Gaming

Nintendo and Sony both apparently conspired to have their big September shows on the same day — while I was out of the office, no less. I managed to watch the Direct in the morning (while at the DMV) and I was struck by just how much the company is leaning into Mario this time around. Not surprised, of course — it’s Mario, after all, and the brand is hotter now than ever. But in the next…

Stig Asmussen, who served as game director for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and its sequel Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Electronic Arts. Both titles were critical and commercial successes. Fallen Order shipped over 20 million copies while the sequel was the best selling game of April 2023. Asmussen was a key leader at EA’s subsidiary studio Respawn Entertainment and it’s not clear what prompted…

Toikido is teaming up with Chuck E. Cheese to bring an immersive Piñata Smashlings experience to young fans both in-game and in-store. This groundbreaking collaboration marks the first official integration of Chuck E. Cheese’s characters into the Roblox platform. Supersocial and Toikido created the Piñata Smashlings game on Roblox. It’s a three-way marriage of digital and physical…

Xbox has announced the games coming to Game Pass in its first wave of September additions. The number of games added in this wave is relatively low — just three games in the first two weeks of the month. However, the three games in question are hefty enough to keep most players occupied until the next wave comes in: Starfield, Solar Ash and Lies of P. Starfield, which is available today after…