The latest edition of the Nintendo Direct was held in early September, and fans of the gaming console manufacturer are eager to get a glimpse of all that it has to offer in the days to come. There have been quite a lot of title reveals, as well as announcements for the company’s future plans. Some of the key franchises...
This week Valve announced that they’re going to be entering the handheld gaming space by launching their premium Steam Deck handheld console later this year. The handheld will be running a custom version of the Steam OS, but players will be given the option to load whatever operating system they want (including Windows). The console will feature users’ entire Steam...
This week it was revealed that a demo of Super Mario Bros. 3 programmed by Id Software for the PC was donated to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. The demo was worked on by Id in 1990 as a peek at how the popular Nintendo Entertainment System game could have run on PC systems. The...
WNBA player Candace Parker made history this week by being selected by 2K Sports as the first female cover athlete for the NBA 2K series of games. Parker will be featured on the Gamestop-exclusive version of NBA 2K22 when it releases on September 10th. The custom cover is meant to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the WNBA, the first women’s...
This week Nintendo announced the upcoming release of a new Nintendo Switch console, which will bring an OLED screen on the tablet along with a larger screen and larger internal storage. The move comes after more than a year of speculation that Nintendo would be releasing a new console, although many were anticipating 4K gaming capability. This new model will...
A week ago news website PlayStation Lifestyle reported that there was a company named Simulmedia that was looking to implement mobile-style advertisements into console games. In that report, the company claimed that EA signed a deal to work those ads in. This week, EA denied those reports and said that they’re not currently looking at those style ads in games...
Sony is joining the game of purchasing third-party studios, as it’s been announced that the company is purchasing Finnish game developer Housemarque, who recently released the PS5 exclusive Returnal. The purchase price wasn’t known as of press time, but the announcement was made via the PlayStation Blog, wherein Hermen Hulst welcomed the Resogun designer into the fold. The company will...
After last year’s disaster that was the reveal of Halo Infinite, 343 Industries, and Microsoft gave the game a new reveal at E3 2021, showing off a game that certainly looked better than the version shown a year ago. Players were treated to an in-depth trailer during the Xbox + Bethesda Showcase, which showed off the campaign as well as...
Bethesda’s upcoming science-fiction RPG Starfield was shown briefly at E3 2021, and the company revealed that it’ll be a console exclusive for Xbox. This isn’t a huge surprise, given that Microsoft purchased Bethesda in 2020 for a whopping $7.5 billion. Still, the fact that Bethesda games are still coming to PS5 left a possibility that the game could have been...
Last week we predicted that Call of Duty’s Battle Royale mode would launch soon, and we weren’t disappointed. Activision launched Call of Duty: Warzone on March 10th, and thus far it’s been an awesome experience. The game features 150 player Battle Royale, where players are dropped into a large map that sees players duking it out for one man to...
