Nintendo hasn’t announced a lot of first-party releases for 2020, but one game that we’ve known is coming for a while is Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. Now, that open-world action-RPG has a release date. Nintendo and developer Monolith Soft are launching the updated Wii game on May 29.
Xenoblade Chronicles is a sci-fi/fantasy role-playing game. It tells the story of Shulk, which…
Catherine: Full Body is coming to Switch on July 7
March 27, 2020
Nintendo revealed during its Direct Mini presentation today that Catherine: Full Body is coming to Switch on July 7.
Full Body is a definitive edition release of the Atlus puzzle game, which debuted in 2011. The original version sold over 1 million copies, which is good for…
Nintendo brings back Club House Games for Switch
March 27, 2020
Nintendo is bringing back one of its better and more obscure handheld properties. The publisher announced Club House Games: 51 Worldwide Classics is coming to Nintendo Switch on June 5. This is a followup to the excellent Clubhouse Games for Nintendo DS from 2006.
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Animoca Brands and its subsidiary TSB Gaming said that The Sandbox blockchain-based gaming world will feature a virtual Atari theme park.
It’s one more example of how Atari is aggressively putting its name on everything from new VCS game consoles (which haven’t shipped yet) to hotel chains.
TSB Gaming (previously Pixowl) is creating The Sandbox platform based on blockchain and non-fungible…
Nintendo says it has no plans to release a new model of its hybrid home/handheld Switch system this year. But president Shuntaro Furukawa said something similar in an interview in January 2019, and then company launched the Switch Lite in September. But even if the next…
The ending of Doom Eternal
March 25, 2020
I’ll give it to the developers at id Software. They really know how to stretch out an ending. I’ve played through Doom Eternal on the easy setting, and I’ve included two videos of the actual ending in this post. And it feels like he ending goes on for a long time…
Bethesda announced today that Doom Eternal has had the best launch weekend of any game in the franchise’s history.
The publisher did not specify how many copies it sold, but Bethesda did note that the launch weekend doubled the launch weekend revenue for the last entry in the series, 2016’s Doom. That game came out in May, and by July it had sold 2 million copies on PC.
Bethesda also revealed…
The world is stuck at home as part of the fight against the spread of COVID-19. This has led to a huge jump in gaming activity across multiple platforms. Sony has even agreed to throttle its network to save bandwidth for more crucial data. But just because people are…
Roblox’s in-game Bloxy Awards draw 600,000 spectators
March 24, 2020
Roblox announced that its seventh annual Bloxy Awards drew more than 4 million concurrent players during the peak of the show and 600,000 spectators for the show itself. The event ceremony, staged inside Roblox’s game world, raised $100,000 for nonprofits.
San Mateo…
Google Stadia has had a rough launch, but that isn’t because the cloud-gaming technology doesn’t work. Instead, the service is suffering from a lack of exciting content. Now, Google is working to address that concern by partnering on an exclusive Stadia game with British developer Splash Damage. Google made this announcement today as part of its Games Developer Summit event.
Splash Damage is…
