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Developer Interview: WayForward Talks Mighty Switch Force! 2

WayForward Talks Mighty Switch Force! 2

This girl is on fire

WayForward is one of the best known developers on Nintendo's download stores, making its name most prominently on portable platforms. It's a studio with many strings to its bow, including numerous retail releases on various platforms for other publishers, but it's arguably the company's own self-published IPs that have...

News: Capcom Announces E3 Live-streaming Schedule

Capcom Announces E3 Live-streaming Schedule

Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies Q&A will be broadcast

E3 is just around the corner now and a mixed array of developers and publishers are all preparing for what promises to be a massive three days of gaming action. There are quite a few keen publishers that have decided to broadcast some footage from the show floor - for example, Square Enix will be...

News: New GameCenter CX Title in Development for 3DS

New GameCenter CX Title in Development for 3DS

"Kachou ON!!!"

GameCenter CX (also known outside Japan as Retro Game Master) is the chronicle of Kachou (“Chief”) Shinya Arino and his quest to defeat classic games of years gone by. According to Siliconera, the third game about this show about games has been announced as being in development. It's like gameception. G.Rev, developers of the...

News: Animal Crossing: New Leaf Will Need Over 6000 Blocks On Your SD Card

Animal Crossing: New Leaf Will Need Over 6000 Blocks On Your SD Card

Clear some space, right now

We've had a number of enquiries about how many SD card blocks are required for upcoming release Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which is of little surprise as the daily commitment that the game demands is perfectly suited to a download. Intriguingly, the results vary slightly depending on region. Our man in North America, Jon...

News: Masahiro Sakurai Confirms Smash Bros. Reveal For Next Week's Nintendo Direct

Masahiro Sakurai Confirms Smash Bros. Reveal For Next Week's Nintendo Direct

"For the first time, simultaneously worldwide!"

Masahiro Sakurai has taken to Twitter to confirm what we perhaps already knew — next week's E3-flavoured Nintendo Direct will contain footage of the new Super Smash Bros. title. The tweet — which has been translated by Kotaku — reads as follows: Notice: On the June 11th 11PM Nintendo Direct,...

News: Tomodachi Collection: New Life Reinstated At Number One In Japanese Sales Charts

Tomodachi Collection: New Life Reinstated At Number One In Japanese Sales Charts

3DS continues to shine

Tomodachi Collection: New Life has been reinstated at the top of the sales charts in Japan after taking a week off to accommodate for several new releases. The Mii-based life-sim has been doing good business for Nintendo in Japan and shot up from 4th position to number one, knocking last week's new entry Shin Megami Tensei IV...

News: Nintendo World Store Set for Transformation to Celebrate the Launch of Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Nintendo World Store Set for Transformation to Celebrate the Launch of Animal Crossing: New Leaf

It all happens this Saturday

It seems like forever and an age since Nintendo announced the release date for Animal Crossing: New Leaf in both North America and Europe, and now the game is just around the corner with it launching in North America this Sunday 9th June, and in Europe a couple of days later on 14th June. To celebrate the occasion,...

News: Harvest Moon: A New Beginning Sowing the Seeds for a Q3 Release in Europe

Harvest Moon: A New Beginning Sowing the Seeds for a Q3 Release in Europe

Courtesy of Marvelous AQL Europe and Zen United

Although a prolific franchise and one that appeared on 3DS initially with a DS dual release, Harvest Moon: A New Beginning represents the first departure for the series designed exclusively for the system. Its attempts to freshen up the series were a success, in our view, as we awarded it 8/10 in our...

News: PES 2014 Will Not Be Dispensed On Wii U

PES 2014 Will Not Be Dispensed On Wii U

Poor PES 2013 sales means there's no 3DS version either

EA created quite a stir last month when it confirmed FIFA 14, its next iteration in is popular football franchise, would be skipping the Wii U and would only be making it to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, as well as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One - when they arrive. Of course that means...

Review: Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)

Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)

Return of the thieving raccoon

It’s likely that before the archaic and newly-retired Mayor Tortimer sailed off into the sunset he turned to the fresh-faced Mayor-to-be beside him and whispered, “Remember, you’re only a Mayor, not a King, and this is a democracy, not a dictatorship.” And with that, he turned, winked, donned his Hawaiian shirt...