Samurai Shodown releases for Nintendo Switch releases on February 25, 2020, bringing the well-received fighting game reboot to Switch. Samurai Shodown has been praised as a high-quality entry in the long-running series, and now that it's done, director Nobuyuki Kuroki might be able to set his sights on another SNK series.Talking to Nintendo Life about the impending Switch release, Kuroki revealed ... more.

Here are two reliable gaming facts--if there's a major game that's not on Nintendo Switch, owners of the Nintendo console will want a port, and if a port is in the works, it'll likely be accidentally unveiled by a ratings board. This has once again come to pass, with GameXplain discovering that Catherine: Full Body and XCOM 2 Collection have both been rated for the Switch in Korea.Neither game has... more.

Microsoft is partnering with the military charity Outperform, Serve, Develop (OSD) for a new campaign where the Xbox-maker will donate as much as $250,000.Now through March 31, Microsoft will match every dollar donated to a new campaign, up to $250,000 USD. The money goes toward efforts that support the mental health and wellbeing of soldiers through resources like video games and tabletop games, ... more.

For Halo Infinite, the team at 343 Industries built more than a game. They also developed a brand-new game engine, Slipspace. Now, the studio has spoken a bit more about what that engine allows the team to do--and it sounds like a lot.Halo franchise director Frank O'Connor said in a video that the Slipspace engine was designed for "next-generation" game development, and also to be easier to work w... more.

Director Bong Joon-ho's thriller Parasite won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, at the 92nd Academy Awards and did something no film in history has ever done.Parasite is the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture. It beat out the other Best Picture nominees, which included JoJo Rabbit, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, Joker, Marriage Story, 19... more.

The month of love is here, and this episode of New Releases is taking a top-level look at some of the biggest games of February. The new month kicks off with The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics and closes out with One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows. In between, PS4 players can enjoy exclusives like Dreams and the Yakuza 5 remaster. Platinum Games fans can also revisit Bayonetta and Vanquis... more.

Though the GameSpot team is usually busy keeping up with the biggest releases, other times we're catching up on games we missed, replaying old favorites, experiencing classics for the first time, or just dabbling in odds and ends for a spell.Below you can see a sampling of the games that folks on the GameSpot team are playing right now, the reasons we're playing them, and what we love about them s... more.

This week's episode of New Releases is about exploration. You can start a new adventure with Journey to the Savage Planet or reach the conclusion of another with Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition. It's also a week of ports, as Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire comes to PS4 and Xbox One, and Aviary Attorney: Definitive Edition lands on Nintendo Switch. The PC crowd isn't getting left out either, as War... more.

There was a moment I had while playing Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch, which is currently only available in Australia and Europe. I had just finished my daily set of three exams to calculate my "Brain Age," the metric used to assess how strong and flexible your mind is. The lower the score the better, and 20 is the absolute best you can get. Anyway, the disembodied head of Dr. ... more.

Guilty Gear Strive has been confirmed for PlayStation 4, but if you're in Japan, you'll also have the option of playing it in an arcade. The arcade release of the game was reported on Arc System Works' website, and was picked up on and translated by Gematsu.While it's possible that the cabinets will make their way outside of the country, they're bound to be rare--arcades are still fairly common in... more.