The Nintendo Switch outsells the NES

The Nintendo Switch outsells the NES

Recent Famitsu sales from Japan have confirmed this week that the mighty Nintendo Switch system has outsold the classic Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo’s latest financial earnings report revealed that the Nintendo Switch had sold 61 million units, which is the same as the Nintendo Entertainment System. However, updated sales figures reveal that it has now…

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From Space: Battling an Extraterrestrial Menace With Xbox Game Pass

Recruits, brace yourselves for an exhilarating new challenge as we proudly present From Space – an action-packed co-op game that will take you and your squad on entirely new adventures where you’ll be defending the globe against an alien invasion. Embark on daring missions across a variety of unique locations, each presenting challenging objectives paired…

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Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise’s dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise is, as Andy Chalk wrote last year, “clearly a game with something to say”. The deckbuilding RPG is particularly interested in the rich and powerful, and getting revenge on the billionaires destroying the world. It’s deeply anti-capitalist and political, but developer Speculative Agency received funding from Microsoft, which puts it…

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Confusion reigns as report of an A24 Elden Ring movie emerges, disappears, and emerges again

Hoo, boy. Alright, let’s see here. Yesterday, an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday rapidly became confusing for Elden Ring-heads and people looking at particular corners of the internet when Nexus Point News, an entertainment news site, published an article claiming that Annihilation and Civil War director Alex Garland is set to direct an Elden Ring film adaptation…

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Chinese action game Phantom Blade Zero didn’t click for me until I realized its deep commitment to wuxia film authenticity meant I had to relearn how swords work

As soon as I sat down to play it, the developers of Phantom Blade Zero were eager to tell me that they motion captured the movements from real kung fu masters to ensure their game was as “authentic” as possible. They’re also very aware that when the game was first revealed, players thought it looked…

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Fortnite’s The Simpsons season is one of the best in ages—here are 4 things Epic should learn from it

Fortnite’s The Simpsons mini-season is an undeniable success. Average player numbers for November are the highest since March but, more importantly, Fortnite is fun again. The tone in the game’s subreddit has shifted from the gloom of Chapter 6 Season 4 to optimism: some are praising this as one of Fortnite’s best-ever seasons, others are…

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