Nintendo has finalised an agreement with Dynamo Pictures for 34.5 million yen (USD$245,000) that will see the house of Mario acquire the Tokyo-based CG company. As part of the deal, Nintendo will be renaming it Nintendo Pictures, and integrating it into the vast Nintendo group by October 3 of this…
Read MoreRune Factory 5 is a game that nearly didn’t happen, on account of the Rune Factory developer going bankrupt, and then nothing but crickets on the property being saved for nearly a decade. For that reason, when this against-the-odds new entry in the series launched as a temporary exclusive Switch…
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In recent years, Bandai Namco has been very busy creating special edition Tamagotchis covering just about every fandom you can imagine. I still use keep the batteries in my Pac-Man one fresh. But I might need to retire ol’ friend Pac soon, because there’s a Hatsune Miku Tamagotchi on the…
Read MoreHailing from Osaka, Japan, X PLUS, the indie devs of Smelter, a similar game that has also been inspired by the pixelated era of retro platformer gaming, has announced an update in the development process for Bat Boy, which is expected to release at around the January 2023 mark. The…
Read MoreWales Interactive is easily one of the greater FMV game publishing companies right now; very little is released that I don’t want to get my hands on as soon as humanly possible. Once I do, I play them. Repeatedly. Generally, at least five times, then however many times it takes…
Read MoreBack in 2019 on Netflix a South Korean thriller series was released under the guidance of Kim Seong-Hun, called Kingdom. The series took place after the Japanese invasions of Korea in the 16th century and tells the tale of the political betrayal, the duty of ruling, and the mysterious illness…
Read MoreFormerly set to release on August 25, Idea Factory’s Jyuzaengi: Engetsu Sangokuden 1 & 2 for the Switch has instead been pushed back to a new release date of September 22, with a somewhat vague “various circumstances” being the explanation. The history of Jyuzaengi has its roots enveloped in the…
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Read MoreA mere two days after an announcement regarding Valkyrie Elysium’s official release date from Square Enix, we’re already being given a new release date trailer, not for Elysium, but for another of Square Enix’s September releases. They are busy bees. The DioField Chronicle is an upcoming strategy RPG game, developed…
Read MoreBlizzard is a company that has more than its fair share of negative publicity, especially more recently in the lead up to the big Microsoft acquisition. So as its development teams work on microtransaction-filled mobile titles, PR is on damage control to quell past mistakes and at least try to…
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