Author: Matt Wales

Following last week’s ratings board sighting, Nintendo has officially unveiled Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, which promises “over 150 challenges from across 13 different NES games” when it launches on 18th July. While last week’s ESRB listing suggested we might be looking at some sort of NES Remix revival – and that game’s…

Akane Austin – one of four studios closed as part of a shock announcement by Microsoft earlier today – was reportedly working on a major update for its embattled vampire shooter Redfall, that was set to release this month. That’s according to IGN’s Wesley Yin-Poole, who writes Arkane Austin was working on DLC…

Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra has rallied around Xbox boss Phil Spencer following Microsoft’s shock decision to close four of its game studios – including Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks – saying, “I know this hurts him as much as anyone else.” Ybarra made the comments on Twitter/X amid widespread condemnation of Microsoft’s…

Sony is giving all Playstation and PC players limited-time access to three Destiny 2 expansions – The Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep – ahead of The Final Shape’s arrival in June. Additionally, Destiny 2’s current expansion, Lightfall, is available to PlayStation Plus subscribers. The promotion, which Sony is calling Expansion Open Access,…

Apple has announced a refresh of its iPad line-up, introducing, among other things, a 13-inch iPad Air and the company’s first-ever OLED iPad model. As revealed during today’s Let Loose event, Apple’s most substantial iPad makeover has been reserved for its top-end iPad Pro, which now features a “tandem” OLED display capable of…

There’s something mysterious brewing over at Nintendo; a new listing for a previously unannounced Switch game, called Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, has been spotted on the US’ Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) website. Helpfully, the ESRB – which has rated the game ‘E’ for ‘Everyone’ if you’re curious – has a few…

If, like me, you haven’t been paying that much attention to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night since the buzz around its release started to fade, you might be surprised to see developer ArtPlay has just shared a brand-new post-launch roadmap – providing a date for the game’s final two Kickstarter stretch goals – some…

A little under a month after Nintendo successfully brought an end to open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, the company has managed to wipe out 8,535 Yuzu GitHub repositories – containing code from the original emulator – all at once with a single DMCA takedown notice. As reported by TorrentFreak, the culling occured after Nintendo…

Larian Studios has warned of a further – if hopefully short – delay for the Xbox Series X/S and North American PlayStation 5 versions of its fancy Baldur’s Gate 3 physical Deluxe Edition, caused by unspecified “production issues”. Baldur’s Gate 3’s Deluxe Edition was unveiled last December promising an assortment of appealing tat,…

Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy-adjacent free-to-play shooter XDefiant has – after several delays last year – been given a release date, and launches for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 21st May. XDefiant – a 6v6 mash-up of Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, and The Division – was initially revealed as Tom Clancy’s XDefiant back…