Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is still a bit of an enigma for No More Heroes fans, but it is hard to argue the game doesn’t have that old Suda style and that will probably be enough for a large number of fans. To further reinforce that idea, Suda is actually signing a special […]
The NPD, or National Purchase Diary, tracks retail sales across the U.S. on a monthly basis including for gaming, occasionally receiving and reporting data from digital sales as well depending on the publisher. While Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 beat out Red Dead Redemption II last month in part due to how much earlier […]
A few years back, when IO Interactive was still working with Square Enix to publish the recent reboot of Hitman, the developer was big on surprise seasonal content. One of the most memorable missions put Agent 47 in a Christmas-themed mission in the first season’s Paris level and involving both Santa Claus and some rascally […]
Update: Backpack Kid, the minor who allegedly originated the Floss dance that has become a core part of Fortnite’s cultural identity, is also filing suit against Epic, according to TMZ. To be more accurate, his mother and his manager are filing suit over the use of his dance. The firm representing the sixteen year-old are […]
Microsoft corporate vice president and head of 343 Industries Bonnie Ross is set to become The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’ 23rd Hall of Fame recipient. Ross has been a part of the game industry since 1994, when she joined Microsoft’s PC sports division to work on NBA Full Court Press. Since then, Ross […]
Hideki Kamiya of PlatinumGames, famed Japanese director behind games like Devil May Cry, Okami, and Bayonetta, has already gotten a bit of Smash Bros. representation from the Umbran witch. She was introduced as DLC in the last Super Smash Bros. game and is part of the base roster in Ultimate, but Kamiya was seemingly looking […]
Update (12/18/18 at 12:20 p.m.): During a livestream today, Media Molecule announced that Dreams is getting a closed beta beginning tomorrow. Invites will be sent exclusively to those following Media Molecule’s community newsletter, and it will last from December 19 to January 21. For the open beta, it won’t begin until early next year. No date […]
Arkham Knight was the antagonist in Rocksteady Studios’ 2015 release Batman: Arkham Knight (surprise). The studio made a big deal about the fact that it created the character specifically for the game, but now Arkham Knight has come full circle and will appear within the comics. The 1,000th issue of Detective Comics is right around […]
The NPD Group (via a Nintendo press release) has declared that through its first 21 months on sale in the U.S., Nintendo’s Switch console is the fastest-selling system of this generation when compared to the other consoles over the same period. From March 2017 to November 2018 the Switch sold more than 8.7 million units. Nintendo […]
Windows Central is reporting from multiple sources that Microsoft’s full-featured next-gen system is codenamed Anaconda, while the more pared-down, streaming version is codenamed Lockhart. At E3 this year it was reported that Microsoft is internally referring to its next-gen family of systems as “Scarlett,” and Windows Central’s recent report puts Anaconda and Lockhart within that family. […]
