Arrives this November! It’s been almost 30 years since Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble! was released, and since then, we’ve been treated to two more entries in the Country series: Donkey Kong Country Returns and 2014’s Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Both of these took the classic side-scrolling gameplay fans loved and…
“We see an opportunity to be more focused in our execution”. You know that awesome developer Night School Studio? The one behind Oxenfree and its 2023 sequel? Yeah, it’s gone. Netflix shut it down. This news comes from Game File, confirming that the streaming giant has closed two studios: the aforementioned Night School Studio and…
Block party. We’ve been keeping an eye on Woodo since it was first announced for Switch back in 2024. This delightful-looking 3D puzzler warmed our cockles when it appeared back in the Indie World Direct earlier this year (accompanied by a Switch 2 announcement), and now, it finally has a release date. Developer Tiny Monks…
“I’m returning to the original promise with four decades of different experience”. Michael Cranford is a true legend of the video game industry. He’s most famous for designing and programming 1985’s The Bard’s Tale and its 1986 sequel The Bard’s Tale II: The Destiny Knight, and his other credits include Maze Master, Dark Seed and…
Square Enix is currently working on the fourth game. The Kingdom Hearts universe continues to expand, and ahead of the fourth game, Disney Games Group has revealed the series is one of its nine “billion-dollar” franchises. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Launching this September. Nintendo has ramped up its coverage of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave in recent weeks with a Direct and various other announcements and trailers related to the game. Now, the final previews have officially gone live. If you haven’t already seen Jim’s impressions, here’s a quick sample, and you can read more in…
Deposit 3,000 more Pokémon. The Pokémon Company this week announced Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen would be linked with the storage subscription service Pokémon HOME this October. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Sega is celebrating with a free Sonic Adventure 2 gift. Sega shadow-dropped Sonic Frontiers – Definitive Edition on the Switch 2 in June as part of the blue blur’s ongoing 35th anniversary celebrations. Now, in an update, it’s confirmed Sonic Frontiers has officially surpassed five million sales since originally launching on Switch and other platforms…
The Switch 2 exclusive got its first DLC update last week. Following the latest financial update last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have now officially announced Pokémon Pokopia has sold more than five million units globally in “just over four months”. According to the official press release, this includes all of the “physical and…
From the archives: This article originally ran in PC Gamer #326 (UK, January 2019). Something I miss when I play digital games is the tactile side of play. It’s why videogames and board games coexist in my life so beautifully. One allows for complexity beyond what a pen-and-paper can track, and the other offers tokens…