Image: Koei Tecmo via Nintendo Video game companies around the globe have been preparing for 2022 for some time now, and it includes Koei Tecmo. In an end-of-year 4Gamer feature, the Japanese company teased what’s to come in the new year. Apparently, it intends to reveal a number of projects that have been in development ...
Image: Nintendo Life / Zion Grassl Over the holidays we’re republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, frivolity, retro expertise, gaming ...
There were many highlights in 2021 – but few of them came from major publishers. There are reasons for this, apart from the pandemic. The little ones have determined the year 2021. Because many blockbuster projects have either been postponed until 2022 or have appeared in a difficult state (Hello, Battlefield 2042!), in 2021 little ...
The catch? It’s a mobile release by Liam Doolan 5 hours ago Image: @nakayuji After the release of Balan Wonderworld earlier this year, Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka announced in September he had started developing simple mobile games with Unity. Now, just months later, he’s done it – for the “first time” in 37 ...
Image: Nintendo Life Xbox’s new six-part documentary series celebrating the 20 year history of Microsoft’s console gaming division has a lot of company secrets and industry insights and one highlight from a Nintendo perspective is a brief segment about motion gaming in Chapter 5. In the holiday 2006, Nintendo launched its new motion-controlled Wii console ...
The present and the future of the video game industry cannot be understood without the past, those years in which everything was experimentation, there was nothing settled and you had to squeeze your brain more than ever. In this field few stood out more than Masayuki Uemura. The former Nintendo engineer passed away on December ...
image: Game Workers Australia Game Workers Unite Australia, an organization that was previously a counseling and support organization, announced today that it will transition to a full union early next year. In its previous form, GWUA had “supported and empowered workers to build a better games industry” by providing information and guidance to anyone wishing ...
More will be shared at The Game Awards. It’s been announced the Summer Game Fest will be returning in 2022…next Summer. There are no other details just yet, but apparently, more information will be revealed during The Game Awards. Geoff Keighley – the host and organiser of both events – shared the following message (below) ...
Image: Nintendo If you’ve been wondering what the developer MercurySteam is up to now that Metroid Dread is available on the Nintendo Switch, it appears it’s already got a brand-new game in the works. The Spanish-based studio is teaming up with Digital Bros and its publishing division 505 Games for a new title codenamed “Project ...
Xbox, as you’ve probably heard by now, is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary. It’s come a long way over the past few decades, and as part of this milestone, it’s gone and created a virtual museum, which some users and outlets are referring to as a ‘metaverse‘, where you run around as an avatar in ...
