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NIS America’s bright and breezy Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook is marinating ahead of its 23rd May release on PS5 and PS4, but you can try a free demo on either Sony system today. Most importantly, if you pick up the main course at launch (or later), your appetiser progress will transfer. “Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook is an all-you-can-eat ...

By 1992, physics-based platformer Gimmick! had moved to the 16-bit SNES despite being one of the best-looking NES games. The Sunsoft release, only available in Japan and Scandinavia, has developed a cult following over the years. Re-release, right? PS4 will do that on July 6, 2023. Bitwave Games will ensure a flawless port with quality-of-life features like save states, rewind, ...

Capcom’s unstoppable. The Japanese publisher’s fiscal year results are its best ever. It’s crazy that this is the company’s sixth straight year of record-high profit. Since Monster Hunter: World and Resident Evil 7 revitalized it, it’s grown. Success continues. Capcom sold 41.7 million games last year, a record. We suppose this happens when you keep making bangers. Capcom’s dominance has ...

Reflectile’s Kickstarter may appeal to Nintendo DS fans. It’s a stylish new precision puzzle game by aspiring indie developer Joe Aquiare, a six-year professional software and game developer on team projects. Reflectile will be ported to Switch if $35,000 is raised. With 11 days left, it’s at $8,500 (with a $15,000 PC release goal). You’ll control a small tile that ...

Speedrunners will return for Tears of the Kingdom on May 12. IGN interviewed Breath of the Wild speedrunners ‘Player 5’ and Tom “Tallest Thomas” Rasmussen about starting over in Tears of the Kingdom and what they expect from the sequel’s early days. Fuse, Ascend, Recall, and Ultrahand are expected to change the game, and both speedrunners are excited: Player 5: “I’m ...

If you’re curious about Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which releases this week for Switch, but haven’t played Breath of the Wild or the series, don’t worry. In the ninth volume of Nintendo’s ‘Ask the Developer’ series, Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma said Breath of the Wild or previous Zelda experience wasn’t needed to play the sequel, as it’s “easy to ...

Nintendo’s final fiscal year 2023 financial report shows Switch’s top-selling games. In February, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet entered the top ten with only one month of data, and this time, Game Freak’s latest is still in the top ten with 22.10 million units sold (as of March 2023). In fact, almost the entire list is the same as last quarter, ...

Update #2 : Bitwave Games has announced that Gimmick! Special Edition, originally published by Sunsoft on NES in Japan and Scandinavia, will release on Switch and other platforms on July 6, 2023. Bitwave also announces a physical edition for Switch and PS4 “later in the year” in the above trailer. Update #1 [Thursday, August 18, 2022, 13:15 BST]: Bitwave Games ...

After Uncharted’s unexpected success, PlayStation Productions’ next film, Gran Turismo, looks promising. Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings) and David Harbour (Stranger Things) star alongside Archie Madekwe as real-life gamer-turned-pro-racer Jann Mardenborough. “I’m really happy with the approach that they took to this because I think we all know, unfortunately—I mean, it’s just a thing—video game movies don’t work,” Harbour ...

Walkabout Mini Golf, coming to PSVR2 on May 11, brings the best parts of mini golf to a fantastic virtual world with realistic physics. It looks like a hole-in-one. You can play alone or with up to eight people on 16 courses in two difficulties, each with 18 holes. With more courses planned quarterly, you could get lost in a ...