Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer takes Nintendo’s animal village sandbox and strips away some of the elements that make up its open-ended community gameplay (think mail checking, tree shaking), zeroing on one specific aspect: home design.
Blastball is a new soccer-style game with guns from Nintendo. The publisher announced the new game at its World Championships event today prior to this week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow.
Total new physical game-related sales at U.S. retailers generated $507.6 million in May, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. That is down 13 percent from $584.9 million last year.