Nintendo’s theme park was already supposed to be open ahead of the Tokyo Summer Olympics, but like the games themselves, that plan was pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, Super Nintendo World is set to open in the spring of 2021, again just before the re-scheduled Olympics, the gaming company has announced (via The Verge).
Super Nintendo World will be a “life-size, living video…
Japan’s Super Nintendo World will open in spring 2021
October 7, 2020
Nintendo has announced that its first theme park area will belatedly open at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka next spring. Super Nintendo World was originally planned to open before the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, but the date was pushed back along with the Games…
I’ve played Watch Dogs: Legion for multiple previews, and it has been hard for me to get past that the game has no main character. Sure, Nigel Cass (the leader of law enforcement faction Albion) is the central villain. But as the player, you can take control of anyone…
Flexibility is a hallmark of Larian Studios‘ design in its Divinity: Original Sin series. The stories offer branching paths, your companions change how you approach situations, and the character creator offers a mind-boggling amount of combinations.
And you see most of this in the Steam Early Access slice of Baldur’s Gate III. I’ve spent about 12 hours with it, and all of this is in the…
The Xbox Series X has a number of display-related technologies and features that we haven’t seen in any console before. This includes support for 4K at 120Hz over HDMI 2.1 and variable refresh rate (like AMD’s FreeSync). But the upcoming PlayStation 5 and most new…
Twitch clarifies its ban on terrorism and extremist content
October 6, 2020
Twitch has updated its community guidelines, the rules that govern the site, to clarify its ban of terrorist and extremist content. The move appears to be in order to strengthen its language around that sort of material.
Here’s what it added, per Engadget:
Twitch does not…
To whet your appetite a bit more for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Ubisoft wants to teach you about the history of Vikings. It made a podcast called Echoes of Valhalla and all five episodes are now available on Spotify.
Ubisoft described the documentary series as “the first immersive audio historical documentary series in audio for Assassin’s Creed.” As with the game, Echoes of Valhalla…
Roblox has big plans for virtual music events
October 5, 2020
On a Friday night in September, more than a million people showed up to an album launch party inside the virtual world of Roblox. American pop star Ava Max held a “virtual fan meetup” in the game to celebrate the launch of her new album Heaven & Hell. It was a…
Twitch clarifies its ban on terrorist and extremist content
October 5, 2020
Twitch has updated its community guidelines to clarify its ban on terrorist and extremist content. It said that it’s doing so to “reinforce the fact that this type of content has no place on Twitch.”
We’ve clarified our policy prohibiting terrorist and extremist…
Microsoft said its Xbox Game Studios has so far enjoyed a record year in terms of the number of games it has launched ahead of the November debut of the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles.
Games marketing general manager Aaron Greenberg said in a blog today that Microsoft’s internal game studios have launched 15 games so far this year, 10 of which are brand-new titles. This count will get even…
