Same Ooh boy, lotta ways to take statements Ubisoft head Yves Guillemot made in yesterday’s earnings call regarding Nintendo’s still-scantly-detailed console just eight months away. “On the NX, what we have seen is really great,” Guillemot said. “We think having a new machine coming is going to help the industry to continue to grow and to take a lot more casual players back to the industry.” First, Guillemot has little reason to say anything other than good things about a new Nintendo console (read: another platform upon which his company can sell games and make money)....

Impressive. PlayStation and developer ILMxLAB have announced thatVader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Seriesis coming to PlayStation VR this summer, following on from its 2019 release on Oculus. Vader Immortalis a VR adventure which consists of three distinct episodes. Running around an hour each, these short-form narrative adventures put the player deep inside the Sith Lord’s fortress where, armed with lightsaber skills and a mastery of The Force they will battle their way through its dark, hazard-filled corridors en route to a showdown with the Dark Jedi himself....

The universe needs to make this right When Legendary Entertainment and Nintendo announced aDetective Pikachumovie, the internet was given the chance to wonder what the iconic yellow chubster would sound like speaking real English words. Sure, your basic Pikachu would have the high-pitched voice of a child, but you throw a cap and coat on that boy, hand him a magnifying glass, and you got yourself a squat, alcoholic film noir P....

–BRAV0 F1VEreviews the indie darling,Cult of the Lamb. –Manasteel88made a game as a celebration for this year’s Halloween. –Kerrik52continues their retrospective on theLegacy of Kainseries with another deep dive intoSoul Reaver. –Taterchimpis hosting a Games Done Quick stream for charity purposes. Check it out! –PhilsPhindingsdiscusses the similarities between the soundtrack ofMega Man X2and the weird combination of Electronic Music and Blues. –ChronoLynxxopens this week’s TGIF community forum for random discussions....

‘Bear Mother’ and ‘The Professional,’ respectively In case you missed it,all four main characters inBorderlands 3are getting new skill treesthanks to the upcoming Designer’s Cut DLC:which is part of the second season pass. While Amara and the bestBorderlands 3character (do I even need to say their name?) were already spoiled, today Gearbox has unveiled the upcoming alterations to Moze and Zane’s playstyle, and they both sound just as fun as the other two....

Except when it’s busy being a Pixar film Today at Sony’s Tokyo Game Show media event, Square Enix showed offWorld of Final Fantasy, a new spin on the popular franchise that aims toappeal to childrenin just about every way possible. In addition to sporting a toy-like sometimes-chibi/sometimes-computer-animated movie look,World of Final Fantasyis basically Pokémonhas an emphasis on collecting and battling with monsters. Which is fine, I guess. It’s just a pretty stark contrast to the mainline series, which seems to be targeting a more “mature” demographic with its dark, gritty, realistic, no-girls-allowed road trip story....

The end of theXenobladeseries is not nigh! Recently,there have been staff commentsalluding to the potential end of theXenobladeseries, but that’s not exactly correct. Instead, the team is mostly referring to the end of the “trilogy,” as a new email fromXenoblade Chronicles 3director Tetsuya Takahashi (obtained by Nintendo Everything) sheds some more light on where the series is going from here. Note that there is one spoilery element, which I have removed with the bold emphasis below:...

Anime Apocalypse Anime game lovin’ publisher XSEED will be showing off its wares at PAX East in Boston this weekend, giving attendees the chance to check out some of the gorgeous-looking new releases. Rune Factory 4 Specialis the Nintendo Switch remake of 2012 3DS title, and features all of the farming, crop-growing, animal-rearing and marital strife of the original. New features in dual audio support for English and Japanese language, an all-new “Newlywed” mode, and a higher difficulty option for anime farming pros....

505 Games ‘overwhelmed by requests’ for the port After hearing that aPlayStation Vita releasefor the wonderful sandbox-style action-adventure titleTerrariawas under consideration at 505 Games, I did not expect to hear a definitive “yes” or “no” to the idea of yet another port anytime soon. It feels good to be wrong. In breaking the news on thePlayStation Blog, not many details other than the existence ofTerrariafor Vita were discussed, but the studio did confirm eight-person simultaneous online play....

Throughout the years, particularly in 2023 and 2024, we’ve experienced some of the best (and worst) gaming has to offer, from role-playing games that set the standard for years to come to small indie titles that lay comfortably in our hearts and tug at the heartstrings. We’re also continuing to see the rise of expansions for some of the most famous games out there, fromWorld of Warcraft: The War WithintoFinal Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail....

2XKOis back at Evo once again for 2025, and thankfully, we were able to talk to the game’s director, Shaun Rivera, on all topics big and small, including one of the game’s biggest questions—Yordle characters. Yordles have been a sticking point for me in this game, as I evenasked Shaun about it last yearat Evo 2024. Back then, their height was still a difficulty, and he talked about how it would be frustrating losing to a character due to something the players were not doing at all, such as having to get over a height difference....

Would you back a Kickstarter project for this? The developer of the creepyAlicegames, American McGee, posted on hisFacebookasking people if they had an interested in there being anAlice 3. If we could get the rights from EA, would you playAlice 3?2) If you’d playAlice 3, would you back it on Kickstarter?3) If you said yes to those two things, make some noise – I’m trying to gauge interest in case I happen to discuss this with EA during GDC in two weeks....

Which is the best Pokémon starter is an argument as old as the series itself. As long as there are new Pokémon games, there will be skirmishes over which starter to choose. There are also generations whereeverystarter is top tier and others where, well, they’re not. It’s practically impossible to rank the Pokémon starters in 1-27 order, so we’ve created a tier list to group the winners and losers together. There are basically an infinite number of ways to rank Pokémon, but we’ve gone with a mixture of design, personality, and staying power for each tier....