Mouse in the house. Annapurna Interactive has today announced that Furcula’s weird roguelike-meets-creature collector Morsels will be landing on Switch on 18th November. This one briefly popped up in the August 2024 Indie World showcase, where it was accompanied by a ‘February 2025’ release date. That wasn’t meant to be (obviously), but it’s nice to…
We know now that Sephiroth from the revered Final Fantasy VII will be the next downloadable character in the super-fun Super Smash Bros Ultimate on the Nintendo Switch. To further illustrate how Sephiroth will play in the brawler, Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai, will be hosting Mr. Sakurai Presents “Sephiroth” The Japanese Twitter account…
Better start practicing again Office workers have been playing Solitaire in Windows for the past 25 years as a means of getting through the day. Hard to believe, isn’t it? To celebrate Solitaire’s 25-year anniversary on Windows, Microsoft is holding a pair of tournaments — one for employees and a second one for everyone else…
Famitsu has released some Japanese sales data on Pokemon Sword and Shield, as well as the Nintendo Switch family of consoles. The former is for the new generation of Pokemon’s first 3 days of availability, between November 15th and November 17th. The latter applies to the time period between November 11th and November 17th. Firstly,…
New HoriZ-Aons. We’ve (read: this writer) has been banging on about a Pokémon life sim for ages, and today, our wish has finally come true. Pokémon Pokopia was announced during today’s Nintendo Direct; it’s got a pastel aesthetic and blocky structures, a little bit like Minecraft or Dragon Quest Builders, but with a cosy little…
Gotta answer ’em all! It’s that time of year again folks. We would love to ask you some questions and would greatly appreciate it if you could take the time to respond to our anonymous survey. Why is this important to us? Our websites survive mainly due to those who choose to advertise their games…
Video Games — Auction Preview by Brett Weiss I’ve been a cataloger here at Heritage Auctions for two years, but this month marks the first time we’ve offered the Super Nintendo version of Mr. Do!, my favorite video game of all time. There are only four copies on Wata’s June 2023 population report, and the…
Black Mirror Season 7 has begun streaming on Netflix, and one of its episodes, “Plaything,” is about a sim game from the 1990s where players care for little critters in the wild and teach them to survive on their own. The fictional game is called Thronglets, and guess what? It’s not so fictional after all….
“Something had to give”. The Norwich-based arcade bar run by retro gaming YouTube Peter “Nostalgia Nerd” Leigh has closed, it has been confirmed. Barcadia launched in 2023 via a crowdfunding campaign, aiming to offer a range of “nostalgia provoking machines”, “delicious” cocktails and “retro snack baskets”, according to the venue’s official site. “There is no…
California has adopted a bill that requires operating systems to ask for a user’s age or date of birth during setup. The bill, which will become enforced legislation from January 1, 2027, says an OS should use this to determine the availability of applications in a storefront and share this information with any developer that…