Three more chapters are coming soon.
Following another update earlier this week, the Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes social media account has shared a reminder about the upcoming story expansion DLC, which will be released between now and the end of 2024.
The expansion content will kick off in August 2024 with Marisa’s story:
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One of the “top 10” global licensors.
The Pokémon Company has plenty of huge money-makers from video games to trading cards, and we’ve now got a look at how it ranked alongside certain other companies over the past year, courtesy of License Global’s latest retail report.
It seems it made a whopping $10.8 billion in retail sales – making it seventh on the list of “top 10 global licensors”. This placed it ahead of brands like Mattel but it’s still behind other companies such as Hasbro and Warner Bros. Discovery. The Walt Disney Company took out the top spot – banking $62 billion. This has pushed total retail and merchandise sales to $91.6 billion.
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Golden axiom.
Pow Pixel Games slices its way onto the indie game scene with Abathor, an arcade-style throwback to fantasy belt scrollers of the ’80s and ’90s. It’s a pleasingly old-fashioned hack-‘n’-slash platformer that will conjure memories of childhood couch co-op.
Golden Axe is the obvious influence, despite the side-on perspective, but there are also shades of more recent pixelated homages. A heavy metal aesthetic recalls the dark fantasy of Slain and Blasphemous, though its tone is much lighter than those games. Character designs, power-ups, and enemies are ripped straight from genre media. Abathor wears these influences proudly. It isn’t trying to do anything different and it’s all the more entertaining for it.
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Powerful Pro Baseball knocks it out of the park.
We are back with the latest look at the Japanese gaming charts thanks to Famitsu and, unusually, a new Nintendo release has not taken the top spot.
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition winds up in third in its debut week, only shifting 27,391 copies. It’s hardly the biggest number for a physical debut (particularly from Nintendo) and it wasn’t nearly enough to topple the Japan-only Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-25, which sold 166,947 copies on Switch and 49,210 on PS4.
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Oh Shadow, what have they done to you?
LEGO has today revealed a Shadow the Hedgehog bust set, which is set to be released on 1st October 2024.
Retailing for £59.99 / $69.99, the 720-piece kit features Shadow’s head mounted on a stand with an attachable nameplate. It all sounds rather sinister when we write it out. Fortunately, the set features “Easter eggs hidden in both the head and the sturdy stand”, so that takes the edge off it, right?
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It’s been spotted in the wild, too.
It looks like another premium Mario Lego set is on the way, and this time it’s based on the SNES hit Super Mario World.
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The Deku Tree is the “first element” represented in bricks.
After ongoing rumours, The Legend of Zelda ‘Great Deku Tree 2-in-1’ set was finally confirmed earlier this year in May.
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Wave 1 is available now.
To celebrate the recent launch of Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, a new batch of icons have been released for the Switch Online service.
The first wave is now officially underway and will be available until 31st July 2024. NSO Icons Alerts on social media has shared a closer look at what’s on offer in Wave 1, with each icon available for 10 Platinum Points. As you can see, you can get retro icons based on Super Mario Bros., Kirby, Metroid, and more.
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“If you make a protagonist who just stands there, they will look like an idiot”.
The silent protagonist is a hotly debated topic among RPG enthusiasts. Usually acting as a stand-in for the player, this character is usually the lead, although they have no (or very little) dialogue, and can only interact with characters through basic dialogue options. And the creator of Dragon Quest, Yuji Horii, has weighed in on the difficulties of using silent protagonists in modern video games.
In a chat with the director of the Persona series Katsura Hashino published in Denfaminicogamer (and translated by Automaton Media), Horii admitted that “increasingly-realistic” graphics have made silent protagonists “increasingly difficult to depict”.
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Giant cube-shaped cat fights and “The Schrödinger System”.
BitSummit, held in Kyoto every sweltering hot summer, plays host to an incredible amount of indie developers from across the globe. As you might expect, it can be rather hard to stand out – so much so that it was even difficult for us to curate a list of impressive Switch games down to only 10 titles this year. However, Cassette Boy, with its muted Game Boy-like color palette, exuded so much retro charm that we couldn’t help but play it more than once, chatting with the sole developer Kiyoshi Honda whenever he had a moment to spare from the hordes lining up to play his game.
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