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LEGO legend of Zelda announced!
Ocarina of Time and Breath of the Wild Deku Tree set with mini figures
Nintendo bought Shiver entertainment
Mostly known for ports to low spec devices
Saved from the Embrace of Death
The timing of the episode making fun of Xbox is pretty spectacular
It’s such a good episode too
Due to a rough fiscal year, including FF16 and Rebirth, Square Enix is shifting to a multiplatform strategy.
Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC
Interestingly, just 1 year ago they were still very interested in exclusivity deals
I loved Neo TWEWY so much.
Reynatis, spiritual successor to the canceled FF Versus 13, getting a pretty extensive collaboration with it is pretty wild
Comes out in the west in September!
“Hi-Fi Rush is too small for Gamepass”
“Call of Duty is too big for Gamepass”
What are we doing here
Gamepass saw massive growth from the Pandemic Boom.
Seemingly spurred Microsoft execs into investing more on Xbox, leading to the acquisition of Bethesda and Activision.
Gamepass growth stalled in 2022 and hasn’t grown much since. It’s why we’ve seen drastic measures since last holiday
🤷♂️
I’m sure if they throw another 50 billion they’ll finally make it work
Microsoft is shutting down a lot of studios they bought just a few years ago
Including the studio behind the beloved HiFi Rush which just got a ps5 port
Also Arkane Austin that worked on Redfall and Prey
Nintendo Switch 2 will be announced later this year.
But before then Nintendo will have their “e3” Direct in June just for Switch 1 games
Nintendo Investors Report this week will seemingly contain mention of their next console.
While likely not a full reveal, might give us an idea of when it comes out
Nintendo investors report for the previous fiscal year will include the topic “the next game console and business impact of a hardware transition”
Should go up in the next day or so
Vicarious Visions was seemingly working on a 3D Donkey Kong reboot.
Cancelled by activision because they wanted the studio to do support work for Destiny and COD instead.
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Donkey Kong's Lost 3D Platformer & The Decay of Activision Blizzard
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Would COD only on Wii U save Wii U or tank Activision? Would’ve been really funny to see
Xbox seemingly shipped just 800k units worldwide from January to March.
We don’t have new PlayStation numbers yet, but Sony shipped 6.3 million PS5s in Q4 of the previous fiscal year.
Embracer is going through a bit of a rebranding.
Guess they hope people forget about how terrible they are.
“Don’t you love middle earth? Lord of the rings?? Little hobbits waddling about? Please don’t go”
I watched the famous one a few months ago. It has really cool puppets
Incredibly funny that Switch doesn’t get Persona reload but it gets a console exclusive re release of an very rare persona 3 spin off
Seems like Keanu will play Shadow in Sonic movie 3
People have been begging for it, so I think fans will be pretty happy.
(Me, I’m fans)
Eiji Aonuma’s directorial debut - Marvelous Another Treasure island is coming to Japanese NSO
My save got lost right before the final boss. Had to replay *the whole thing*
Really shows how little there is to the game. So much filler. Looks and plays pretty well otherwise.
The studio could probably make a cool sonic colors tier game while ST does frontiers
They’re gonna do that with monkey ball too.
Also in like 3 years it’ll disappear forever.
Very cool
More art for the collaboration.
Seems like it’s just this art work, but it’s been fun seeing more of Neo twewy
Love that game
No, guess KH is much farther off and SE doesn’t want to talk about it yet
Official Reynatis x Neo TWEWY artwork for April fools
Not sure if anything will come from the collab, but I love the art
Oh, and I just bought the book you recommended.
The niel Gaiman one.
Almost forgot, haha
It’s all I think about.
Been working on a story for 15 years now that I think people would love. But I’m doing research by reading a bunch of books in that genre. Got a lot of catching up to do.
Corn Kidz 64 is coming to switch on April 19th!
Only $6.99!
Tears of the Kingdom Link Figma
Deluxe version comes with a ton of accessories
REYNATIS／レナティス [Nintendo Direct ソフトメーカーラインナップ 2024.2.21]
【Nintendo Direct ソフトメーカーラインナップ 2024.2.21】https://www.nintendo.com/jp/nintendo_direct/20240221/【任天堂ホームページ】https://www.nintendo.co.jp/動画に含まれる情報は公開日時点のものです。
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Imagine creating a trailer that is *so good* that it led to the creation of 3 different games.
That is his power
Might just be interesting to me, but today they announced “FF Versus 13 at home”
Most of the creatives involved in the original are returning (Except Nomura)
Writer, composer, and art director from FFXV/Versus.
Tears of the Kingdom getting a full Figma figure set
Link, Ganondorf, and Zelda
While that didn’t help, $100 more for worse graphics is what probably mattered most
Article here www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...
Microsoft-owned gaming giant’s layoffs hit 162 Bay Area workers, offices closing
Microsoft-owned gaming giant Activision Blizzard’s mass layoffs will affect 162 Bay Area workers. Offices will also be closing as a part of the move.
www.sfchronicle.com
On top of layoffs, it seems like Activision is shutting down Toys 4 Bob’s facility.
Studio created Skylanders and rebooted Crash with Crash 4
Dinosaur Planet 64 (latest build with cheats) on Super Rare Replay
Microsoft giving up on exclusives is probably really big news.
Beginning of the end for their hardware business but probably for the best as a mega publisher.
Being the biggest publisher chained to 30M units doesn’t make a lot of sense