King of the Kenner.
Following his retirement as President and COO of Nintendo of America, Doug Bowser has now joined the board of directors for toy manufacturer Hasbro.
This news come directly from Hasbro itself, with the firm confirming the appointment of Bowser alongside Carla Vernón, CEO of The Honest Company, a digital-first consumer goods company founded by actress Jessica Alba.
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Coming to Switch consoles this year.
Wishfully Studios’ sublime debut, Planet of Lana, brought some top-notch puzzle/platforming action to Switch back in April 2024. Indeed, we went so far as to give this beautiful-looking cinematic adventure a rather splendid 8/10 back at launch.
Now, its Swedish dev, alongside publisher Thunderful Games (now majority owned by Atari), has dropped a full 10 minutes of unedited gameplay footage from the game’s soon-to-be-released sequel, the cunningly titled Planet of Lana 2: Children of the Leaf. Oh yes.
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Realising the “simple concept” with limited resources wasn’t easy.
Although Pokémon has become a global powerhouse over the past 30 years, the series’ beginnings didn’t necessarily happen overnight.
In a special video message during the New York Game Awards recently (where Pokémon received the prestigious ‘Andrew Yoon Legend Award’ for industry impact), The Pokémon Company president and CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara reflected on the origins of the series and the challenges the team faced during the development of the original Pokémon games.
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And it might be one of the last significant ones.
Kirby Air Riders on the Switch 2 is content complete, but it’s not done with game updates just yet. Although fans were informed the team would be disbanding soon, game director and video game legend Masahiro Sakurai mentioned in December how there might be one more round of adjustments.
Nintendo’s Japanese customer support page on social media has now revealed new update data for Kirby Air Riders will be arriving soon. As for what riders can expect, there’ll apparently be various bug fixes and balance adjustments.
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Now, how about Spirit Tracks?
To get the Zelda 40th anniversary celebrations underway, Nintendo Music has this week added The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass soundtrack.
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New characters, new balls.
Just when we thought we were out, BALL x PIT drags us back in.
Yes, after being teased back in December, Kenny Sun has today announced that the immensely addictive roguelike will land its first free major update on 26th January — that’s just one week away!
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You were almost a Jill sandwich!
Resident Evil has a special place in my heart, and not just because it’s a stone-cold classic of gaming, a bona fide icon of the horror genre, and all that sort of guff.
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Meet the new boss.
Nintendo of America has a new President and COO, and during the 15th Annual New York Game Awards, Devon Pritchard made her first public appearance in her new role.
Introduced by ex-Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé and New York Times columnist Harold Goldberg, Pritchard appeared via a pre-recorded video to celebrate the Game Awards and the nonprofit ‘Playing With Purpose’ writing programme, which looks to provide workshops in journalism and game narrative writing in school across New York.
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Complete global saturation.
Resident Evil Requiem, the next mainline entry in Capcom’s survival horror series, is scheduled to launch in just over a month on 27th February 2026. It seems, however, that Capcom might have another title lined up for a reveal later this year.
According to Dusk Golem, who has had a history of accurately reporting Capcom’s plans for Resident Evil, the company will be announcing a remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica in 2026 (thanks, VGC).
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When legacy becomes a liability.
After nearly two decades of dormancy for the series and an infamously drawn-out development cycle, it feels slightly surreal to now have Metroid Prime 4: Beyond in the rearview. The game arrived under immense expectation, and it’s fair to say it ultimately proved more divisive than Nintendo and developer Retro Studios had hoped.
If Metacritic scores are anything to go by, Prime 4 reviewed well but stopped short of the near-universal acclaim enjoyed by the original trilogy. It’s been described as a game of ‘high highs and low lows,’ a characterisation that I feel broadly holds true. In hindsight, though, it’s a game I wish I could have experienced with less of the noise that surrounded it.
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