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Sega Throws Shade At Mario Kart While Showing Off Sonic Racing: Crossworlds
6.6.2025
At today’s Summer Game Fest showcase, Sega showed off Sonic Racing: Crossworlds. The kart racer is a big ol’ crossover event between the blue blur and other Sega characters. After previous leaks claimed Minecraft and Spongebob characters would join the racer’s roster, Sega revealed that several...
The Internet Reacts To Switch 2 And Mario Kart Sticker Shock
2.4.2025
A Nintendo Switch 2 will set you back $450. Mario Kart World will be $90 for the physical version. There’s a tutorial for the new hardware and its features complete with demos and minigames called Switch 2 Welcome Tour. It will also cost money. Nintendo is preparing to launch its most anticipated...
Chrono Trigger Still Blows Me Away 30 Years Later
11.3.2025
Occasionally the stars align and a once-in-a-generation group of creatives come together to make something spectacular and ahead of its time. That’s how Chrono Trigger was made, an RPG for the SNES that came out 30 years ago this week and still blows me away. Playing it was a formative gaming...
A New Godzilla Movie Is Coming From The Makers Of The Incredible Godzilla Minus One
1.11.2024
The team behind the best Godzilla movie in years is going to make another one. Takashi Yamazaki, who wrote, directed, and oversaw the VFX for Godzilla Minus One, revealed today in a brief video teaser that his team has been greenlit to work on a second Godzilla. Read more
Long-Lost Vita Exclusive Will Get A Second Life On PS5 And Switch Over 10 Years Later
18.9.2024
The PlayStation Vita didn’t have many standout exclusives, but the sci-fi action RPG Freedom Wars was one of them. The game by Japanese studio Dimps, Inc. about criminals forced to fight giant robots in a post-apocalyptic future seemed destined to be stranded on Sony’s ill-fated handheld, but in...
Yakuza: Like A Dragon Already Has A Live-Action Adaptation That Nails The Game's Madcap Vibes
29.8.2024
As with most live-action video game adaptations, Amazon’s Like a Dragon: Yakuza show announcement came with its fair share of anxiety from a vocal fandom, which built up even more as they heard about the production of the series that’s due out this October. Details like its actors being discouraged...
Parasite Eve-Inspired Cyberpunk Game Announced, Looks Cool As Hell
3.7.2024
Sukeban Games, the developer best known for 2016’s charming and poignant VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, has announced a new game. Titled .45 Parabellum Bloodhound: Cyberpunk Active Time Action, the new project is a moody, retro-inspired adventure taking major inspiration from Square’s...
Sonic Team Boss Explains Why Shadow The Hedgehog Doesn't Use Guns Anymore
10.6.2024
2005’s Shadow the Hedgehog game is a fever dream to look back on because of its dark tone, a striking departure from Sonic series norms. It included swearing in its dialogue, had its titular antihero use vehicles when it would have been faster to run, and most infamously had him using firearms...
Final Fantasy Maker Promises 'Quality Over Quantity' And Fewer Exclusives In Major Strategy Reboot
13.5.2024
Square Enix has announced that it will be moving away from releasing games exclusively to select platforms, opting instead to pursue multiplatform launches in the near-future to amplify the sales of its flagging games. It’s all part of “aggressively pursuing” a new business strategy after a...
Dragon Quest Producer Steps Down Amid DQ12 Delays And Square Reorg
5.4.2024
Earlier this week, Square Enix began undergoing a reorganization that has seen countless staff shuffled around. The restructuring is a bid from Square Enix’s new president, Takashi Kiryu, to address “flagging sales” of the company’s entire portfolio, from AAA games to mobile titles. As part of...
Copy of Godzilla Was The True Golden Boy Of The Oscars
11.3.2024
The Oscars award ceremony is a night for the stars of Hollywood to gather together and celebrate cinema, while also looking incredibly glamorous is lavishly expensive and immaculately presented couture. And yet no one at last nights awards—no one—could beat the hottest look of the night: a soft...
NieR 3 Already Exists, But Not For Long
29.1.2024
Nearly seven years after the release of NieR:Automata, fans are still clamoring for a third entry in the series helmed by Yoko Taro. While we are all eagerly awaiting another AAA console game in the DrakenNier universe, it’s easy to forget that a sequel is already available to play—but it won’t...
Square Enix Wants To Make Fewer Games
18.1.2024
During an investor call in November 2023—made public this week and spotted by My Nintendo News—Square Enix CEO Takashi Kiryu acknowledged the company’s failure to market much of its recent catalog, and raised intentions to “slim down” the publisher’s lineup. As in, publish fewer games.Read more
Two Decades Ago, The Most Underrated Sonic Game Changed The Series Forever
10.1.2024
Sonic the Hedgehog famously kicked off the video game mascot race of the ‘90sRead more
Square Enix in 2024 Doubling Down on Blockchain, AI, and Metaverse Technologies
3.1.2024
Source: jp.finalfantasy.com The Japanese gaming giant Square Enix reaffirmed its plans to utilize blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and metaverse in creating novel content for consumers. The Final Fantasy publisher’s Representative Director and President, Takashi Kiryu, has written...
Square Enix Will Be ‘Aggressive’ With Using AI For Development, CEO Says
2.1.2024
It’s just two days into 2024 and a major video game company is already talking about its big AI plans. If you thought we were leaving AI discourse behind in 2023, I’m sorry to tell you that you were very, very wrong. A New Year’s letter from the current Square Enix president details the Final...
German MP Joana Cotar Advocates for Bitcoin to Be Recognized as Legal Tender in Germany
17.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock/takashi tamiya German Bundestag member Joana Cotar has expressed his support for recognizing Bitcoin (BTC) as a legal tender in the country. In a recent interview, Cotar shared her ambitions to bring Bitcoin into the mainstream of German finance and discussed her plans...
Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s Goombas Actually Bite, Just Like Miyamoto Always Wanted
17.10.2023
Back in the day, you might have wondered: Hey, why does Mario take damage when he bumps into a Goomba in the original Super Mario Bros.? Turns out, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto had an answer: The enemies were biting you. We just never actually saw that happen. Well, that changes in...
Nifty News: Murakami to step back from NFTs, Dan Harmon's NFT Show debut and more...
23.9.2023
Takashi Murakami said he might step back from NFTs but stay involved in different ways, Krapoplis is set to debut on FOX this month and an NFT artist won a multi-million dollar contract dispute
Square Enix Loses Stock Value, Development Process Under Fire
13.9.2023
Square Enix is in a bit of a rough spot following financial setbacks and rocky game releases. While some titles like Final Fantasy XIV have delivered consistent quality and remained popular with fans, other entries from the series as well as newer games from the publisher have shipped...