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After being teased yesterday, Netflix released the first proper teaser trailer for Castlevania: Nocturne, a new animated series that will debut on September 28. In the two years since the show’s announcement in 2021, we’ve only seen a few clips. Today’s teaser trailer introduced protagonists Richter Belmont and Maria Renard and showed the series’ revolutionary France setting. Kevin Kolde runs ...

DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing, a new Switch racer from GameMill Entertainment, will take the residents of Far Far Away, the Isle of Berk, Troll Village, and Kung Fu Panda’s world to the track. 20 characters from Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and more race around circuits inspired by these worlds. Each character has their own ...

Two DreamWorks games arrive in one day after years of waiting. GameMill Entertainment has also announced DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue for the Switch, joining DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing. This Petit Fabrik game is based on the Trolls movies and takes you on an original adventure through those cinematic fantasy lands. You can play as Poppy, Branch, or a custom troll ...

Ubisoft’s 2020 Switch open-world adventure Immortals: Fenyx Rising was surprisingly good, but a sequel seems unlikely. “Perceived challenges around establishing the IP” caused Ubisoft Quebec to cancel the game earlier this month, according to VGC. Ubisoft had planned to expand Immortals into its own franchise, but when it announced that it would focus on its bigger brands like Assassin’s Creed ...

Forever Entertainment, which remade Panzer Dragoon and The House of the Dead, teased more. After Front Mission 1st: Remake, a Famitsu interview hinted at more. CEO Zbigniew Dębicki stated (via Nintendo Everything): “I think even during this year we’ll be able to announce a new remake, so players can look forward to that!” He said the company wants to release ...

Since Ash Ketchum and Pikachu left the Pokémon animated series, we’ve naturally wondered what’s next. At San Diego Comic-Con 2023, The Pokémon Company showed off the Western dub of Pokémon Horizons, which debuted in Japan in April. Liko, the new series protagonist, visits Kanto and enrolls in school in the 11-minute clip above. This leads to Liko getting her first ...

There are plenty of beat-em-up games, but how many involve saving animals from evil poachers? This week, Nintendo Everything is adding Taito’s Growl to the Arcade Archives. Growl, released in 1990 in Japanese arcades and 1991 on the Genesis, casts you as one of four rangers who must stop a group of poachers from killing local wildlife. HAMSTER’s announcement trailer ...

THQ Nordic’s action-RPG Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy’s new trailer stars Trine veteran Pontius the Knight. The Switch release date is August 31, 2023. Pontius’ THQ Nordic description: Meet Pontius the Knight, Protector of the Realm, and also the biggest pie lover the land has ever seen! A real frontline hero who is always going headfirst into battle to protect ...

Dinosaur Polo Club is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its relaxing puzzler with a new ‘Miniversary’ update that adds three crossover maps to Mini Metro and Mini Motorways. Mini Motorways got London, Mumbai, and New York City, while Mini Metro got Tokyo, Warsaw, and Lisbon. The latter game’s update will add train station buildings, making traffic management more difficult. The ...

Pikmin 4 is big. We called Pikmin 3’s “hefty 30+ hour running time” in our review, and we weren’t alone. This makes it even more impressive that Pikmin 4’s director, Yuji Kando, admitted to playing through the main story mode “around 20 times” to fix bugs in Nintendo’s recent Ask the Developer series. Eiji Aonuma made a similar statement about ...