The Star Wars universe is no stranger to dismemberment, but this deleted scene from The Force Awakens is still shocking. When Rey and Finn travel to Maz Kanata’s castle, they find themselves among a crowd of unfamiliar faces. One such face, however, winds up being Unkar Plutt, who audiences saw handing out portions for scrap metal on Jakku. Still peeved that Rey “stole” the Millennium...
Motion controls are a touchy subject with video gamers. Some hate them, some love them, many are lukewarm to them, but the one area where we can all agree is that they shouldn’t be unnaturally forced into where they don’t belong. Luckily, Nintendo promises it will be a bit less abrasive with jamming the Joy-Con’s motion capabilities in our faces this gaming generation. As confirmed...
Nintendo’s biggest job over the next few months is getting people to buy a Switch. To do that, it needs to convince gamers that the games will be there when they pick up their console. With no games to play, it’s just a brick in your living room. The Nintendo Switch does have games, but you can count the number of launch titles on a single hand. Some say this is a black eye on the...
The design of the Nintendo Switch is unique, just like almost every other system from the company. The Switch might even be the first game console to inspire someone to make a stuffed animal. That, Nintendo says, was on purpose. The Wall Street Journal‘s Takashi Mochizuki spoke with Nintendo’s Yoshiaki Koizumi, who has produced and directed many of the company’s biggest games since he...
Just because a company is awarded a patent doesn’t mean it’ll turn into a product. But this is one case where we very much hope the patent becomes a reality. Microsoft this week was awarded a patent that details a device capable of being used in multiple configurations. One of the possibilities includes folding the device in half and using it like a regular smartphone, while other...
When Nintendo revealed the specs of the Nintendo Switch over the weekend, one of the more worrisome problems with the console was the internal storage size. Natively, the Switch supports only 32GB of space, and fans found that roughly half of that space will be taken up by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (if they go digital). Nintendo’s flagship launch title weighs a hefty 13....
Nintendo, already under pressure from its failure to make the NES Classic more widely available throughout the holiday season, is finding itself in the same boat with the Nintendo Switch. Around the Internet, retailers are claiming that they either don’t know how many consoles they’ll get in March or that they’ve already burned through their first round of pre-orders. The Big N’s next...
Yesterday’s Nintendo Switch presentation had a rather healthy offering of JRPGs to show off whether you noticed it or not. Dragon Quest XI might not have shown up and stolen the show, but plenty of other titles did. Whether they got a full segment dedicated to them or just a brief blip in a highlight reel, here was what we saw from the world of JRPGs last night. Xenoblade Chronicles 2...
In the run up to Rogue One, all anyone could talk about was those reshoot reports. After the movie hit, the discussion transitioned to that amazing Darth Vader scene toward the end of the film. Turns out, that was actually added in, according to Rogue One editor John Gilroy. Spoilers ahead We’ve already talked about why we loved that Darth Vader scene so much. Not only did it provide...
It’s been almost two years since I last gushed about Terra Battle, and indeed, it’s been almost half a year since I last played it. Other free-to-play JRPGs have come and gone since then, like Brave Frontier and a whole host of Final Fantasy mobile games, and I’m not even including the unhealthy number of hours I’ve sunk into Pokémon GO. I can’t imagine what my neck will look like in...