When you need to be broken up, you can do stuff like this.

As part of their annual D23 event, Disney held a showcase today to show off several upcoming games published both by the company directly and from publishing partners.

Putting the "giant" in "giant enemy crab" this time.

The latest trailer for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet has unveiled new details about the world of Paldea and its resident.

The story will focus on a "treasure hunt", though a group of delinquent students known as Team Star will be in the way of the hunt. A second story known as "Victory Road" after... Read more...

Featuring the best selling game of September, and also Splatoon 3.

Last week: Pac and Pal added to the Archives.

Welp, some of us have been charged for it and even gotten the 10% Gold Point bonus for it, but it's finally here: Splatoon 3 opens at midnight EDT Friday morning. Though it won't win the NPDs in September (NBA 2k23 comes out the same day and sells on... Read more...

Clearly Rosalina was sick of sharing time in Vancouver with the Random Number Goddess.

Mario Kart Tour is dropping a major update soon that will remove one of the game's most controversial aspects.

Beginning on October 5, Tour will add a "Spotlight Shop" where units and gear will be made directly available for purchase using the ingame "rubies" currency: alongside this, the "summoning... Read more...

Given their location, this is starting to make PQube into Galarian Nicalis.

A third developer has come forward with accusations of improper business practices by frequent Switch publisher PQube.

Thailand-based Corecell Technology developed side-scrolling action game AeteronoBlade II, which was published in Europe by PQube in October 2019 (it was self-published in North... Read more...

Guess that'll be on the menu at TGS.

Another hand of the Voice of Cards series is going to be dealt in a couple of weeks.

Square Enix have released a new trailer showing the third game, subtitled "The Beasts of Burden" and launching digitally on September 13. It is available for digital preorder now.

The series launched its first... Read more...

Paint is intended to be toxic, after all.

Smeargle will have some art competition in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

After some teases in recent days, the Pokemon Company has revealed the new Poison/Normal typed Grafaiai in a new video (below). Its abilities are Poison Touch (percentage chance to poison on contact) or Unburden (double speed if no item is held).

Trinity Trigger from developer FuRyu is due out on Switch in early 2023.

Trinity Trigger is getting localized and coming to the west in early 2023 courtesy of publisher XSEED.

XSEED will handle publishing the game in North America, while Marvelous Europe will publish the game in Europe. Trinity Trigger launches in Japan on September 15. A demo is currently available on the Japanese Switch eShop.

The story's been done, so it's just the final countdown now.

Another Nintendo mobile project will be closing its doors at the end of November.

After its planned closure was announced in March, the end of service for the Nintendo and Cygames collaboration has been confirmed as November 30 at 1 a.m. ET (10 p.m. PT on the 29th).

The game's paid currency... Read more...

Curl up with a caramel and hot fudge pizza - and accept that yes, this IS a Jojo reference.

Things we missed last week: Super Volleyball in the archives.

It's amazing that as soon as the calendar turns over to September, the games just start spewing like a firehose. For my money - which will be spent gladly this weekend, but mostly in various 3DS DLC shops (assuming you linked your Nintendo... Read more...

One suspects it'll be about as effective as a YouTube subscription box.

After multiple reports about running Switch games on PC, a major name in PC game DRM has announced Switch "support".

The Denuvo DRM frequently seen on PC games has been adapted to the Switch successfully, according to its creator Irdeto. The company claims more than a thousand PC titles use the... Read more...

"And be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell because YouTube's subscription boxes are about as useful as inhaling a Gordo."

Following the completion of Smash Ultimate, series lead Masahiro Sakurai is taking his talents to YouTube.

The technically independent developer has opened a channel called "Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games" that will go into his design philosophies and knowledge.

Sakurai had been posting... Read more...

Some pretty damning accusations made toward a regular Switch publisher.

A frequent Switch publisher is being accused of predatory business practices involving the release of an independent game planned for release shortly.

A Space for the Unbound is an adventure game set in Indonesia, which was developed by the Indonesian developer Mojiken and published by Toge Productions... Read more...

If you did a drinking game with the Switch, would you still be sober at the end of it?

With Gamescom opening tomorrow, Geoff Keighley hosted a show tonight with a group of new announcements which included several Switch titles.

The beloved PC title is making its console debut.

Some tiny strategy will come to Switch at the end of next month.

City building strategy game Dorfromantik has been revealed for Switch release on September 29 as part of the "Gamescom Opening Night Live" show. It released on PC at the end of April.

The game involves placing board game-styled tiles in order to form new environments.

The only other thing missing from Nintendo's Hot Summer.

The Treehouse is going live on Thursday with a combination of inking and farming.

Nintendo have confirmed a Treehouse Live presentation for Thursday at 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m. PT) with three segments covering two games. Splatoon 3 will have two segments, showing new details for the singleplayer mode as well as showing off stages for that Saturday's Splatfest demo.

We're going to say this a lot for the next while, but Bandai Namco... slow your roll, will ya?

Things we missed last week: Archives title Metrocross (Namco).

Speaking of Namco, their successor Bandai Namco has two major releases this week as they have apparently decided to dump everything before the end of September (and then distribute No Man's Sky in the first week of October). SD Gundam... Read more...

Time to shake up a bunch of metas, and we don't mean slightly more expensive VR helmets.

The 2022 Pokemon World Championships have revealed new Scarlet and Violet details plus announced the location of the next World Championship.

A new trailer for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet has revealed the new Pokemon Cyclizar, a Normal/Dragon type that enjoys when people ride it according to the... Read more...

Did XC3 snuffing bomb? Not really.

Nintendo's traditional July was pipped by a couple of games, but it was still a good month for RPGs from the big N.

All data based on dollar sales from July 3 - 30 unless otherwise noted. Third parties can contribute digital sales, though Nintendo is among those that do not.

Hardware saw the... Read more...

...ok, Sunsoft's back, but did they really need a VTuber?

Gimmick is not the only title coming back from Sunsoft and City Connection soon.

A "Sunsoft is back!" presentation released on YouTube earlier announced that Ufouria: The Saga - the 1991 Famicom title that later re-released on the Wii and Wii U Virtual Consoles - will also release in early 2023.