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Nintendo has confirmed that its Switch 2 sidescroller, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, will release on Thursday, May 21.The release date was shared via a new overview video published on Tuesday, to celebrate Mario Day (Mar10).The game features a talking book called Mister Encyclopedia, and, according to the new video, players will be able to discover, name, and log creatures during the game, which will progress them through the story.“One day, on the island where Yoshi and his friends live, a peculiar talking book named Mr. E suddenly falls from the sky,” a synopsis for the game reads. “This mysterious…
Localization is a tricky process. You’ve got humor, tone, and social dynamics to contend with amid the surface translation. JRPG legend Yuji Horii, creator of and continuous lead developer on the Dragon Quest series, believes something is often lost when games transition from Japanese to English.He spoke about it to Famitsu, as translated by Automaton. “When it comes to English, the flavor tends to get lost in many ways,” he states. “Things inevitably end up sounding simplistic.” Making games since the early ’80s, and having designed, directed or contributed to almost every entry in the Dragon Quest franchise, he’s made…
Epic Games has announced that the price of V-Bucks is increasing because “the cost of running Fortnite has gone up.” While that seems like a cue for criticism and anger from players that love to splurge on its constant stream of cosmetics and crossovers, Epic has, to its credit, softened the blow by reducing the V-Buck cost of battle passes, meaning they will technically cost the same dollar amount. It’s also retaining the incentive that a completed battle pass will give you enough V-Bucks to buy the next one. Announced in the middle of some exciting teasers about Fortnite’s Save…
Six of the games coming to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog this month have been leaked ahead of their official reveal.Dealabs insider billbil-kun, who has a lengthy track record of correctly revealing upcoming hardware and software announcements, has revealed a variety of games set to be added to the Game Catalog on the PlayStation Plus service.Game Catalog offers a rotating selection of games for PlayStation Plus members on the Extra and Premium tiers, who can play the games for as long as they like as long as they remain subscribed, and as long as the games remain available in the…
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain owes the job that truly got him started as a game developer to his ability to flex his knowledge of one of D&D’s most annoying rules in his job interview.In a new YouTube video asking whether his success as an RPG developer was down to good fortune or good planning, Cain explains how he found himself at Interplay, the legendary studio that created Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, and Fallout, and published Baldur’s Gate, to boot. Having spent countless hours playing tabletop games and teaching himself to code throughout high school, Cain ended up at University of…
Epic are raising the price of Fortnite’s V-bucks currency, in what the billion dollar publishers frame as a bid to keep the wolf from the door. You’ll now stand to pay almost twice as much for Exact Amount packs, with smaller increases kicking in for the larger fixed wodges of Fort-doubloons. You’ll also learn less from Fortnite’s battle pass in future, though this and other Fortnite passes will also be cheaper to compensate.
Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation finally has a release date, with Nvidia today announcing that the new feature will be available from March 31. As well as unlocking the ability to generate five extra frames for each conventionally rendered frame – for up to 6x frame gen – this latest version of frame gen unlocks the ability to have your system only use frame generation when it needs to. This dynamic frame gen mode finally feels like what frame generation should always have offered. Pick a target frame rate, and it will only use as much frame generation…
Lego’s large-scale Mario Kart Luigi set has appeared on the official Lego store.Although it has yet to be officially shown on the official Lego or Nintendo social media accounts at the time of writing, it’s expected that it will be shown imminently given that today is MAR10 Day.Until then, the set is now available for pre-order on the official Lego store, at a price of $179.99 / £159.99.Lego teased the new set in January, showing it lining up against the existing large-scale Mario set which was released last year.That set, titled Mario & Standard Kart, was aimed at builders aged…
After being teased last month, the new Lego Luigi set has broken cover – and is rapidly gaining on us to deliver his now-iconic death stare.Revealed as part of the MAR10 Day celebrations, the new display model is a 2,200-piece monster that puts Mario’s brother at the wheel of the first large Mach 8 Kart set. It’s built to match the scale of last year’s Mario and Standard Kart set that’s jostling for a position on our best Lego sets guide, so you can pose them on a shelf next to each other in an eternal race to the finish…
Resident Evil Requiem is getting a story expansion and a new minigame, together with the already-promised photo mode, Capcom have announced. What the expansion and minigame involve remains unclear, but there is just the dimmest possibility that we’ll finally be able to play the official Leon Kennedy Meet ‘n’ F*ck game of our wildest dreams. In a short video posted on Xitter today, director Koshi Nakanishi thanks you, I and the rest of the Residentially Evil fanbase for the game’s series record sales, which have topped five million copies. Five million! You would not dare count up that…