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Intrepid Studios has shut down in a way that I did not expect. What I can share is what I experienced. On January 28, toward the end of the workday, I was informed that we would be laying off 100 developers. I was devastated - these are hardworking people who were going to lose their jobs. Still, I believed it was something we could face together and find a path forward from.

The big new mechanic for this title is that instead of Zone Shots from Mario Tennis Aces, you can equip each character with a different racket, similar to how you can choose between a range of vehicles in Mario Kart. Every racket features a different special ability that you can charge up by rallying back and forth. When the gauge is full, you can unleash a Fever Shot to potentially devastating results.

According to Obsidian boss Feargus Urquhart, Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 didn't meet expectations. "They're not disasters," Urquhart told the outlet. "I'm not going to say this was a kick in the teeth. It was more like: 'That sucks. What are we learning?'" The disappointing sales for these two semi-open-world RPGs have Urquhart thinking "a lot about how much we put into the games, how much we spend on them, how long they take."

Square has decided to muddy things up further by giving us Dragon Quest VII Reimagined before the expected Dragon Quest IV HD-2D Remake. What's more, Dragon Quest VII Reimagined utilizes bright, cartoony 3D character models instead of the HD-2D pixel art style of the earlier remakes. Thankfully, the models animate well, and they look particularly cool in battle. Ooooh, let me say that again: Dragon Quest fans are "spoiled for choice these days." Shiver Reimagine Dragons

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds was a pretty solid release for Sega in 2025. Certainly the fans seemed chuffed about it, and the critic reviews were good, too. Indeed, Sega's latest financial results are quick to praise the game's Steam user rating and its Metacritic score. But it turns out, they aren't quite so happy with the sales numbers. The document confirms what we heard at the end of 2025: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has sold 1-million+ copies.

It's Christmas of 1994, and I am 16 years old. Sitting on the table in our family room next to a pile of cow-spotted boxes is the most incredible thing in the world: a brand-new Gateway 66MHz Pentium tower, with a 540MB hard disk drive, 8MB of RAM, and, most importantly, a CD-ROM drive. I am agog, practically trembling with barely suppressed joy, my bored Gen-X teenager mask threatening to slip and let actual feelings out.

It included an allegation by an alleged Jeffrey Epstein victim who accused Benzies of sexual assault. He denied the allegation via a spokesperson in a statement shared with Kotaku. "These allegations are false, I had a 3 months consensual relationship with this person, and I have never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor have I ever visited his island, his properties or travelled on his plane. Any suggestion otherwise is misleading," the statement reads.

Lunar New Year is an annual seasonal event in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This is a worldwide holiday observed in-game, and it always coincides with the start of the real-world Chinese New Year each year. In this guide, we'll discuss all the festivities and items you can unlock during Lunar New Year. The date for the event varies each year.

On Tuesday, as spotted in a press release about Take-Two's Q3 2026 earnings results by IGN, the company confirmed that it plans to start marketing Grand Theft Auto 6 sometime in summer, which seems to indicate that the game, which has been delayed a few times now, is actually (for real) getting close to launching later this year. "I feel good about it. Very good about it," said Zelnick when asked by the outlet how he felt about GTA 6 's November 19 release. "Of course, because any time you're getting closer to marketing beats, you're obviously in a place where your confidence level is as high as it can be."

When a video game series goes on for a long time, it raises a question for newcomers: Just where is the best place to jump in? In the case of Dragon Quest, there are nearly a dozen mainline titles, not to mention copious spinoffs and ports that span four decades of history. Of late, though, publisher Square Enix has been releasing a number of remakes that serve as almost ideal entry points for beginners who are intimidated by all of that baggage.

Cairn has also entered Steam's Top Sellers chart and is currently on the eighth spot, behind the likes of Nioh 3, Arc Raiders, and Dead by Daylight. As per SteamDB charts, Cairn reached a peak concurrent player count of 14,996 over the weekend. At the time of writing, nearly 7,000 Steam users were in the game. PS5 sales figures for the game aren't available. On PC, Cairn is available via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG.

punishing dodge and parry windows are one of the RPG's defining characteristics . Enemies basically do a little dance before they bring their weapon down on your party, and you're expected to memorize and dodge every pattern lest you end up dead before your Gommage. Naturally, fans took this as a challenge, and one person has finally beaten Sandfall Interactive's GOTY sweeper without taking any damage.

For Civilization VII-which launched just shy of one year ago-the struggles seemed to go deeper, with some players saying it didn't feel like a Civilization game. Civ VII' s developers, Firaxis Games, announced today it is planning an update this spring called "Test of Time" that rethinks a few unpopular changes, in some cases replacing key mechanics from the original release.

"We're really anxious to see how players respond," Kubit said about the Silvermoon revamp. "If it's positive, I think it opens up a bunch more storytelling opportunities."

"I was terminated by Ubisoft, effective immediately," he wrote. "This was not my decision."

Season 29 will be the final update for Apex Legends on Nintendo Switch.

It's no secret that Cassette Boy is inspired by the classics. It's a top-down adventure game in the vein of a retro Legend of Zelda, while your home base is a small town like in an older Pokémon game, complete with a mom who is constantly wishing you well. The game's blocky 3D graphics evoke Minecraft, and you save at campfires that reset the world, like a FromSoft game.

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A thriving fan art community is always a sign of an entrenched playerbase. , Valve's secretive MOBA hero shooter, is currently teeming with creations all over social media that span the big three categories: horny, cute, and funny. In a way, these are perfect descriptors for the overall vibe of the latest six heroes to join the roster, which, alongside a plethora of additions and visual tweaks introduced in last week's big update, have led to a newfound momentum worth paying attention to.

To mark the new-gen upgrade and the arrival of the Meetup in Bellabel Park DLC, Nintendo is also rolling out three brand-new amiibo tied to the game. Each one costs $24.99 and they all launch on March 26, the same day the new content goes live. Pre-orders are already open. The lineup includes Elephant Mario, Captain Toad with a Talking Flower, and Poplin with Prince Florian.

She is the glue that holds our family together. But right now, I am kicking her ass at video game bowling, and it feels good! In the 00s, my mum was the best Wii Bowling player in the world. She was unbeatable. Strike after strike after strike. The Dudette in our family's Big Lebowski. So when she said she was coming to visit us in Canada, I thought the time was right to buy the updated Nintendo Switch Sports version of her favourite game.

That means that if you've been saving up your Atoms, the premium currency used to purchase items, either by completing daily and weekly challenges or by slowly accruing them through your monthly $13 Fallout 1st subscription, you'll still have to shell out an extra $30 just to get this fancy-looking skin. All of Fallout 76 's seasonal updates are free, but that's not making it any easier to swallow for some fans.

After weeks of waiting, Arc Raiders developer Embark has officially unveiled the first few months of the game's 2026 roadmap. The plan is split into four months, covering January to April, collectively dubbed Escalation. We're expecting a content update each month, with the majority of the biggest additions happening on the game's existing maps. There is, however, at least one new map in the works, but it won't be here until sometime in April.

The official "KPop Demon Hunters" Roblox experience is keeping fans of the franchise engaged with an update that includes the Saja Boys and other assets from the popular film.

What this means for the future of , once pitched as the first building block in an ambitious open-world metaverse , is currently unclear. But apparently the mission, the shooter's highest-profile bit of upcoming content, is canceled. Build a Rocket Boy and IO Interactive didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. The most surprising part of Insider Gaming 's report is that Build a Rocket Boy was apparently the one pushing to end the ill-fated partnership, a decision influenced by the 's "desire to bring its publishing in-house and gain more control over its future."

Undisputed is a boxing title that promises an authentic and visceral recreation of the sport. The game features over 70 licensed fighters and a deep set of fighting mechanics that allows players to strategise and take control of the bout. The game also comes with plenty of modes and features that lets players create their own boxer, play amateur tournaments, rise through the ranks, and eventually become the undisputed champion in the career mode.

If you're a fan of SimCity, then you'll appreciate IsoCity, an open source simulation game. The premise is the same. Start with land, build infrastructure, and try to maintain a thriving city. From the GitHub: IsoCity is a open-source isometric city-building simulation game built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. It leverages the HTML5 Canvas API for high-performance rendering of isometric graphics, featuring complex systems for economic simulation, trains, planes, seaplanes, helicopters, cars, pedestrians, and more.

Get ready to collect coins, punch vegans and be in lesbians with Ramona Flowers, because Scott Pilgrim EX officially has a release date! The 2D brawler, which was announced in June 2025, will release on March 3rd for PS4, PS5, Xbox Series S/X, Switch and PC. The game tells a standalone tale, but is a sort-of sequel to Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. In fact, I'd argue it's heavily based upon it.

As spotted by the eagle-eyed munchkins over at Gematsu, this new version of the classic Rayman has popped up on the Australian ratings board, indicating that a release should be happening fairly soon. Things get even more interesting when we look at the developer and publisher, both listed as Atari. The indication is that this project was handled outside of Ubisoft, which presumably contracted Atari to handle the project.

There is a simple answer to the best way to play Fallout: New Vegas, but the answer itself isn't what I would call simple or easy. The best way to play this classic RPG is on PC and with a ton of mods. Thankfully, there's a very handy guide out there that I used recently to turn New Vegas's somewhat messy PC port into a fine-tuned experience: The Viva New Vegas comprehensive mod guide.