By all accounts, the Nintendo Switch looks like the sort of portable-console hybrid that many were speculating about ever since initial rumors about the new hardware first started to circulate. It’s weird to think of Nintendo moving forward without releasing a new, strictly stationary console. For many of us, the first time we ever played any video game was on the NES or SNES, so much so that it seemed perfectly normal to say “I’m playing Nintendo.”
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Not impressed with what you’ve seen from the Nintendo Switch so far? Nintendo has more surprises to share about the console in the future.
“We haven’t shown everything,” a spokesperson for Nintendo told the Wall Street Journal. The person added that Nintendo will announce more details about the console next year, ahead of its release in March.
A report from earlier this week stated that Nintendo would announce the Switch’s price and system specifications in 2017, which could be the details referenced in the statement.
We learned on Friday that Nintendo’s stock value dropped by 6.5 percent, one day after revealing the console. That’s a bigger drop than when Nintendo announced the Wii U in June 2011, when the company’s share price fell by 5 percent. Some analysts have doubted the Nintendo Switch’s ability to appeal to a wide audience.
For lots more on the Nintendo Switch, check out GameSpot’s recent coverage in the links below.
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Retailer Amazon’s exclusive lime-green New Nintendo 3DS XL has arrived.
As announced previously, the $200 bundle comes with a pre-installed copy of SNES game Super Mario World. The Virtual Console game normally sells for $8 on its own (via Polygon). Click through the images in the gallery below to get a look at the new system. Go to Amazon to order one for yourself.
In other news about Nintendo hardware, the company finally announced its new console, the Nintendo Switch, earlier this week. As reports had suggested, the system is a console/mobile hybrid that you can play at home or on the go. Pricing has not been announced, and might not be until 2017.
The Nintendo Switch comes out in March 2017. After Nintendo announced the console, its stock price dropped significantly and some analysts said they doubt the console’s ability to reach a wide audience.
For lots more on the Nintendo Switch, check out GameSpot’s recent coverage in the links below.
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It looks like Red Faction might be the next PS2-on-PS4 game.
European ratings group PEGI has rated the 2001 PS2 game for PS4 (via DualShockers), which suggests publisher THQ Nordic may be planning to launch the game on the new console. The ESRB, which rates games in the US, has not published a rating for a PS4 version of Red Faction.
The newest addition to the PS2-on-PS4 catalog was Rockstar’s Red Dead Revolver, which came out earlier this month. You can see all the games in the program here on the PlayStation Store website.
In other news about Red Faction, THQ Nordic announced last week that the game has been removed from Germany’s “index” of games deemed to be harmful to youth.
Nordic Games acquired THQ brands like Red Faction, Darksiders, and MX vs. ATV during the company’s bankruptcy auction. In August, Nordic Games announced that it had rebranded itself as THQ Nordic.
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Interested in Star Citizen but not sure if you want to pay for it? You’re in luck, as developer Cloud Imperium Games has announced that the game’s alpha is free to play all month long.
To get into the game, enter the promo code “Fall2016” at this page. Do that and you’ll get access to the game’s alpha and the F7C-M Super Hornet ship (pictured below).
According to DualShockers, Star Citizen’s alpha comes with features like dogfighting and some of its persistent universe. It’s not everything the game has to offer, but it should give you a taste.
Star Citizen remains officially unreleased almost four years after its crowdfunding campaign first began, though modular components of it have been offered to the public, including this alpha. One backer recently received a refund after complaining to California’s Attorney General.
In other news, the game’s single-player standalone game, Squadron 42, has been delayed out of 2016.
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In search of a 4K TV and an Xbox One? Best Buy has launched a new deal you may want to consider.
The store is now selling a 55″ Samsung 4K TV with your choice of Xbox One S bundles for $850. Xbox One S bundles available in this deal include the 500 GB Halo Collection bundle (includes Halo 5: Guardians and Halo: The Master Chief Collection), 500 GB Battlefield 1 bundle, and the 500 GB Minecaft Favorites bundle that comes with Minecraft’s Xbox One edition and DLC.
Go to Best Buy’s website here to buy the TV/console bundle. The offer is good through this coming Saturday, October 29.
Microsoft’s Xbox One has been the top-selling console in the United States for three straight months, starting in July and running through September. This is the first time this console generation that the Xbox One has been the No. 1 console in the US for three months running.
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The Deadpool sequel is moving forward without director Tim Miller, according to a report.
Deadline reports that Miller has exited the movie after a “series of creative differences” with star Ryan Reynolds. “He hadn’t formally signed a deal to continue, but he was developing the script and by all accounts had planned to return behind the camera for a film Fox will release in 2018,” Deadline said. The nature of the creative differences was not specified in the report.
According to Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr., the split was over “mutual creative differences” and is described as amicable in nature. Fox isn’t saying goodbye to Miller altogether, as he is expected to direct Fox’s Influx, based on the Daniel Suarez novel, that could be the first in a trilogy.
Released in February, the R-rated Deadpool was a smash hit. It made $782 million at the worldwide box office against a budget of $58 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
In June 2016, Deadpool 2‘s script was nearing completion from writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who are returning from the first film. The movie was at one time expected to start shooting in early 2017, though it remains to be seen if that’s still the case now that Miller has reportedly dropped out.
“We don’t want $150 million to go make the next movie; that’s not Deadpool,” Wernick said earlier this year. “Deadpool doesn’t lift cities up into the air or battle aliens coming down to earth; that’s just not Deadpool. So we’re happy in that little small budget range that they have us in; we don’t wanna blow this next one out.”
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn weighed on the report today.
Honestly bummed about Tim Miller leaving Deadpool. He did an amazing job with the first one; I’d like to have seen where he’d go next.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 22, 2016
Recently, a report listed off the actresses who are apparently in the running to play Domino in the film. For more on Deadpool 2, check out GameSpot’s feature, “7 Things We Want to See in the Deadpool Sequel.”
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Justice League director Zack Snyder has shared a new photo of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in his upcoming movie. The shot is a fiery one, with flames burning behind the Amazonion warrior.
#JusticeLeague #WonderWoman75 pic.twitter.com/mGJk6GupGd
— Zack Snyder (@ZackSnyder) October 21, 2016
2016 marks the 75th anniversary of the Wonder Woman character. Gadot and Lynda Carter, who played the character in the ’70s TV series, appeared at the United Nations on Friday where Wonder Woman was named honorary ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls.
“In some magical and mystical way, there lies within each of us Wonder Woman,” Carter told an audience, according to Entertainment Weekly. “She is real. She lives and she breathes. I know this because she lives in me, and she lives in the stories that these women tell me, day in and day out. I see it in the letters and in the stories. I read it on social media. I see it in the tears that fall from the eyes of the women who say it saved them from some awful thing that they endured–because they saw that they could do something great.”
The USPS is releasing Wonder Woman stamps this year to celebrate the character’s 75th anniversary. Wonder Woman made her debut in October 1941 in the All Star Comics #8 issue, though she was not the focus of it.
Snyder’s Justice League also stars Ben Affleck as Batman, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, and J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon. It opens in November 2017. Gadot will be seen next as Wonder Woman in the standalone Wonder Woman movie, which opens in June 2017.
This story has been updated and corrected.
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Amazon’s most popular subwoofer, the new DualShock 4, and Cuisinart cast iron cookware lead off Saturday’s best deals.
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Stephen ‘MrGameTheory’ Takowsky will be Civilization VI’s first professional player. That’s according to an announcement Team Liquid made yesterday stating it has signed MrGameTheory to head up their new Civilization team and was embarking on “an initiative to launch Civilization VI into the world of competitive esports.”
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