Super Mario Run’s not-so-super success
The days leading up to the December release of Super Mario Run were full of buzz and excitement about the beloved franchise’s latest iteration....
Nintendo shares Switch specs, still won’t detail its Nvidia chip
We know a ton about the Nintendo Switch. It’s $300. It comes out March 3. It weighs 398 grams. It supports IEEE 802.11 ac...
Media Create: Nintendo Switch fans in Japan have preordered more than 80% of launch shipment
In about a month, Nintendo will launch a new console, and you may have some trouble finding one in the publishers home country. Japanese...
Titanfall 2’s new Live Fire mode sounds like 60 seconds of heart-thumping action
One of the best games of 2016 is about to get an interesting new mode as part of a major content update. In February,...
Bob Bates starts an old-fashioned text adventure game called Thaumistry
Bob Bates, a veteran of 45 games developed, has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a new text adventure called Thaumistry: In Charm’s Way....
Penny Arcade and ReedPoP take PAX Unplugged to Philadelphia
Penny Arcade and ReedPOP announced today that they will stage a new gamer event called PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia. Announced during PAX South 2017,...
The DeanBeat: How Warner Bros. rescued Avalanche Studios after Disney buried it
Disney and Warner Bros. have taken very different strategies in video games, and Avalanche Software, the decades-old Salt Lake City development studio, was caught...
Squad Wars: Death Division is the latest attempt to make multiplayer shooters work on mobile
In Asia, first-person shooter games are very different from the West, where Call of Duty and Battlefield rule. In China, Crossfire is the big...
Nintendo ad shows off Switch’s killer feature: It works in the bathroom
When you gotta go, you gotta go. But now, you can take Mario Kart with you. Nintendo released a new 30-second TV spot for...
Classic games Myst and Riven to debut on Android
Myst was one the first great CD-ROM games when it came out in 1993, and its sequel, Riven, was also visually stunning when it...