Apparently Nintendo felt the old-school packaging for the NES Classic Edition (opens in new tab) wasn’t ’80s enough on its own, so it’s put together a new trailer bursting with star fields, glowing neon, and – most importantly – the slogan that started it all. Now you’re playing with power. …
Read More »Animal Crossing New Leaf is getting an update later this year to work with Amiibo
It’s been three years since we lost all the hours to bug catching and fishing in Animal Crossing New Leaf (opens in new tab) but that doesn’t mean it has to be taken out to the ‘farm’ where it can chase butterflies in the fields all day. Nintendo has revealed …
Read More »Why gaming needs more animals that don’t give a f*ck
You know that feeling when everyone knows that something bad happened to you – your dog died, you got fired, you’ve been diagnosed with incurable trench foot – and people start treating you really weirdly, like there’s some cosmic teacher who’s gone “now, class, be nice to Billy, and whatever …
Read More »Predicting the WWE draft: Reigns to Raw, Cena to Smackdown, Undertaker goes unmentioned
Tonight sees the biggest wrestling shake-up in years as WWE holds a draft to decide which superstars stay on Raw and which move to Smackdown, with the two shows set to be broadcast live on consecutive nights for the first time in company history. With Raw on Mondays being one …
Read More »Heres how Pokemon Go battles actually work
Pokemon Go (opens in new tab)’s battle system feels pretty hectic at first. Most people get the idea to tap as fast as you can pretty quickly, and if they’re truly Poke Masters they’ll start working in special attacks and dodges. But just like in the main Pokemon games, there’s …
Read More »Marvel Luke Cage series gets a sweet first poster
We got a look at some concept art for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (opens in new tab) and Doctor Strange (opens in new tab) ahead of this weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con (opens in new tab) a few days ago, and today it’s the turn of Luke Cage (opens …
Read More »Ghostbusters sequel “will happen” according to Sony
Although it failed to debut at number 1 in America, Ghostbusters (opens in new tab) notched up a respectable $46 million at the box office in its opening weekend. Perhaps more importantly, the reception from both critics and audiences has been generally positive, and it seems that that combination has …
Read More »12 things we learnt about Rogue One at the Star Wars Celebration panel
The big news from this week’s Star Wars Celebration Europe (opens in new tab) – that everyone has been talking about – is the Rogue One panel, which debuted a new poster (opens in new tab), an action-packed behind-the-scenes reel (opens in new tab), and a hot second trailer (opens …
Read More »Battlefield 1 beta coming after Gamescom by the looks of things
Battlefield 1 (opens in new tab) will be getting a beta “shortly after Gamescom” according to German community manager Sebastian Moritz. The info game out in a Twitch stream with CmdKrieger (translated here (opens in new tab), via VG247 (opens in new tab)). Gamescom is running from 18 to 21 …
Read More »Gears of War 4 Xbox One S release date and price confirmed by Microsoft
Ready your wallets, Gears fans. The special edition Xbox One S with the blood-red paint scheme and bundled copy of Gears of War 4 (opens in new tab) Ultimate Edition that leaked yesterday (opens in new tab) has been confirmed (opens in new tab) by Microsoft. The company is calling …
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