March 18 Well, finally. Leaks have suggestedthat a newAnimal Crossingline would arrive at some point this year, and now Nintendo has confirmed it. On March 18, Timmy & Tommy Nook (Target exclusive), Kapp’n, and Rover will launch. This is mixed in with the launch of Famicom ROB, Ryu, and Roy (GameStop exclusive). That’s a big ol’ wave! Oh, and Digby will be a standalone amiibo now, and will arrive with a new set ofAnimal Crossingcards....

No longer launching on July 18th If you were waiting forPlants vs. Zombies 2next month, prepare to be disappointed: the officialPvZTwitter account notesthat the sequel will not hit its target date of July 18th, instead launching “later in the summer.” It appears as if the delay is not due to a simultaneously launch for other platforms, as the game is still planned for an iOS-only launch, with other platforms at a later date....

If sources have it right, then EA is to make Pandemic Studios no more after this afternoon. According to aKotakureport, several unnamed sources have said that the studio responsible forMercenariesand the still-upcomingThe Saboteuris to close its doors in the near future. Furthermore, much of the studio’s 200 or so staff members will be laid off this morning via an in-house announcement expected at 11 AM PT. The remaining staff are supposedly to be reassigned to other EA-owned “development teams....

Damsel in Distress: Part 1 Well, here’s the momentyou’ve all been waiting for: Anita Sarkeesian’s firstTropes vs. Women in Video Gameshas been released, and I’m pleased to say, it’s a much better effort than the factually inaccurateBayonettavideo. Anita takes a journey through media, showing examples of Damsels in Distress throughout history, including old films, cartoons, and television. This episode heavily focuses on Princess Peach, explaining the history of the character, and her role in theMariofranchise, as well as Princess Zelda....

Enter the Arenas If you’ve been holding off on diving intoSifuuntil its new expansion hits the internet waves, then your time is almost here. Sloclap has announced that they’ll be dropping the first DLC, the Arenas Expansion, on June 15, 2025. The Arenas Expansion forSifubulks up the core game with an estimated 10 hours of content. This is the sum of 9 new areas, 45 new challenges, and 5 game modes....

Same day as consoles Anyone eager to play the upcomingDanganronpa V3and without a console will be happy to know that the game is coming to PC. Spike Chunsoft confirmed, today, that the game will be launching on September 26 for the platform (which is the same day as the PS4 and Vita versions). While NIS America will be publishing the game for Sony’s platforms, Spike Chunsoft will be doing it for PC....

Super Mario 3D Worldlooks better every time I see it, mostly due to the sheer variety of the level designs shown off in each new trailer. This new extended spot gives us quite a bit of new info, including enemy designs, and even a few boss fights. I’m really looking forward to seeing if the character specific abilities, mountable creatures, and multiplayer aspects keep things fresh. It’s just a shame that it has to launch in the incredibly crowded “end of November” spot....

Three-on-three tag teams Watch the Dragon Ball Z Fighter trailer again. And again! Arc System Works is doing a 2.5DDragon Ball Zfighting game and hot dang does it look good. Like, “What you imagine in your mind’s eye when you thinkDBZfighter” good. Dragon Ball FighterZis coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Steam in 2018. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer said he recently saw the game in Japan while on-stage during Microsoft’s E3 presser and called it “hilarious, a little crazy, and a whole lot of fun....

Left and right, get it? This rather boring GIF represents the agony that someDayZplayers are going through. Version .55 just launched, and it looks like randomly broken legs are one of the features that rolled out. Just when you thought the zombie apocalypse couldn’t get any tougher. For what it’s worth, it’s unknown if this is a bug, or the result of a newly-implemented physics calculation that takes weight into consideration....

Of course there is In a surprising move, the PlayStation VR is selling out across the Internet from online retailers (and surely in stores too). In an equally unsurprising move, GameStop has gone its usual route of patching up select stock tocreate its own“exclusive” — an $889.99 PlayStation VR “Ultimate Game” Bundle. The PlayStation VR launch bundle for all intents and purposes appears to be out of stock everywhere online except forAmazonGameStop(Amazon is not shipping until much later)....

Only in Japan, again Monster Hunter Frontier Onlineis already available in Japan for the PC and Xbox 360, but to celebrate the upcoming Wii U and PlayStation 3 releases, Capcom has given us a new trailer for the update titledMonster Hunter Frontier G. To be clear, the original game was released in 2007 (as an upgrade toMonster Hunter 2), and it’s online-only with a monthly fee — so don’t get too excited....

This could be the most touching movie about brawling animals yet If you showed us your list of video games that you thought would work best as movies,Rampageis likely not one of them. You know,Rampage? That old, Midway arcade game with the giant monsters destroying the city? All of the hip, young millennials know about that one. Anyway, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is in this movie. If thefirst trailer for the filmsomehow didn’t convince you, we doubt that this new one will....

If you needed another excuse to replay it, that is. The back catalog has been growing on Xbox, and several Electronic Arts games are getting a little boost to their performance on newer consoles. Earlier this year, Microsoft detailedFPS Boost, a new tool for making older games run even better on Xbox Series X and S. A few games, like Bethesda titlesFallout 76andDishonoredalready got their FPS Boost. Today, several EA games are joining the lineup....