Yuzu, the popular Nintendo Switch emulator, shut down today, days after Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the developers.
At the same time, Yuzu’s parent company Tropic Haze and Nintendo filed a joint motion to settle the lawsuit, with Yuzu paying Nintendo $2.4 million. They’ll also destroy all copies of Yuzu — as well as 3DS emulator Citra — and give Nintendo control of their Yuzu URL…
Mattel partners with Zynga’s Rollic to make Barbie mobile game
February 29, 2024
Mattel has teamed up with Zynga’s Rollic casual game studio to make a new Barbie mobile game.
So yes, there is finally a new Barbie game coming, and, no, it’s not called Barbenheimer.
El Segundo, California-based Mattel is teaming up with Take-Two’s Zynga/Rollic to…
The main task for Activision is building any Call of Duty game is to “not screw it up.” And so the pending March 21 launch of Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will be a big test for the development ecosystem that the company built for its big free-to-play game release on iOS…
GamerSafer acquires Minecraft-focused Minehut server community
February 29, 2024
GamerSafer has acquired the Minehut server from Super Minehut community League, taking over a popular Minecraft server community.
Minehut has been around since 2015 and it has had millions of players. It still has about 500,000 monthly active users, said Rodrigo Tamellini, CEO of GamerSafer, in an interview with GamesBeat. The price wasn’t disclosed.
“Minehut is a unique asset. Whenever we…
Nintendo today held its Partner Showcase Direct, in which it revealed games coming to Switch from its third-party partners in 2024. While most eyes were keen for the former Xbox exclusives that were coming to Switch — Pentiment and Grounded being confirmed during the show…
Xbox confirms all four new multiplatform games
February 22, 2024
Xbox has announced the titles of the four games it’s bringing to other consoles: Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Grounded and Sea of Thieves. Pentiment and Grounded are coming to Nintendo Switch — as previously announced in today’s Nintendo Direct — as well as PlayStations 5…
Gadget-Bot takes Kaidro anime RPG to Ronin blockchain
February 22, 2024
Gadget-Bot Productions, the creator of blockbusters such as Alita: Battle Angel and Jurassic World, will debut its anime-style RPG Kaidro on the Ronin blockchain.
Headed by Peggy Chung and Robert Simons, Gadget-Bot is building Kaidro, which was inspired by a beloved webcomic intellectual property. The company unveiled the title with an exclusive trailer.
Moreover, Gadget-Bot declared that Kaidro…
Ubisoft launches Rainbow Six Smol, a roguelite exclusive to Netflix
February 21, 2024
Ubisoft announced it’s making a new version of Rainbow Six: Siege, exclusively for Netflix.
The new title isn’t a first-person shooter like its parent game. Instead, Rainbow Six Smol is a top-down isometric roguelite with a cartoonish art style very different from Siege.
A Nintendo Direct and Elden Ring DLC trailer drop on the same day
February 21, 2024
February 21 is going to be a full day for gamers, as both Nintendo and Bandai Namco are dropping new details about their much-anticipated upcoming projects. Nintendo is holding its Partner Showcase at 6 am PT, while Bandai Namco is finally revealing details about Elden…
Epic Games Store hits 270M PC users, up 17% from 2022
February 20, 2024
Epic Games said the Epic Games Store has hit 270 million PC players in 2023, up 40 million, or 17% from 2022.
This community now has a total of 804 million Epic cross-platform accounts. In 2023 Daily Active Users peaked at 36.1 million, and Monthly Active Users reached 75 million users – up from last year’s 68 million.
The store launched 1,300 new PC titles, and the Epic Games Store now…
