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UNLIMITED POWER A Plague Tale: Innocencemight be one of those games that slipped past your radar at E3. It’s about trying not to get killed by disease-carrying rats in the Kingdom of France in 1349. Asobo Studio’s game looks promising, but Nintendo Switch owners won’t get the chance to find out, as it won’t be making its way over to the hybrid console. GamingBoltsat down with David Dedeine, Asobo Studio’s Chief Creative Officer, who told them Nintendo’s console simply wasn’t powerful enough to do justice to the developer’s vision....

Get your cape pressed and ready Big news morning for Platinum Games. Not only have we seen the kaiju-kapers ofthe newly announcedProject G.G.,but we now have an official release date for the first release of the “Platinum4”:The Wonderful 101: Remastered, which will launch in North America and Europe in May before heading to Japan in June. The revamped edition of the 2013 Wii-U adventure launched on Kickstarter to instant success, pulling in some$1....

Sorry, I do not understand “Pick Up Key” Grasshopper Manufacture has released details on the launch of the first DLC add-on to their irreverent, genre-hopping adventureTravis Strikes Again. Volume One: Black Dandelionwill hit theNintendo eShopon February 28. The DLC contains a super-cool looking new character, Shinobu, who brings exclusive new skills to the quirky, action-packed title. What a neat design, I love her hair! A new text adventure is also being added;Badman Strikes Again, which recalls the classic video game genre of the late 1980’s....

At the IFA 2012 trade show, currently taking place in Berlin, Epic Games and NVIDIA showed the first public demonstration of Unreal Engine 3 running on Windows 8 and Windows RT. A live demo of Epic’s “Epic Citadel” was shown running on the Asus Vivo Tab RT. Mark Rein, Epic’s VP, said that they ported the full engine instead of modifying the mobile version, and that this should make it easy for devs to bring content to Windows 8 and Windows RT....

Hail of discounts flying in On Friday, April 5Bulletstorm: Full Clip Editionwent live on Steam for $49.99. This remaster with added content is getting a release discount for PC gamers at DLGamer with a $10 drop to $39.99. This is thebest price onlineforFull Clip Editionfrom an authorized retailer. Controversy with other digital retailers aside, Gearbox’s latest appears to be doing well with user reviews. PC gamers are getting pampered even more with huge sales onParadox InteractiveandBethesda titlesthis weekend....

Woe is shortsighted me I have a troubled history with collecting games. Growing up, I lived in one console household until both my brother and I were in high school. So when we got our NES, that is all we had. When it came time to move up to the SNES, we sold our 8-bit wonder and all of its games to pay for the new system. When the PlayStation came into fashion, we traded in the SNES to Funcoland to pay for it....

You’ll need to go there after you finish the campaign TheSplatoon 3terminal is an easily overlooked menu that you otherwise never really have to interact with, but it can be crucial for a few select things. One of them is picking up periodic rewards. The main terminal is right next to the queue system in the training lobby Head to the lobby room (where you can queue for turf war and ranked), and interact withthe terminal/PCright there....

Truly free to play Xbox is lifting the restrictions on its free-to-play games. While some online multiplayer games still required an Xbox Live Gold membership to play even if they didn’t cost any money to play themselves, Microsoft is unlocking that today. The company hadpreviously been testing this feature out, and start today, the feature should go live for all players across over 50 free-to-play games. Here’s the current lineup:...

Here are the hot deets We told you yesterday that anUncharted 4multiplayer beta wasprobablydefinitely happening this weekend; now we can confirm that it’sdefinitelydefinitely happening. We have the information straight from the horse’s mouth. (What a weird idiom. Horses not named “Ed” don’t talk.) PlayStation Blog saysthat multiplayer beta will run this weekend from March 4 9am Pacific until March 6 11:59pm Pacific. The purpose is to stress test the servers. The idea is to get all the kinks worked out before the game actually launches....

Itchy, tasty Those who playedResident Evilback in ’96 knew they were experiencing greatness. Discovering that first zombie eating away at a dead body is definitely up there when it comes to the most iconic moments in gaming history. The rest of the game, despite—and sometimes due to—some pretty C-tier writing and voice acting, also left a mark. While there were plenty of zombie games before Chris Redfield stepped foot into the Spencer Mansion,Resident Evilchanged the industry and ushered in a resurgence of the genre across all forms of media....

Complete closure, all jobs lost, nothing left Today is truly a sad day for the Australian game development scene as the country’s final AAA game development studio, 2K Australia in Canberra, is being closed down. Most recently known for developingBorderlands: The Pre-Sequel, The entire studio is closing and all jobs there are being terminated. In a statement issued earlier today by 2K we were informed that development costs and location of studios were contributing factors to the studio’s closure....

Make sure you have the Nintendo Switch Online app Nintendo has already confirmed thatSplatoon 3is getting DLC, but there are other free bonuses to redeem in the meantime. Using the Nintendo Switch Online app, and heading into the “Splatnet 3” app within that app, you’ll be able to scan QR codes for free in-game loot. Here’s how to do it from step one. 『スプラトゥーン3』発売に合わせて、オリジナルデザインのプレートがゲットできるQRコードが公開されている。https://t.co/MEbKLJwZ4K 「イカリング3」内の「QRコードリーダー」で公開されたQRコードを読み込めば、バンカラ街のロビーに設置されているロビー端末で受け取れるようだ。pic.twitter.com/yR65s3iDWM — Splatoon（スプラトゥーン） (@SplatoonJP)June 05, 2025...

Let games do what games do best, says Activision Publishing CEO Speaking withEdgeabout those darned film adaptations of videogames that keep happening — or at least getting announced, I should say — Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg commented that he’s not personally into such things. He likes his games to be, well, games. “I think there’s something to do with allowing different media to do what each media does well,” he said....