Spread the love Tweet The past few weeks have definitely been a weird and uncertain time for a lot of people. With the coronavirus continuing to upend daily life across the world, being able to turn to some of our usual comforts is impossible in the current moment. Thankfully, video games have been able to provide
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Spread the love Tweet With the growing concerns over the coronavirus outbreak across the world, things are certainly stressful and uncertain right now for everyone around the world. Thankfully, video games have been able to help take us out of dark times before, and with so many countries turning to shelter in place orders and more
Spread the love Tweet Shinsuke Kodama, one of the main designer on the Ryusei no Rockman series (Mega Man Star Force), and the Gyakuten series (Ace Attorney) announced on Twitter his departure from Capcom: 皆さまお久しぶりです！児玉です！生きてます！ わたくしごとですが、新たなチャレンジのため、２月末でカプコンを退社致しました。ので、これからは外から逆転シリーズを応援したいと思います！ ので、これからは、時々カレーとネコと逆転のリリース済み情報のツイートとなります〜。 — 児玉真佑 (@shinsuke_kodama) March 2, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Shinsuke Kodama: “It’s been a while, everyone, it’s Kodama, I’m still alive!
Spread the love Tweet Coming off the success of Shovel Knight, the path ahead for developer Yacht Club Games seems especially full of possibility. As one of the most successful games to come out of crowdfunding through Kickstarter, the success of Shovel Knight has led to several spin-offs and new projects set in the game’s world, alongside
Spread the love Tweet The past week was a big one for developer and publisher Yacht Club Games, most well-known for Shovel Knight, as the company earlier this week shared details on a number of new projects that it has in the works. Among those was the announcement of its upcoming puzzle game Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon that
Spread the love Tweet Ahhh, Selphia. I missed you. It’s good to be home again. I played the ever-loving hell out of Rune Factory 4 back on the 3DS, so getting the chance to revisit the Switch version was a welcome task. Even with this prior history, however, I’m amazed at how effortlessly it drew me
Spread the love Tweet Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition might be close. After receiving its classification in Korea last week, the game now has a “T for Teen” ESRB rating on Nintendo’s North American website as first spotted by Xenoblade fan account XenoBits. The ESRB has finally rated #XenobladeChronicles Definitive Edition. It was also just rated in
Spread the love Tweet With its latest entry now at more than 5 million copies sold, the Luigi’s Mansion series has become another household name in Nintendo’s stable of franchises. Turns out it has also produced one of the company’s rarest pieces of memorabilia. Mario fan blog Supper Mario Broth posted pictures to Twitter late Thursday
Spread the love Tweet The Video Game Awards 2019 will be remembered by most as our first look at the Xbox Series X. However, for myself, it will be the year that one of my game dreams came true with the announcement of Bravely Default 2. As an avid fan of RPGs, particularly the turn-based Japanese
Spread the love Tweet With Treasure Trove finished, the future of Shovel Knight is murky. Will the upcoming Shovel Knight Dig be the last of our lil’ blue knight’s adventures? In a recent interview with the Nintendo Power Podcast, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove director Sean Velasco and artist Sandy Gordon emphasized that Shovel Knight isn’t going anywhere. In
Spread the love Tweet Ever since Banjo-Kazooie released on Nintendo 64 In 1998, the iconic duo has been loved by gamers around the world. Banjo-Kazooie‘s success prompted developer Rare to create Banjo-Tooie, which released for Nintendo 64 in 2000. Following the success of these first two outings, Microsoft purchased Rare for $375 million. Nintendo fans who loved the Banjo-Kazooie games
Spread the love Tweet Over the past year, Inti Creates has made a concerted effort to get more of its games on new platforms. Blaster Master Zero, its sequel and Mighty Gunvolt Burst all came to PC last year. Now, Inti Creates has confirmed that both Azure Striker Gunvolt and Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 will finally
Spread the love Tweet Nintendo closed 2019 in excellent fashion, selling over 10 million Switch consoles. In total Nintendo Switch has now sold over 52 million units since it’s March 3, 2017 release date. These updated sales numbers put the Switch well over the SNES which boasts lifetime sales of 49 million units. It goes without
Spread the love Tweet Pokemon Sword and Shield finally met the demand for console entries into the series, and the market responded. Big time. Nintendo’s nine-month earnings report, released Thursday, revealed that Sword and Shield have sold more than 16 million copies since their November release, becoming the latest highlight in what’s been an incredibly strong
Spread the love Tweet Pokemon Home is set for release next month, and we’ve finally found out how much it will cost to use it to its fullest. According to a new page on the Pokemon Home website, it’s priced similarly to many other live services. Pricing periods go from one month to a year, with prices ranging from
Spread the love Tweet Intelligent Systems announced two new Fire Emblem Drama CDs will be released on March 18, 2020, in Japan. We’ve got an Awakening Drama CD, and a Three Houses Drama CD. They will be priced at 2000 Yen (tax included) each. The Fire Emblem Awakening Drama CD will feature protagonist Reflet (male)/Yoshimasa Hosoya,
Spread the love Tweet I thought I was pretty good at The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It’s absolutely my most played game on the Nintendo Switch, and I’ve been playing it literally since before launch. But after watching a gamer take on six Guardians with a collection of pot lids, I think it’s time
Spread the love Tweet XSEED Games announced that Rune Factory 4 Special will be coming to the US on February 25, exclusively to Switch. Europe and Australia will get the game a few days later on February 28. A new trailer was released to coincide with the announcement. The official XSEED site contains the E3 trailer
Spread the love Tweet You would think by now that Nintendo would realize that the Super Smash Bros. community is fed up with Fire Emblem fighters. Surely they can’t announce another one as their big 2020 reveal?! Oh, ye of little faith. And while Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai was having a giggle, you can watch some of the most ardent
Spread the love Tweet Hey everyone! This is Lou Contaldi, friendly neighborhood Editor in Chief at DualShockers. Welcome to 2020, another year for our backlogs to grow larger and to accept no New Year’s Resolution that is less than 4K. In a quick detour from our normal gaming news, reviews, and editorials, I wanted to talk
Spread the love Tweet Whether I am playing the latest entry or arguing with others over what constitutes a generation of Pokemon, I will always be passionate about Game Freak’s classic series. Pokemon ingrained itself into my gaming library at a young age and I’ve been addicted to the series through its ups and downs ever since.
Spread the love Tweet In a report from publication VGC, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa explains why the company doesn’t offer prize money at their esports tournaments. As compared to companies like Capcom or Riot Games, Nintendo is notably absent from helping fund Super Smash Bros. competitions at events like EVO. According to the Nikkei interview translated by Japanese
Spread the love Tweet Last year, Sega began publishing the Sega Ages brand of re-releases on Nintendo Switch. These spruce up a variety of Sega Genesis and arcade classics, from Sonic the Hedgehog to Gain Ground, and typically arrive in pairs every couple months here in the west. The Sega Ages releases of Shinobi and Fantasy
Spread the love Tweet It’s no secret that the Nintendo Switch has been a runaway success all around the world with at least 41.67 million units sold. That being said, last year turned out to be specifically great in Japan according to data recently released by Famitsu. The data, which was originally posted by @oscarlemaire and
Spread the love Tweet It seems almost inconceivable that over two-decades since launch there is a subsection of gamers still uncovering the mysteries of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Yet, the modding and coding community are taking on a fairly massive project to do just that: decompile the code from the original N64 ROM of
Spread the love Tweet With Nintendo Switch taking a dominant position in the living room and backpack of most gamers, many have to wonder what Nintendo’s next steps are. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa is looking to address that, talking Cloud Gaming and the future technology that Nintendo is hoping to work into their platforms. In a
Spread the love Tweet Remember last year when the God of War (2019) Art Director, Raf Grasetti, was making more realistic versions of Super Smash Bros. characters? Well he is back at it again to usher in the new year, starting with characters from the Star Fox series. And if you think the Sony Santa Monica Art Director’s 2o19 sketches were
Spread the love Tweet In a recent interview with Nintendo Dream magazine (translated by Robert Sephazon) Dragon Quest XI Producer Hokuto Okamoto made some interesting comments pertaining to the inclusion of Hero and the Dragon Quest IP in general in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. According to Okamoto “I was quite surprised when I first heard about
Spread the love Tweet Before previous Nintendo Directs, unspecified SKU listings have appeared on websites like Amazon and GameStop. While these are technically placeholder listings, they do indicate impending announcements. The cycle seems to be repeating itself once again, as Twitter user @YuYuKami spotted brand new GameStop SKU listings for Nintendo Switch games. GameStop system doing
Spread the love Tweet As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game
