If you’re anything like me, you’ll have always longed to burgle some Victorian idiot’s house, but due to the cruel ravages of linear timelines, you’ve been forever denied the opportunity of that joyful, joyful experience. The sheer misfortune of being born in the wrong century means we’ll never get to see a marvellously-mustachioed gentleman slowly…
Nintendo has recently uploaded a handy video for those who are looking for some inspiration for building courses for Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit on Nintendo Switch. In our ‘Test Drive’ feature, we came away quite impressed with the game but mentioned that creating courses is where the real fun is; the more you put…
Time flies when you’re all-star brawling. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans around the world have this week taken to social media and other parts of the internet to celebrate the game’s sixth anniversary. This entry was originally released exclusively for the Switch on 7th December 2018 and was followed up with multiple major game updates…
New arenas! New weapons! And an all-new season mode! If you’re a fan of professional wrestling, you’ve probably come across the name ECW (or “Extreme Championship Wrestling”) in the past. The Philadelphia-based promotion was notorious in the ’90s and early 2000s for its hardcore style of wrestling, featuring everything from no-rope-barbed-wire matches to flaming table…
News has emerged this morning from Bloomberg that Chinese firm Tencent is buying a 20 percent stake in Japanese developer Marvelous. Marvelous is behind recent hits like Daemon X Machina and Story of Seasons on Nintendo Switch. The move will give Marvelous more company capital to develop its game franchises. This in turn will boost…
As much as I enjoy a gacha pull as a little treat, I’m not overly jazzed about how inescapable gambling mechanics have become in games—or anywhere else, for that matter. So-called prediction markets are also becoming increasingly popular, and one Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly leveraging insider information to place bets on Polymarket,…
Target is running a promotion for Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Nintendo Switch where you can nab a free premium Animal Crossing-themed journal if you buy the game from the retailer on the 1st November. The journal is exclusive to Target and it would make a great addition for fans of Animal Crossing. The title…
In a recent interview with MrMattyPlays, former BioWare producer Mark Darrah talked about how player expectations for Dragon Age 2 as a full sequel to Dragon Age: Origins may have damaged the more experimental RPG’s reception at launch. “In terms of the project I was most proud of, in a lot of ways I would…
“The share price looks overvalued”. The much-rumoured Switch successor that Nintendo fans and investors alike are eager to see officially revealed will struggle to match the current console’s overall hardware sales, according to analysts quoted in a new Bloomberg report (thanks, GoNintendo) Anticipation for the system has sent shares of the company to a record…
Tencent, one of the world’s largest videogame publishers, is also a Chinese military company, the US Department of Defense claims. Which has come as something of a surprise to the conglomerate, which has called the designation a “misunderstanding”. The DoD’s list of Chinese military companies is updated annually, and Tencent is among the new batch…