Sixth man. It’s been almost two years since Nintendo Switch Sports‘ last major update with the addition of Golf. The patch left us feeling decidedly “whelmed” — it was a nice add-on, but nothing special after having played Wii Sports and its Resort follow-up. With Basketball, the latest sport to join the roster, we expected […]
The highest of bars. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Gavin ponders what ‘success’ looks like for systems with impossibly popular predecessors… Looking back at Nintendo’s home console hardware sales over the past four decades, the line plotted […]
Come again..? Remember Tengen? From 1987 to 1994, it was a subsidiary of Atari Games focused on creating unlicensed titles for the NES by attempting to circumvent Nintendo’s licensee restrictions. After obtaining a copy of the Nintendo lock-out program, Tengen was well on its way to creating its own NES cartridges. However, Nintendo promptly sued […]
It’s all in the mouth. Masahiro Sakurai is back with another game development video and today’s lesson is all about Manga-like visuals. The legendary game designer discusses the expressive and unrealistic techniques employed by manga and anime artists to achieve the most expressive result, specifically, how a character’s mouth appears in profile and from the […]
Catching Zs and catching $s. Pokémon Sleep, the sleep-tracking app where you can catch ’em all by catching Zs, has reportedly brought in an impressive $100 million in its first year (thanks, VGC). This is according to AppMagic data recently published by PocketGamer.Biz which reports that the lion’s share of the revenue has come from […]
No stone left unturned. It has been a little over a year since The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom landed on Switch and for many of us, the adventure is over. Sure, we might drop into Hyrule to mop up a couple more quest, do some more exploring or get lost in the […]
“This team was the worst!”. Clover Studio’s Ōkami was one of the most critically acclaimed games of its day when it launched on PS2 in 2006 and Wii in 2008. Despite this, Hideki Kamiya has revealed that its development team was, on the whole, pretty weak. This comes via a new video from ‘UNSEEN’ on […]
WaaaAaAaa. The latest UK charts are in and after making its golden debut last week, Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD couldn’t hold onto the prize. Nintendo’s latest remaster drops to third this time as the familiar faces of EA Sports FC 24 and Hogwarts Legacy reassume their spots at the top of the table. Read the […]
“A new culinary adventure awaits”. You’ve probably cooked all sorts of delights (and not-so-tasty dishes) in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and if you’re interested in applying these skills to the real world, then this new “unofficial” cookbook based on The Legend of Zelda series might be for you. This is the […]
Sleeping withe fishes. Dave The Diver developer MINTROCKET has released a fresh hotfix for 2023’s deep-sea darling, and it looks like it’s reeling in a net full of bugs. This latest update brings the game on Switch up to ver. 1.0.2.828 and while it might not be the content-adding behemoths that we are used to […]