Launching the same date as the eShop version. Earlier this week, Capcom confirmed the Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy would be launching on the Nintendo Switch early next year on 25th January 2024. Now, in an update, it’s been confirmed a physical release is coming to Japan and other Asia regions on the same date….
Some Steam sales are wide open things: Any game can take part in one of the big four seasonal sales, for instance, as long as they’re on sale during the relevant season. There are also more specific sales, like the third-person shooter fest, or the political sim fest. Few, though, are as narrowly defined as…
Stalker developer GSC Game World has been added to the Russian government’s list of “undesirable organisations,” per a press release from the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office. In other words, it’s been deemed a threat to the “foundations of Russia’s constitutional order, defensive capacity and security,” and anyone in Russia maintaining ties to the studio could…
I adore the Yakuza games. You explore a small slice of Tokyo, get into constant OTT fistfights, and help weirdos with bizarre problems. Like, say, distracting a bunch of children so a living statue can sneak off to take a dump without traumatising them. 2009’s Yakuza 3 sees recurring protagonist Kazuma Kiryu quitting the yakuza…
Skin Deep lays bare a truth about the immersive sims we anoint to holiness: Beneath a veneer of grizzled assassins and sunglassed corpo agents, beyond the virtues of player choice and non-linear level design, is a genre by and for goofballs. The allure of a hackable computer or pickable pockets is catnip for troublemakers—a license…
Things that make you go Vroom. We reported a little while back on Switch 2 timed-exclusive Gear.Club Unlimited 3, and how it was delayed from an initial release date in 2025 to sometime in 2026. Now, Nacon and Eden Games have announced pre-orders for the delayed racer for Switch 2, with a release date of…
Can’t stop the dream. It has been another rough post-price-hike sales week for Switch 2 in Japan, but Nintendo stays winning on the software side, thanks to Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream (thanks, Famitsu). The wacky life sim added another 50,000+ copies to its pile this week, stopping the new Switch 2 releases of Final…
Japan-only sequel runs on custom Taito 3D hardware. Operation Wolf is one of Taito’s most iconic arcade titles, so much so that it recently got a new entry in the shape of Operation Wolf Returns. Released in arcades in 1987 to commercial and critical acclaim, it would be ported to multiple home formats at the…
Battlefield 6 has blasted onto the FPS scene, revitalizing Electronic Arts’ franchise with a return to classic elements and a hefty dose of widespread destruction. But its October 10 release was just the beginning. Developer Battlefield Studios has more free content coming for the game, starting with its first season, which kicks off on October…
Thanks to RetroRic and Earok’s Scorpion Engine. Toaplan is famous for its shmups, but the Japanese company also produced games in other genres, with 1987’s Wardner being one of the most well-known. Now, indie developer RetroRic is leveraging Earok’s Scorpion Engine to bring this side-scrolling cult classic to “stock” AGA and OCS Commodore Amiga computers….