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Zelda finally playable protagonist in new s...

Jun 18, 2024Comments off

Princess Zelda will finally be playable in Nintendo’s next games in the series, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Zelda will utilise a new ability to create echoes of items and enemies, while the art

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD coming to Ni...

Jun 18, 2024Comments off

Today during Nintendo’s Direct broadcast, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD was announced for the Switch. The Wii classic will feature 80 levels on its Switch debut, including the additional ones from the game’s 3DS version. Donkey

Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake officially anno...

Jun 18, 2024Comments off

Square Enix has officially announced its HD-2D remake of Dragon Quest 3 at today’s Nintendo Direct, along with further remakes of the full Erdrick trilogy. The remake will release on 14th November on Switch, though a

Mario & Luigi: Brothership bringing the...

Jun 18, 2024Comments off

Kicking its latest Direct off with a bang, Nintendo has unveiled Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which is heading to Switch on 7th November this year. Brothership marks the Switch debut of Nintendo’s long-running action-RPG series, and

Final Fantasy creator’s Fantasian hea...

Jun 18, 2024Comments off

Fantasian, the RPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, is heading to Switch this winter. The game has been an Apple Arcade exclusive since it launched in 2021. Now it’s heading to Switch with the name

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Still Wakes the Deep: how a dev’s own cla...

Jun 18, 2024Comments off

With Still Wakes the Deep releasing on PS5 tomorrow, we wanted to highlight some of the inspirations for the environments of the upcoming first-person narrative horror. Early on we decided that Still Wakes the Deep would

DF Weekly: Live stream quality can be awful...

Jun 17, 2024Comments off

This week’s DF Direct Weekly is what you might call a ‘come down’ episode. After the highs of the Sony State of Play, Summer Games Fest and the best Xbox Showcase in years, we take things

EA’s top execs earned $60m in last fi...

Jun 17, 2024Comments off

EA’s top execs earned $60m in the fiscal year 2024, despite the company laying off hundreds of employees. In particular CEO Andrew Wilson earned just under half that number himself – $25.6m – and was praised

Still Wakes the Deep review – astonis...

Jun 17, 2024Comments off

As horror locations go, an oil rig is a doozy. It’s remote, claustrophobic on the inside, and no less oppressive on the outside, what with its thrashing storms and merciless seas. But for all its bleakness,

Helldivers 2 developer donates to Save the ...

Jun 16, 2024Comments off

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has donated $4311 (£3397) to the Save the Children charity after Helldivers chose morality over manslaughter earlier this week. Arrowhead CCO and Helldiver 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt confirmed the