Summary Nintendoreleased itsfinancial results from the first half of the financial year 2025yesterday, revealing declining software and hardware sales compared to last year. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa fielded questions at a corresponding financial meeting, revealing his thoughts on the decline of Nintendo Switch sales ahead of the impending Switch 2 announcement. In an interview with the Japanese newspaperMainichi Shimbun(translated bySpiritDusk on ResetEra), Furukawa theorised the declining sales of the Nintendo Switch are not due to the presence of an upcoming successor, but rather because the hardware is in its eighth year of being on sale....

Summary Last night,Nintendoannounced that ithad filed a patent infringement lawsuitagainstPalworld, the viral indie game that became known as ‘Pokemonwith guns’immediately after its announcement in 2021. However, developer Pocketpair isn’t backing down, and has since responded on Twitter, revealing that it plans to fight the suit on behalf of indie developers. We have received notice of this lawsuit and will begin the appropriate legal proceedings and investigations into the claims of patent infringement....

Summary Pokemon Legends: Z-Awas initially planned to launch this year, before being pushed back into 2025. This is according to leaked material online, which is said to stem from a hack atGame Freak. This material includes both the apparent original release window, as well as the Pokemon we can expect to see in the game. According to the leak, Mega Zygarde and Mega Zeraora will be in the game. This would be the first time that Zygarde has had a mega evolution, with the leak claiming that the mega form will also appear in the anime....

Summary There are so many different types ofPokemonplush that even I, someone who spends a lot of their time at work writing about them, learn of a new type on what is starting to feel like a weekly basis. This week it’s Pokemon Dolls, perhaps the most adorable type of Pokemon plush on the market. Pokemon Dolls are smaller plushes designed to look like the doll versions of Pokemon you find in the games, and this week four more Pokemon will be making their Doll plush debuts....

Just weeks after Ilambasted the PS5 Profor its unnecessary upgrades and eye-watering £700 price tag, Remarkable announced an incremental upgrade to its fantastic Remarkable 2 e-ink tablet, that costs £779. It’s safe to say that my expectations for the Remarkable Paper Pro were high, because the Remarkable 2 is already an expensive piece of kit when you can buy about 250 paper notebooks for the same price and even more for its successor....

After relocating to Prague, Czech Republic following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a floor of the GSC Game World offices caught fire. A server overheated and a swathe of the office space, as well as plenty of studio materials, succumbed to the flames. This would have made headlines for some game developers, or brought entire production pipelines to a crawl. But for GSC Game World, they saw it as nothing more than a reason to keep on moving forward withStalker 2....

Like most Atlus RPGs,Metaphor: ReFantaziowill have quotes spoken over and over in the game that become earworms stuck in your head. There are also just well-written, great lines of dialogue and narration throughout the game, as to be expected. Fans of the Persona series will already have some of the more famous quotes stuck into their vocabulary (lookin' cool, Joker!), but this game has its own plethora of quotes that you’ll find yourself repeating before long....

Metaphor: ReFantaziois a massive game, with plenty of activities to fill your time with for its 60-80 hour runtime. With how long it is, there are plenty of hidden details and Easter eggs included to keep you on the lookout for different references throughout your entire playthrough. Since Metaphor: ReFantazio is an original IP, you might think that there are only so many different references and details it can hide, but Atlus' team of developers has treated this fantasy adventure as a celebration of their company’s successes throughout the years, while also injecting it with detailed and passionate world-building too....

Dragon Ball Super introduced fans to some of the most powerful characters in the Dragon Ball universe, bringing god-level transformations, intense battles, and new foes to challenge Goku and his friends. InDragon Ball: Sparking Zero, many of these Super characters are represented, each offering unique abilities and playstyles. From divine Saiyans to resurrected tyrants, the roster is filled with fan-favorites that bring epic energy to the game. Below, we rank the seven best characters from Dragon Ball Super in Sparking Zero, based on their strength, versatility, and overall impact....

Cell is one of the most iconic villains in the Dragon Ball Z series, known for his ability to absorb other beings and evolve into increasingly powerful forms. In Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, players get the chance to experience Cell’s various transformations, each offering a different playstyle and level of power. From his imperfect beginnings to his terrifyingly powerful Perfect form, Cell’s evolution is central to his character in the series....

Summary The Binding of Isaac: Rebirthis arguably one of themost important and influential indie games out there, helping shape the indie scene into the behemoth that it is today. Despite the series being over a decade old at this point, the game is still going strong, thanks to various DLC packs and upgrades that constantly add more and more features to help you spend an ungodly amount of hours completing everything....

UFO 50is perhaps the single most ambitious indie game ever made. With a development time of 8 years, it was a true labor of love from the team. It will also be a labor of passion on the gamers' side of things, as many of these titles are exceptionally brutal. This should not be surprising to fans of Derek Yu’s previous games, particularly Spelunky 1 and 2. Though not every game in the collection is hard to approach, many of them deliberately lean into the retro difficulty of the 1980s....

Throughout your journey inMetaphor: ReFantazio, you’ll explore a selection of major towns and cities that will be the hubs of each arc of the main story. However, in between these main hubs are smaller settlements, mini-dungeons, and spectacles that are completely optional and can easily be missed if you aren’t paying attention to every side quest. The best way to see every location in Metaphor: ReFantazio is to consult the informant in every town before and after accepting side quests, as they will sometimes give you the location of an area you otherwise can’t access....