Author: Zach Barbieri

Nintendo has announced that they plan to support the Nintendo Switch console, on the hardware side, till at least March of 2024, They also stated that the console will continue to receive new games until March 2025. This information comes from a recent interview with Nikkei, in which Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about the company’s plans for the successor of their popular Nintendo Switch console. Furukawa held back from giving anything major away but confirmed plans to support the Switch till the end of this fiscal year, which will end in March of 2024. Furukawa stated that Nintendo…

The upcoming compilation of Batman: Arkham games for the Nintendo Switch, which was set to release on October 13th, has been delayed back to December of this year. The collection was announced during a Nintendo event earlier this year, promising to let Nintendo Switch players dawn Batman’s signature cowl and play three of the best superhero games anywhere they go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVMNvvaXJ2s In an official statement released by Warner Bros., it was stated: More time is needed to bring players the best possible experience on Nintendo Switch. We apologize to fans who are excited to play this version of the trilogy.…

Coming on the heels of a large number of layoffs across the industry, it appears that Naughty Dog is laying off several employees. This comes in conjunction with the news that the Last of Us Multiplayer/Live Service game is currently ‘on ice’. This is just the latest in what has been a tumultuous development cycle. Naughty Dog, which is home to around 400 developers, will be laying off 25 employees from the company according to a report from Kotaku. According to this report, these layoffs are set to impact the company’s QA department with full-time employees to be unaffected. Additionally,…

Despite the confirmed focus on graphics in the upcoming survival horror game Alan Wake II, it was recently confirmed that the game would feature a performance mode on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. This has been something both consoles have struggled with in recent months, Final Fantasy XVI on PS5 struggled to maintain a 60 frame rate and often dropped to 40 or lower, and Starfield was locked to 30 frames on the Series X. A question that was left from the announcement, noticeable due to specifically mentioning only the systems above, was whether the Series S would…

A season of large-scale downsizing in the video game industry is set to continue as Team17, the developer of the Worms and Overcooked franchises, as well as the Publisher of indie hits Dredge and Blasphemous, will also be laying off employees. This comes on the heels of last week, which saw major publishers like Sega, Ubisoft, Blizzard, and Epic Games all doing the same. Similarly to those other cases, the loss of jobs is being blamed on a “Company Restructure” and will eliminate 50 positions from the company. The majority of these positions will be from the Publisher’s QA department.…

Hogwarts legacy has had a mixed bag of a year all things considered. On the one hand, the title premiered earlier this year on the next-generation hardware to rave reviews. The PC release at the same time set a strong concurrent player count. The other hand presents Warner Brothers’ desire to not alienate portions of their player base by releasing the game on both the previous gen and the far more antiquated Nintendo Switch, the latter proving the most difficult. While this in itself is not a horrible thing for a developer or publisher to want, this process has proven…

With only 5 months remaining until Square Enix’s hotly anticipated follow-up to Final Fantasy VII Remake, entitled Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the age-old question of “Will we see the remake on another platform other than Sonys PlayStation?” once again began to make the rounds. According to Leaker NateDrake, in a post on Famiboards, the studio still has no plans to port the game to an Xbox console, or the speculative Nintendo Switch 2 at this point. While this remains par for the course with how the remake series has been handled up to this point, several facts have changed for…

With rumors persisting that several members of the media were able to go hands-on with the inevitable Nintendo Switch 2, it was only a matter of time until the discussion turned to what multiplatform games would be coming to it. It looks like, if you are a Nintendo fan looking for big games to play on the go, you should be in for an exciting few months. While we are still waiting for the official announcement of the platform, leaker Tom Henderson has suggested several games are set to announce the upcoming platform for release. As posted on his X…

FoamStars, the upcoming live-service 4v4 shooter from Square Enix, launched its open beta on September 29th for players on the PlayStation 5. While the beta gives the first solid look at what players can expect from the game matchmaking issues have made the game far from accessible for many people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD_XuyEgfOY On the game’s official X (formerly Twitter) page, this matchmaking issue has been stated to be due to “concentrated,” users access which has led to matchmaking errors, as well as long loading times. Currently, and unfortunately, the only solution being offered to this issue to to attempt Queueing again.…

Bloomberg has reported that Fortnite developer Epic Games is expected to lay off 16% of its workforce. In a statement from the CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, he confirmed that the layoffs are expected to impact roughly 830 employees within the company. In addition, Epic Games will be looking to sell Bandcamp, an independent music storefront that the company had only acquired last year, to musical licensing platform Songtradr. Sweeney went on to state that these layoffs are a direct reaction to Epic “spending way more money than we earn.”It was noted that within this statement, Sweeney does not…