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A cool bit of news from the Japanese Nintendo Direct: In 2020, Nintendo will release Switch remakes of its Famicom Detective Club adventure games, originally released on the Famicom Disk System in the late 1980s. No English version planned yet, but who knows what’ll happen.

Return of the Obra Dinn, which was announced for the Switch earlier today, is also coming to the PS4 and Xbox One in the Fall

Everything Announced During Today’s Nintendo Direct

Super Nintendo games are finally coming to Switch Online. And I’m sure there were other announcements during today’s 40-minute Nintendo Direct, too. Like Xenoblade Chronicles and Tokyo Mirage Sessions coming to Switch. Or Fatal Fury’s Terry Bogard coming to Smash. Actually, there was a lot. Here it all is. Super Nintendo games are finally coming…

Super Nintendo Games Are Coming To Switch For Online Subscribers

You’ve been asking for it since 2016, and now you’re getting it. Nintendo just announced that a range of Super Nintendo titles will be made available for Nintendo Switch Online. The first lineup of games includes: Rewind function will be available at launch, and there’ll also be online multiplayer. Oh, and like with the NES,…

Wii U Gem Tokyo Mirage Sessions Is Coming To Switch

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, the crossover between Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem, is coming to Switch. Rejoice! I never got to play Tokyo Mirage Sessions, despite it being one hundred percent my thing. You’re play a high schooler who’s also a pop star, who also has a kinda sorta persona, like in the series Persona, and…

Fatal Fury‘s Terry Is Coming To Super Smash Bros.

“Who the hell is Terry?” thousands of Super Smash Bros. fans all asked in unison just one moment ago. Well, according to Nintendo, he’s your next Smash fighter! Also, you know, a 30-year-old video game character from another well-respected franchise. Today’s Nintendo Direct brought news of the fourth highly anticipated Smash fighter. Terry Bogard is…

Boat-based mystery darling Return of the Obra Dinn is coming to Switch. Nintendo announced during today’s Nintendo Direct that the Switch version of the 2018 already-classic will be out sometime this fall.

Ikumi Nakamura, creative director at Tango Gameworks, has left the studio after nine years. You may remember her from this past E3, where she charmed the audience by introducing the spooky game she was working on, GhostWire: Tokyo.

Apex Legends‘ New Outfit Is Great But Expensive

Apex Legends fans appear to agree that the new limited-time skin for the character Wraith is pretty awesome. They are less sure that it is worth $18. The currently ongoing Voidwalker event has avoided the biggest pitfalls of the last Apex Legends event when it comes to skins. Rather than jumping through microtransaction hoops in…

Steam Libraries Are Getting Long-Awaited Overhaul In September

In the time since Valve first started alluding to (and accidentally leaking mock-ups of) a mysterious Steam library overhaul, eras have ended, empires have risen and fallen, and we’ve all grown weary and hunched. Or at least, it feels that way. Now, the time for change is nearly upon us: Valve will begin rolling out…

Sims 4 Players Are Freaking Out Over Stairs

In a free update for the game’s fifth anniversary, The Sims 4 will get new “Muslim-inspired” architecture and clothes, like hijabs and nehru collars, as well as some new patio items. But there’s one update in particular that Simmers are losing their minds about: customizable stairs. There are so many kinds of houses you can…

The original Puzzle Quest is coming to Switch. Revealed via an eShop listing, Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns includes the classic match-3 RPG and its Plague Lord expansion, plus a new expansion, new quests, and more character classes. It’s out September 19.

Final Fantasy VIII‘s Triple Triad Is Why I Love Card Games

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered is finally here, which means I can continue my long and storied history of never actually finishing Final Fantasy VIII because I am too busy playing Triple Triad. It’s a whole thing: I get a copy of Final Fantasy VIII, immediately start playing the in-game card game more than anything else,…

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Square Enix Shows Real-Time Graphics Of The Future

Square Enix studio Luminous Productions has unveiled a new tech demo called “Back Stage” that shows how it uses ray-tracing tech. The demo is rendered in real-time  Luminous Productions was established last year and staffed with former Final Fantasy XV staff. The game’s director Hajime Tabata initially headed up the studio. He has since left Square…

The Time I Wrote George Lucas A Letter

Growing up in the 1980s, I was a huge Star Wars fan. The first movie I ever saw in a theater was The Empire Strikes Back. I loved it. Like everyone else, I eagerly awaited Lucas’ overdue return to the director’s chair. And in 1994, I wrote him a letter asking about the then-unmade future…

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How A Colorblind Artist Makes Magic Cards & Video Games

Paul Scott Canavan is one of the best artists working in entertainment today, with a list of clients and employers ranging from Wizards of the Coast to Valve to Games Workshop. He also used to be an art director at Axis Animation, a company responsible for cinematic video game trailers and intros. So if you’ve…

Cosplay Looks Totally Different Through The Lens Of An Instant Camera

We’re so accustomed to modern cosplay photography being slick and bright and clean that it’s easy to settle into the idea that’s the only way to take photos of people in costume. But this series of shots from this year’s DragonCon shows that a change of hardware can make a big difference to how we…