One month to go!
With only one month to go until its official release, Nintendo has announced that the final pre-launch trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be heading our way tomorrow (13th April 2023).
The trailer will be livestreamed on the official Nintendo YouTube channel for all regions at 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST / 07:00 PT and will be roughly three minutes in length.
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Expect news of Free Title Update 5.
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak received its fourth free title update back in February and Capcom has now announced that news of what’s next is on the horizon. Shared via the @monsterhunter Twitter account, the studio will be hosting a digital event on 19th April, where all will be revealed about Free Title Update 5.
The event promises to showcase all of the new features that we can expect to come our way in the game’s next update as well as reveal the all-important release date.
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Open-source toolkit for Unity & Unreal also in the works.
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has announced the first major update to its ‘game crediting policies’ guide in a decade, in hope of improving crediting standards across the video game industry.
Its ‘Game Credits Special Interest Group’ (SIG) recognises inconsistencies throughout the industry – not only from “game to game” but also in the same companies. According to SIG, employees can often be “mislabeled, unlabeled, or left off” credits even if they “spent years of their life” bringing a game to life, and this can impact “career and award” chances.
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Spot the difference.
Today marks the return of the classic Nintendo 64 title Pokémon Stadium this time for the Switch Online service.
This new version will now doubt look sharper and seemingly runs smoother in terms of performance, but just how much of an improvement is there compared to the original version from the year 2000? The YouTube channel GameXplain has put together a brief comparison clip showing the past and present versions.
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Return to the battle arena today.
Last week, Nintendo announced it would be adding the original Pokémon Stadium to the Switch Online N64 service.
The big day has now arrived, with the year 2000 release returning with “the original 151 Pokémon” from Pokémon Red Version, Pokémon Blue Version and Pokémon Yellow Version games. Just like the original, there are solo and multiplayer modes included as well as minigames.
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Get the lowdown on Nintendo’s upcoming event.
In-person gaming events have gone through a bit of a rough patch over the last few years. E3 is seemingly dead and buried, and although Geoff Keighley is making hay with Summer Game Fest, some publishers are increasingly forgoing physical events for more focused, curated digital showcases.
Nintendo in particular has been especially fixated on its Direct presentations, and it doesn’t look as though that’s about to change anytime soon. What the company has started, however, is a new in-person event called ‘Nintendo Live’.
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Griddy with anticipation.
The world of Tron is filled with intrigue, opposing forces, and not-so-subtle hints at the influence humans have on the programs living within their computers. While the two films followed humans who made their way to The Grid, TRON: Identity is a visual novel that offers a look at how programs interact when there aren’t any humans around to interfere.
Tron: Identity casts players in the role of Query, a Disciple of Tron who is tasked with discovering the truth behind an explosion. The game does a solid job of casting Query into the classic role of the hard-boiled detective. Though he is significantly less hard-drinking and aggressive than the likes of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, that is certainly the vein of fiction that Bithell Games (Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular, John Wick Hex) mined for inspiration, right down to the near-constant rain that falls on the dark streets of The Grid.
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Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart keep hanging on.
The Easter weekend is over, and that means the UK boxed charts are in. It’s been another quiet week for Nintendo, with two of the Big N’s major titles still making the top ten. And it’s another case of the usual suspects.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Mario Odyssey charted in fourth and tenth respectively, with Mario Kart scooting up a place and Odyssey slipping down two. We’ve seen Super Mario Odyssey sales jump up thanks to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and we wonder if this streak will continue.
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“This choice wasn’t made easily”.
Service for the Switch version of Rogue Company will be ending on 20th June 2023, publisher Hi-Rez Studios has announced. The studio released a statement earlier today confirming the decision, along with a note that it will continue to provide full support to the PC, PlayStation, and Xbox versions. (Thanks, Destructoid.)
Developed by First Watch Games, Rogue Company is a free-to-play hero shooter launched on Switch in July 2020 in Early Access until going free-to-play in October 2020 with an open beta. We reviewed the game while it was in the Early Access, giving it a respectable 7/10. The game’s release followed in May 2022.
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Game director seemingly confirms.
Sega recently delivered its first major update for the “open-zone” title Sonic Frontiers and there are more on the way.
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