Today’s Nintendo Direct presentation closed with exactly what (most) everyone was hoping for: More on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel. While development is still underway and more info is coming, producer Eiji Aonuma popped in to discuss it and other Zelda …Read more »
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, is coming out with the real-world AR mobile game TRANSFORMERS: Heavy Metal. “This will be a Transformers game unlike any other, an AR game where you’ll get to team up with the likes of Bumblebee and the Autobots in …Read more »
Square Enix has been making announcements during E3, including news related to the Final Fantasy franchise. They streamed a trailer for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, which is scheduled to come out next year. Character designer Tetsuya Nomura said, “The announcement may have come …Read more »
Following an early reveal in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump, the official website has officially revealed a Jujutsu Kaisen game for mobile devices. A teaser site is live for Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, which will be a free-to-play RPG with in-app purchases. Developed by …Read more »
Voice actor Jonah Scott lost his job as Victor in the game Mr Love: Queen’s Choice after he waded out into international politics by tweeting, “Taiwan is a country!” Mr Love: Queen’s Choice is released by Chinese mobile game company Papergames, and there is a …Read more »
Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka worked at Sega for more than two decades, then he became the president and CEO of the PROPE game development company. In 2018 he began working for Square Enix, and this past weekend he announced that he has left …Read more »
Voice actor Jonah Scott, who voices Legosi in BEASTARS, lost his job in Mr Love: Queen’s Choice, which is brought out by the Chinese mobile game company Papergames. An anime adaptation has been made of the same property. Scott got in trouble after tweeting, “Taiwan …Read more »
The Fruits Basket franchise is coming to Nintendo Switch’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons! The characters have their own island, and you can find it by using Dream Address DA-8458-4531-4562 and design code MA-0019-7722-5775. The island will have characters Tohru, Yuki, Kyo, Shigure, Hatori, Ayame, Kureno, …Read more »
Sega’s game Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles will come out later this year, and the company dropped trailers featuring gameplay with protagonist Tanjiro and his little sister Nezuko. Both videos are just over a minute long and contain English subtitles. Demon Slayer: …Read more »
The Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant is an old production facility that was first built in 1969, and it’s getting ready to take on a new life as a museum of sorts for the company. Tentatively referred to as Nintendo Gallery, the building and the land …Read more »
Super Smash Bros. series creator Masahiro Sakurai has a column titled “What Masahiro Sakurai Thinks About Games” in Weekly Famitsu magazine, and his latest column was headlined “Everything has an End.” Sakurai tweeted, “I’ve been writing my column in Weekly Famitsu for more than 18 …Read more »
Yesterday the Sonic Central livestream shared a bunch of Sonic the Hedgehog news. They’re putting on a free virtual Sonic symphony on June 23, which is Sonic’s birthday. The game Sonic Colors is also getting revamped and rereleased as Sonic Colors: Ultimate, and will be …Read more »
Pokémon GO released a letter addressed to “Trainers” that explains what’s up with the musically themed Pokémon GO Fest 2021, which will take place July 17-18. The first day will have four themed habitat hours—Jungle, Desert Mountain, Ocean Beach, and Cave, followed by raids with …Read more »
After Roger Craig Smith had voiced Sonic the Hedgehog for a decade, he and Sega announced earlier this year that he would no longer have the job. This news wasn’t exactly thrilling to many fans, as they already knew Smith’s voice as Sonic from Team …Read more »
The blog on the official PlayStation site posted an interview with Final Fantasy VII Remake director Tetsuya Nomura on the Yuffie Kisaragi chapter in the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade. Asked about his headspace when he designed Yuffie for the original 1997 game, he …Read more »
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