Felix Sanchez, video producer What’s on the menu this weekend? Well, aside from my grandma’s wonderful cooking, we have Pikmin 4 and Outer Wilds! Both are space-based, but very different games. Pikmin 4 really surprised me with how good the gameplay loop is, and all the music tracks are just sublime. And Outer Wilds surprised ...
There was a time, long ago, when games were finished by the time they hit retail shelves. But now we’re in the 21st century, and more often than not, post-launch add-ons are released months after development on the main game is complete, enriching the experience. Today, there are tons of games that get DLC, expansions, ...
Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was a huge undertaking for Nintendo, and the company called on a number of development teams to help out. As you may recall, one of those developers was the Xenoblade Chronicles team at Monolith Soft. Now that Tears of the Kingdom is out, the Japanese ...
Image: Nintendo / Monolith Soft Japanese developer Monolith Soft is growing year by year. In a previous update – dating back to 2021, the company revealed that its headcount had jumped from 261 (as of December 2020) to 272. As pointed out by Twitter user and gaming enthusiast Secretlythe latest update for 2022 is a ...
Monolith Soft has become one of Nintendo’s top developers working on huge IPs like Xenoblade Chronicles and also assisting as a support team on multiple other projects. If the release of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 wasn’t already impressive enough this year, it seems the Japanese studio has provided assistance with Splatoon 3 as well. The company’s ...
Yep, that’s the Nintendo logo.photo: BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP (Getty Images) while Xbox other Sony are entering an acquisition arms race, Nintendo isn’t so eager to snap up a slew of game studios. IAt a recent investors’ meeting, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about acquiring game companies—a timely question for sure. “Our brand was built upon ...
Monolith Soft – best known for the Xenoblade Chronicles series in recent years – has become one of Nintendo’s top developers. It’s also supported some key projects like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Following on from its release of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition on the Switch last ...
Before Monolith Soft was developing the epic JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles, it was working with tri-Crescendo on Baten Kaitos. Since the GameCube era – which saw the release of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean in 2004/05 and Baten Kaitos Origins in 2006, there’s been no sign of a return, apart from a cancelled ...
