Category: Nintendo

Featuring two brand new maps.

PowerWash Simulator is having a blast in celebration of its second anniversary as developer FuturLab has released a fresh free content update containing two new mucky maps.

Titled ‘Muckingham Files 3’, this update includes an all-new aquarium environment and a submarine, both of which were voted for by the PowerWash Simulator community. You’ll be hosing down the exhibits, getting rid of dirt in every nook and cranny (or should that be hook and clam-my?) and hearing plenty of that satisfying ‘ding‘ when your task is suitably spotless.

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Following mobile team being shut down.

NetherRealm Studios, the developer behind the Mortal Kombat series, is reportedly facing multiple layoffs after select staff members from the studios’ mobile team shared posts on LinkedIn announcing that they have been put out of work (thanks, Eurogamer).

The NetherRealm mobile team seems to be the most affected by the layoffs, after the branch was reportedly shut down despite working on multiple active live-service projects including Mortal Kombat Mobile, Injustice 2, and Mortal Kombat Onslaught. Tony Lazzara, a quality assurance analyst, wrote “Netherrealm’s mobile team was shut down. A ton of very talented people were put out of work”.

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Excitement activated.

Developer Tiny Wonder Studio has announced koROBO, a spiritual successor of sorts to the cult classic Chibi-Robo! series with ex-developers from Skip Ltd. working on the project.

The game follows koRobo, a small robot alongside his 10-year-old owner, Tom, set within the ‘urban jungle’ of New York City. When Tom receives koROBO as a birthday gift, he’s completely unaware of what the little robot is capable of.

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The fight gets underway this weekend.

This weekend is EVO 2024 and while the full roster of games has already been revealed, it seems there’ll be some other surprises…

Capcom’s official Marvel vs. Capcom social media account has announced it will be hosting a special “casual community livestream” which will showcase the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics from the show floor on 19th July. You’ll be able to see it in action on Capcom USA’s Twitch channel:

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Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, and Sonic 06 favourites return.

Continuing the Year of Shadow celebrations, Sega has shared a brand new trailer for Sonic X Shadow Generations, which showcases a couple of the stages returning for Shadow’s side of the adventure.

And, just like with Sonic’s stages in Sonic Generations, Shadow will also be revisiting levels from previous titles. Sega has highlighted three of those, and they’ll be familiar to all of you diehard Shadow fans.

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The only moral Toree.

Toree’s Panic Pack costs 89p. 99¢. That’ll probably either perk up your ears, or make your face twist in reasonable scepticism. Luckily, as with all the previous Toree games, it’s absolutely worthy of the former and certainly not the latter.

Previous games in the series of short and colourful 3D platformers have had a mantra of ‘easy to pick up, difficult to master’, and if you’ve indulged in any of them and have been hankering for something a bit more ‘difficult to pick up, aching to master’, well you’ve struck gold here, sunshine.

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But it can’t scare off Luigi.

Famitsu‘s latest look at the Japanese gaming charts is in and it’s another clean sweep for the Switch.

Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD holds onto the top spot for the third week in a row — way to go, bro — but there are also two new entries this time around which have snuck into the proceedings. Aerial action was clearly a popular choice this week, as Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition flew into second place with 14,322 sales in its debut. Princess Maker 2 Regeneration also nabbed a spot in the top ten, with 3,685 units sold.

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An absolute legend.

Former Rare artist Brett Jones, who worked on the classic N64 games GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark, has died.

Jones’ work on the classic first-person shooter was wide-ranging and included concept art and character creation, model rigging, animation, and texturing. He would go on to do much of the same work on Perfect Dark, including work on the protagonist herself and leading efforts on the game’s memorable motion-captured animation.

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Adjustments, bug fixes and more.

Update :

Here’s your reminder that this update for Splatoon 3 is now officially live. It will bump the game up to Version 8.1.0 and comes with multiple adjustments, changes and fixes covering player controls, multiplayer and more. You can see the original story below:

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It’s coming to Japan this October.

The Switch Joy-Con are quite easy to charge, but the catch is you have to attach them to the system. With this in mind, Nintendo is finally giving users an alternative way to charge these controllers with the official Switch Joy-Con Charging Stand.

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