Good news: Monolith Soft’s excellent open world Wii RPG Xenoblade Chronicles appears to have been reprinted. Bad news: the game is still a Gamestop exclusive in America, and Gamestop is price-gouging the crap out of the rare title.
Following nearly two years of failing to meet their own sales expectations, Nintendo announced today that they’ve managed to get back into the black again by posting a healthy $88 million dollar profit for the first quarter of the 2013 fiscal year.
It’s not exactly breaking news that the Wii U hasn’t been doing so hot ever since release. Last week, Nintendo global president Satoru Iwata finally gave a frank and candid response to the company’s lackluster console unit sales; citing, among other things, a lack of mainstream …
For the last six years, Wii users have had to rely on disposable AA batteries or third-party battery packs to keep their Wii Remotes powered. That may change soon, as a recent online survey posted by Nintendo hints that the company may finally offer an official, …
The Dragon Quest series has a dedicated fanbase of millions worldwide. Countless players have spent endless hours adventuring across the franchise’s expansive world on a multitude of platforms, but primarily on the PS2 and DS. Still, when a developer decides to make the switch from an …
Latchkey Games is a weekly column that takes a look at games that perhaps didn’t quite get the amount of love they deserved: whether it was a game that was panned on its initial release only to become a cult classic, one that stirred the ire of …
THQ’s most popular franchises, like Saints Row and Metro 2033, have already found new homes following the publisher’s bankruptcy. While other third parties were quick to snatch up some of THQ’s IPs, some of their other series’, such as Vigil Games’ Darksiders, have yet to be …
Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio behind divisive cult favorites like Killer7, No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned, and the upcoming Killer Is Dead, has been acquired by publisher GungHo Online entertainment, the company announced today.
Today Disney confirmed that Junction Point Studio, the development team that created the Epic Mickey series, has been shuttered. The studio was run by legendary game designer Warren Spector, best known for his work on the Deus Ex series.
Don’t trade in that Wii just yet: XSeed announced today that the last of the “Operation Rainfall trilogy,” Pandora’s Tower, will finally be released on North American shores this Spring.
The Earthbound/Mother series is (at least among a certain hardcore contingent) one of Nintendo’s most beloved franchises, but new releases in the series have been few and far between. Thankfully, we may be seeing more of the series soon, as Earthbound’s creator and popular Japanese author …
