It’s Yamper! The Build-A-Bear plush Pokémon line continues to grow with the arrival of the Electric-type Yamper. This Pokémon was first sighted in the Galar Region during the Sword and Shield generation. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Daniel Erickson, CCO of Thought Pennies studio, recently announced that staff had been laid off and an upcoming game canceled. “Over the last three years at Thought Pennies we built something amazing”, he wrote on LinkedIn. “We never missed a milestone, our feedback was great, our partnerships strong. We went from two people and a…
On January 23, Atari put out a press release disavowing “RealPongCoin” or “$PONG,” a new crypto meme coin whose account on X, “The Everything App,” was launched that same day. Though the company was once poised to go all-in on crypto and NFTs itself, Atari has since shuttered that side of the business and refocused…
I don’t trust Square Enix to program worthwhile mouse-and-keyboard controls so I don’t know which key fast-forward is assigned to, but I can tell you it’s the right trigger on my controller, and that finishing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has probably halved the lifespan of that trigger. Obviously I keep it held in whenever Chadley…
In a January 24 interview with NPR’s All Things Considered, Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone discussed his debut game’s legacy nine years on, including his famous propensity for interrupting development on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier to put out patches and new content for his 2016 farming RPG. “I do take in a lot of…
While the big Vermintide 2 news last year was the addition of PVP in Versus mode, the PVE side of things is still being catered for. Its latest addition is Verminous Dreams, a campaign of linked maps that pits the Ubersreik Five against their old enemies the skaven once again. The first two of its…
“Whilst stocks last”. The Evercade range has grown considerably during the past 12 months, with new cartridges and hardware hitting store shelves at a rapid pace during 2024. We’ve seen Tomb Raider, Soul Reaver and the Evercade Alpha, but it wasn’t all positive news—we were also informed that the retail price of Evercade carts would…
First reported by Massively OP, Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki Yoshida has issued a statement on the game’s forums regarding a player-made plugin that can reveal private account details in-game. Yoshida doesn’t name a particular mod in his post, but he is almost assuredly referring to PlayerScope, a plugin that has drawn criticism from the…
Main ship is designed by Toshiaki Takayama. The incredibly talented team at M2 is working on a new shmup with Compile Heart, it has been announced (thanks, Gematsu). The game’s existence was revealed alongside a bunch of other 2025 projects from Compile Heart, including Todokero! Tatakae! Calamity Angels, Beautiful Girls x Book World x 2D…
Peaked at almost 16,000 concurrent players. The first new entry in Genki’s Shutokō Battle / Tokyo Xtreme Racer series has managed to hit almost 16,000 concurrent players in a single day. Currently available in Early Access on Steam, Tokyo Xtreme Racer is, at the time of writing, hovering over the 11,000 concurrent players mark—not bad…