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Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball, and the character designer for Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger, has died. I'm absolutely devastated by this news. He was only 68 years old. Thank you for all of the amazing worlds you created, Toriyama. Dragon Ball has been a massive part of my life.

The other day for Pokémon Day, Pokémon Legends Z-A was announced as a Switch release for 2025. What are your hopes for this game to improve on Legends Arceus and for what you want to get out of Kalos as a region? Obviously a story focusing on Zygarde is a must. It was so neglected in X and Y...

Nintendo has posted a The Legend of Zelda Orchestra Concert from Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo to their YouTube today:

There have been rumors for several weeks now of certain Xbox games like Hi-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves, and Starfield making the jump to other platforms. Now Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, had stated to look forward to a business update event next week. We might have confirmation of Xbox moving...

With 3DS and Wii U online shutting down on April 8th, I've been playing a lot of the games from those as systems online and reliving some good memories. Super Mario Maker is an awesome time with amiibo costumes and 100 man remaining exclusive to the first game. Despite a small character...

Nintendo has announced that online play for the Wii U and 3DS will end in early April 2024. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/10/3ds-and-wii-u-online-play-ends-in-early-april-2024 Pokémon Bank will not be affected. What are your thoughts on this news? End of an era for free Nintendo...

I was thinking recently about how the Xbox Series X/S and Playstation 5 barely have any exclusives this year, and they haven't had too many throughout their lifetimes. Xbox saw the release of Redfall a few months back with Starfield just around the corner and Playstation had Final Fantasy XVI...

With it seeming like every day now that a new Switch successor rumor crops up, I thought it'd be fun to make a thread to talk about which past cycle was the most fun to talk about rumors. The Wii U and Switch both had fun rumor mills but for different reasons. Project Cafe, the codename for...

Earlier this week, I got a text from someone I met at my university orientation 10 years ago. We took some classes together from 2013-2015, but then he switched schools, and I didn't hear much from him. We ended up doing a follow-up phone call and talking for a good 40 minutes. It was nice to...

A new Prince of Persia game was announced today at Summer Games Fest. It looks extremely promising. Releases January 18, 2024 for PC, Playstation, Xbox, and Switch. Hopefully this is the start of a revival for the franchise.

Obviously calling something the best is very subjective, but it's impressive just how polished Capcom's games are in the era of games launching unfinished and buggy. Resident Evil and Monster Hunter have hit new heights in both sales and acclaim and Street Fighter 6 looks to continue the string...

The European Union has approved Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_2705 Per the deal, Microsoft will need to make popular Activision Blizzard games available on competing Cloud platforms. After the UK did not approve of the deal...

I figured we should have one of these threads to talk about what we're doing in TotK like we had for BotW. Feel free to share your progress in this massive adventure. I just got off the Great Sky Island and had a lot of fun up there.

The UK's CMA has rejected the Microsoft/Activision deal. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/microsoft-activision-deal-prevented-to-protect-innovation-and-choice-in-cloud-gaming The main reason cited is that this would lead to less competition in the cloud gaming space for UK gamers. The...

We lost a few download only Nintendo franchises when the 3DS and Wii U eShops closed earlier this week. The 3DS eShop also had DSiWare, so there were some IPs we lost from there as well. I wonder if Nintendo will bring any of them back. Most, if not all, have a relatively low chance of...

I thought this news was noteworthy enough to get its own thread. Viz has uploaded a lot of iconic anime that was licensed to them onto YouTube for free: https://www.viz.com/blog/posts/watch-anime-for-free-on-youtube The series included are Death Note, Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, Sailor Moon...

Tears of the Kingdom briefly went up for preorders on the eShop for 70 U.S. dollars. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/02/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdoms-switch-eshop-price-is-usd70-usd It's now been taken down. Gamestop, Amazon, Best Buy, and others have taken down their preorders so this...

IGN has published an article stating that the Big 3 won't be part of E3 2023 or on the show floor. https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-nintendo-sony-skipping-e3-2023?utm_source=syndication Between the last few years of no shows due to COVID and now this news, this pretty much seems to seal the...

Hi-Fi Rush, the new game from Tango GameWorks, the developers of The Evil Within games, is launching tonight for Xbox and PC. This rhythm-based action game looks amazing. I love the vibrant art style, plus the action looks pretty dang fun, and the character roster looks great too. Lots of...

The Switch is winding down with most people expecting its successor to launch some time between March 2024 and March 2025. Here are the major releases we currently know about: Let me know if I missed anything. I think we already have the first quarter of the year announced. I find it hard...

Yusuke Urameshi was the type of kid who's always been a bit of a delinquent. He'd mess up thugs, peek up girls' skirts, and land himself in way too many detentions to count. You might be wondering why Yusuke is being described in the past tense. Well, that's because he's dead. Yusuke has...

With the start of the 9th generation, Sony raised prices of some of its first party games to $70. Now Microsoft is following suit. Starting in 2023, major first party releases like Starfield, Redfall, and Forza will cost $70...

We finally got our first look at Indiana Jones 5 yesterday, officially titled Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. What do you think of the initial trailer? Harrison Ford always has good delivery of lines even with a weak script like in the latest Star Wars movies, and he shows that again...

It's hard to gauge just how well the Xbox Series line is doing because Microsoft stopped releasing hardware numbers starting with the Xbox One, but according to Vgchartz, the console has sold 18 million units. It's much more competitive than the Xbox One was against the PS4. But I feel like a...

Hello, everyone. I'm glad to be able to host Yu Yu Hakusho mafia, based on one of my favorite anime from the 90s. I think it still holds up incredibly well, so I recommend everyone check it out if they haven't already. Yu Yu Hakusho was the first shounen where the supernatural and demons were...

We got the first trailer for the Super Mario Bros. movie today. What are your thoughts on it? I think the animation looks great, and I also like Jack Black's Bowser voice a lot. I'm still not sold on Chris Pratt's Mario voice. I wonder what the story will be, but from the penguin scene, it...

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2022/220912.html Splatoon 3 sold 3.45 million in its first three days in Japan. A new record for a Switch game launch in Japan. Absolutely insane numbers. It goes to show just how big the series is over there. I wonder if regular gritty...

https://blog.playstation.com/2022/08/25/ps5-price-to-increase-in-select-markets-due-to-global-economic-environment-including-high-inflation-rates/ Sony is increasing the price of the PS5 in select markets as a result of high inflation. The new RRPs below are effective immediately unless...

XIII is a 2000s shooter with a cell shaded artstyle originally released for 6th gen consoles. The 2020 remake for PS4 and Xbox One was so bad that another developer is remaking the game again. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/06/xiii-remake-patch-fix Is this the first time something like this...

I feel like the Xbox 360 and PS3 are in a weird place where their games are old enough for people to feel nostalgia towards, but a lot of their games, especially towards the end of the generation, still hold up well graphically and design wise. That's why today's (finally) official announcement...

The Berserk manga will continue after the death of the author, Kentaro Miura, last year. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-06-07/berserk-manga-continues-under-kentarou-miura-assistants-kouji-mori-supervision/.186405 "The manga will first have six chapters that will go to the end of...

James Cameron's Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time with over $2 billion grossed. I remember so many people seeing it back in the day because of its then innovative and impressive use of 3D. Unfortunately, the movie hasn't aged all that well due to its lackluster story. It's...

The upcoming Mario movie has been delayed to April 2023, Nintendo of America announced on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1518756878251089921?cxt=HHwWgoCzxbDV2pMqAAAA The new release date is April 7 in North America and April 28 in Japan. This makes sense. We haven't heard...

So we finally have Sony's answer to Game Pass. The new Playstation Plus launches in June with 3 tiers. PlayStation Plus Essential Benefits Provides the same benefits that PlayStation Plus members are getting today, such as: Two monthly downloadable games Exclusive discounts Cloud storage...

I haven't seen anyone make a thread on this yet, so I might as well. BotW2 has been delayed to Spring 2023. This makes the gap between BotW and BotW2 the longest in franchise history. What are your thoughts on this news? Are you glad the game has more time to be polished, disappointed you...

The Switch is 5 years old today, and it has a lot of Nintendo's franchises represented on it from Zelda to Mario to Metroid to Kirby and with more to come, like Wii/Switch Sports, Advance Wars, and Mario Strikers. We've also seen some obscure revivals like Clubhouse Games and Famicom Detective...

Just thought I'd make a thread to discuss DLC tracks as they are announced/come out for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I'm definitely nerding out too much over this. We have the first 8 tracks confirmed: Golden Dash Cup: Paris Promenade (Tour) Toad Circuit (3DS) Choco Mountain (N64) Coconut Mall (Wii)...

One of the biggest announcements during the latest Nintendo Direct was that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe would be receiving DLC with past courses from the series. Three tracks were explicitly named: Wii Coconut Mall, N64 Choco Mountain, and Tour Tokyo Blur. But if you look closely, you can see a few...

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/ With the latest numbers from Nintendo, the Switch has passed 100 million hardware units and outsold both the PS1 and Wii. It's now the 5th best selling games system of all time behind the PS2, DS, Game Boy/Game Boy Color, and PS4. Well...

https://www.polygon.com/22910849/sony-buys-bungie-destiny-2-multiplatform-playstation Sony is acquiring Bungie, developers of Destiny, and formerly known for their work on Halo during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 days. It feels weird to see a developer so widely associated with Xbox now...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-killing-new-music/621339/ I was reading this really interesting article up above about how old music is killing new music. In the U.S., old songs are 70% of the music market. The article goes over a few possible reasons for this...

Pretty big news. Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for almost $69 billion. https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/ The press release talks about expanding into mobile and...

This has been in my mind for a few weeks, but what examples can you think of when games received a content update after official support ended? The idea came to mind after Super Mario Maker 2 received a new Zelda themed Ninji to celebrate the release of the Zelda Game & Watch earlier this month...

During the pandemic, we've seen quite a few game delays. Obviously the health of employees trumps finishing a game during these times. But even beforehand, we've seen games notoriously delayed for long periods of time like Duke Nukem Forever and, more recently, Metroid Prime 4. I'm curious...

We recently found out that the Demon Slayer: Mugen Train movie would be adapted in the first few episodes of Season 2 of Demon Slayer with the first episode aiming to flesh Rengoku out more. We've already seen something similar before with the start of Dragon Ball Super adapting the Battle of...

It's been coming for around a year and now it's finally official. Sony has acquired Crunchyroll from AT&T. https://www.sonypictures.com/corp/press_releases/2021/0809/sonysfunimationglobalgroupcompletesacquisitionofcrunchyrollfromatt This means that Sony now owns both Crunchyroll and...

This year's Tokyo Olympics introduced a number of mixed relay events for track and field and swimming with each team having two men and two women. Apparently this sort of mixed relay is becoming more common these past few years in the sporting world. I enjoy the variety these events bring, but...

This year's E3 was a little low on new game announcements compared to previous years. That said, it's understandable given that development cycles were affected by the pandemic. What do you think the best new announcement was at this year's E3? It's hard for me to decide between Metroid Dread...

I feel like Zelda games generally have good pacing with the story progressing and not spending too much time in one area. But once in a while, you get a game that isn't as well paced as the others. Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword are well known examples of overly long introductions. I...

Nintendo will no longer be selling Super Mario 3D All-Stars or Fire Emblem 1 on Switch after today. Additionally, Super Mario Bros. 35 will be removed. What do you think will happen to these games? I can definitely see Fire Emblem 1 being released for Nintendo Switch Online somewhere down the...