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The Golden Joystick Awards 2023 are over, and we have the full list of winners. For Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom won the 2023 Nintendo Game of the Year. Larian’s RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 won “ultimate” game of the year. It won the show’s biggest award and several other categories. Other winners included Sea of Stars ...

Braid: Anniversary Edition was announced for the Nintendo Switch and other platforms in 2020. The latest update this week suggests plans have changed. The 15th anniversary version will release on PlayStation, Xbox, Windows, and Netflix on April 30, 2024. After the initial launch, social media confirmed a “Mac and Linux” release later next year. “April 30, 2024. Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, ...

Level-5 announced Fantasy Life: The Girl Who Steals Time would miss its 2023 release. Instead, it will arrive next year. On November 29, a special “Level-5 Vision 2023 II” event will bring an update to fans who missed it. Several titles will have release dates at this show: “During the show, we will be sharing the release dates for several ...

As ‘Eevee Day’ approaches, the next Pokémon Scarlet and Violet 7-Star Tera Raid Battle event has been announced, with no prizes for guessing the starring Pokémon (thanks, @SerebiiNet). Eevee will headline the event, which runs from November 17th to 20th. This special first-gen Pokémon with the Mightiest Mark and Normal Tera Type can only be caught once per save file. ...

Nintendo announced a new Indie World Showcase for Tuesday, November 14, 2023. Be prepared. The showcase will begin at 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET, 5 p.m. BST, 6 p.m. CET, and Wednesday at 3 a.m. AET, with “roughly 20 minutes of new announcements and updates on indie games coming to the Nintendo Switch”. We expect what? Who knows! However, ...

Some lucky fans have been able to play Atlus’ new tactical RPG Persona 5 Tactica before its release next week. According to social media and other sources, the Steam version of the game went live a week before its November 17, 2023, launch, allowing fans to play it early. Atlus and co. caught on, but players may still be able ...

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ‘Wave 6’ Booster Course Pass DLC for Nintendo Switch releases today. The last wave of DLC content brings the total to 48. Overall, the series has 96 courses to speed through. This update adds the Acorn Cup, Spiny Cup, and eight Mario Kart courses for the SNES, GameCube, Wii, 3DS, and mobile eras. Nintendo also added ...

Nikkei reported in August that Nintendo’s new development building was delayed due to an “expansion plan”. Nintendo didn’t mention this at the time, but its latest financial results briefing slides show that construction has been up-scaled to 2028 instead of 2027. “We had initially announced that a 12-story building would be completed in 2027, but we revised our original plan ...

In Warner Bros.’ Q3 earnings call, CEO David Zaslav said the company is transforming its “biggest franchises” from three- to four-year releases into “more always on gameplay” experiences through live services, multiplatform releases, and free-to-play extensions. Warner Bros. wants “more players spending more time on more platforms” to “drive engagement and monetization of longer cycles at higher levels”. It also ...

Today’s update addresses concerns that Level-5’s Switch release Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time may not release in 2023. A Japanese advertisement (via Ryokutya2089) suggests the game’s launch date has moved from this year to 2024. Level-5 hasn’t announced a delay, but the last major update was in February, when a trailer teased this RPG-inspired life simulator for ...