradise Planning team. Nintendo Music has been updated today with 25 tracks from the Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise soundtrack. This DLC rolled out in 2021 and the album has 43 minutes of songs to listen to. Here’s the full tracklist: Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise Meeting…
Patching island life. Nintendo has today released a new update for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream on the Switch, bumping the game up to Version 1.0.3. This patch resolves a bunch of bugs in the game, and also makes a change to the local play mode, where Mii and other creations can’t be sent this…
Wonderful! First 4 Figures is known for releasing all sorts of Nintendo-themed figures, and the next one on the way is “Elephant Mario” from Super Mario Bros. Wonder. It’s now teased the “standard edition” of this upcoming figure in its latest showcase, and it will be “coming soon”. No price has been revealed just yet,…
Partway through Nightdive’s video about remastering Thief: The Dark Project, producer Daniel Grayshon casually mentions that in the original you pressed 4 to bring up the water arrows and I realized I still remember a bunch of the keybinds for Thief’s arsenal of items. The trusty blackjack was 2, rope arrows were 8, the get-out-of-jail-free…
In its latest videogame-themed, AI-generated meme, the official White House X account has published a Destiny 2 character sheet featuring an unrealistically ripped Donald Trump wielding a Gjallarhorn. “Eyes up, Guardians,” reads the official tweet. In the image itself, a muscular, Duke Nukem-esque Donald Trump wields the United States flag against a backdrop of fighter…
Good news, hunters. To kick off the latest Capcom Spotlight this week, Capcom announced a new Monster Hunter Stories 3 paid DLC side-story focused on Rudy. It’s all about the young Felyne and explores the origin of the “Royal Felyne”, which dates back to the original title Monster Hunter Stories. Here’s a bit from the…
I landed in Vigo, but my luggage didn’t. At Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport my lone carry-on gorged the steel jaws of an Iberia Air Lines baggage sizer stationed like a vigilant sentry at the boarding gate. Common carry-on luggage size, I learned, doesn’t translate universally on all domestic flights. I reluctantly checked my bag. Something…