The Wii was a phenomenal success gaining a foothold in the mainstream and was a great comeback for the Kyoto-based company after the beloved GameCube. Nintendo has announced today in Japan that it will no longer be servicing the original Wii which launched back in 2006. The notice put out by Nintendo states that is…
It’s no lie that the gaming industry in recent years has been crushing. You can do a good job, a bad job, a medium job—it doesn’t matter, the sword of Damocles can plunge at any moment. I won’t go into my list of examples, partially because I’ve shared them before, but also because I’ve got…
Sonic 3 was released in North America on February 2nd. 30 years ago, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was officially released for the Sega Genesis in North America (on February 2nd, 1994), with Sega hijacking the Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to mark the special occasion. The sequel, developed by Sega Technical Institute in the…
World of Warcraft‘s changing in a big way—announced a while back, Blizzard’s decided that you shouldn’t have to download a huge list of UI mods (addons) just to play at a competitive level with others, and will kneecap the ones related to combat in this week’s patch. Depending on when you’re reading this, it might’ve…
A referent interview with Shigeru Miyamoto has been published by Japanese site The Nikkei. In the interview Miyamoto talks a little about the much-loved Mario series and says that he is now trying “to avoid casting Mario too rigidly, giving him freedom to explore different character scenarios.” This a change from the past, but we…
If you know the name ‘Energizer’, there’s a good chance an image of a pink bunny just shot into your brain the second you read the headline. Well, the famous battery brand is now being emblazoned on a productivity laptop, and unsurprisingly, the battery is absolutely massive. As reported by The Verge, three laptops are…
The next project could be “entirely new”. The new Clovers Studio, led by video game industry legend Hideki Kamiya, won’t be limited to “existing IP”. Speaking to Japanese publication GameSpark, Kamiya and his former PlatinumGames colleague Kento Koyama mentioned how just because Clovers was starting with a sequel to Okami, didn’t mean it would necessarily…
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“Finally, I can play the new Assassin’s Creed”. We Nintendo fans felt a bit like that Squidward looking out the window meme when Assassin’s Creed Shadows launched on PC, Xbox and PS5 last week. Sure, a game the size of Ubisoft’s latest was never going to end up on Switch, but that doesn’t mean we…
Purrfect. Atari and Limited Run Games have revealed the full game list for the upcoming Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection for the Nintendo Switch. The full line-up includes eight playable titles, with Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind and Bubsy II playable across multiple ‘platforms’ including Game Boy, SNES, and Sega Genesis. The…