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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been a monumental success story for Nintendo. Seven years ahead of release and it still tops the charts. Now, it's catching up to Mario Kart Wii. The Wii's own Mario Kart game sold 37.38 million copies marking it as the second-best selling Wii game of all-time. Sports doubled that with 82.90 million, but that's beside the point - it was a titan in its own ...read more
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Various documents have been coming out from the ongoing Apple vs Epic legal case in the state of California, and here's a full rundown of the core of Apple's (pretty decent) defense. As part of this, Apple's lawyers executed what one can only call a drive-by on the Epic Games Store, which Epic's lawyers had been claiming was comparable to the App Store.
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Nintendo has reported updated Switch hardware sales data as part of its first quarter financial results. The company said on Thursday that Switch had sold-in (shipped) 89.04 million units as of June 30, 2021 – up 4.45 million units since March 31. In terms of actual sales to consumers, sell-through exceeded 85 million units at of the end of June 2021, compared to over 81 million units at ...read more
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The Among Us sensation is coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War when Season Five begins with a new game mode being added to the game. Treyarch Studios announced this week it plans to add a mode called “Double Agent” which tasks players with figuring out which of the 10 people in the lobby are the Double Agents. Weapons, equipment, and more from Call of Duty infiltrate this mode to give ...read more
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Rumors for Zombies Chronicles 2 have been rampant ever since the release of Zombies Chronicles during Black Ops 3 in 2017. However, since that release, there has been no official mention or hints that Zombies Chronicles 2 is in development. Zombies Chronicles contained eight remastered zombies map, which included Nacht der Untoten, Verruckt, Shi No Numa, Kino der Toten, Ascension, Shangri-La, ...read more
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For Epic Games Store users, Thursday means free video games, and this week is no exception. In fact, this time around, the Epic Games Store is actually offering one of the best freebies they've had in quite some time: A Plague Tale: Innocence! Additionally, users can score the quirky indie game Minit, as well. Both games are available now through August 12th. For those unfamiliar with how the ...read more
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Ubisoft has revealed that its upcoming game Riders Republic will be getting a closed beta later this month. Those interested in checking out the beta can register right here for the chance to participate, and players will be prompted to provide their platform of choice. The beta will be held from August 23rd at 7 a.m. UTC through the 25th at 4 p.m. UTC. Pre-downloads for the beta will begin on ...read more
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Even though the game itself was fully revealed earlier this summer, the Steam page for FromSoftware's highly-anticipated action game, Elden Ring, finally went live today. As a whole, the page is largely what you would expect and features a number of screenshots from the game in addition to the gameplay trailer that was unveiled a couple of months back. And while much of this wouldn't be anything ...read more
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New PlayStation VR 2 details have reportedly leaked via a developer conference. YouTube channel PSVR Without Parole reports that Sony held a 90-minute, behind closed doors developer summit for potential PSVR 2 developers earlier this week, and Upload VR later claimed to have verified that the event took place. Sony is reportedly keen to “move away from VR experiences and focus on ...read more
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An EA executive has called out the company's approach to acquisitions as an industry highlight, with a statement that may raise some eyebrows for a publisher with a mixed record of retaining the studios it buys up. When discussing the success of EA’s Codemasters acquisition and F1 2021 during the company’s recent financial results call, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said the game “exceeded our ...read more
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