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Vivendi’s Attempt At A Hostile Takeover Of Ubisoft Is Over

Ubisoft appears to have avoided the hostile takeover the company’s bosses and workers have been fearing from the conglomerate Vivendi for the past three years.The mega-publisher announced today that Vivendi will sell off all its existing shares in Ubisoft and agreed to not acquire any more for the next five years. In another twist, China’s…

How To Get Into The Yakuza Series

Now that the West is getting new Yakuza games every six months, there’s never been a better to check out the series. But with over seven games and numerous spin offs, it can be hard to know where to start. Well, today’s your lucky day! Let me help you take your first step into one…

The Sims Mobile Is A Great Place To Raise A Family

I downloaded The Sims Mobile to see if it would let me trap a virtual person in a bathroom-less building. Now I’m two working mothers raising a child. I couldn’t be happier, at least not without having to wait out some sort of happiness timer. There is no virtual torture in The Sims Mobile, the…

A report today by The Verge details the recent history of Telltale Games leading up to last fall’s layoffs, including feelings among many of the staff that the studio was stagnating creatively and had also become a toxic work environment under the leadership of co-founder and former CEO Kevin Bruner.

Nintendo’s Newest Line-Up Of Switch Indie Games Includes Promising Ports And A Cool-Looking Pool Game

A remastered version of the classic stealth game Mark of the Ninja headlined a quick video presentation of indie games coming to the Nintendo Switch this spring, summer and fall. A bunch of cool-looking games were shown, but there were no shock announcements. For Spring: Garage, a gritty top-down shooter with VHS-inspired graphics, from Tiny…

Adult Swim just announced the debut date of beloved, raucus coming-of-age anime Fooly Cooly’s second iteration, or FLCL: Progressive. On June 2nd at 11:30 PM, fans can watch 14-year-old protagonist Hidomi and her classmate Ide come up against some chaos-loving alien beings (with very, very good music, too). FLCL 3 is coming shortly after in…

New Tamagotchi Game Lets Me Relive My Childhood

Looking at the character art for My Tamagotchi Forever is like reaching back into my childhood. Unlike their pixelated forebears, these creatures look like they’re crafted out of clay, all rounded edges and big, bright shapes. They’re still adorable, and I still want to take care of them. Luckily, just like the original toy, that’s…

The Switch is getting Lumines? We’re so doomed. Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s rhythm puzzle game is coming to the Switch this spring as Lumines Remastered. We’ll be Shinin’ like it’s the 2005 PSP launch. Update: It’ll also be out on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Look for it in May.

Nintendo’s newest showcase for indie games heading to the Switch kicks off at noon ET. It’s tied to the Game Developers Conference and is in part a way to recruit more indies to the platform (not that they’re hurting for them!). Watch it here. If you’re feeling nostalgic, you can alsoread about the indies they…

I Was Sure There Was A Secret Message In The New Kirby Game

I like Kirby games, but I would not consider myself an advanced Kirbyologist. I was therefore surprised to learn a few weeks ago that Kirby games I’d played on the 3DS contained hidden messages. The first letter of each of the games’ worlds spelled a word. Neat! Surely, I figured, the new Kirby Switch game…

The Sims Developer Is Working On A New Game About Memories

10 years after his last game, designer Will Wright is back with a new project called Proxi, a mobile game where players make entire worlds out of past memories. As one of the creators behind SimCity, The Sims, and Spore, Wright is known for ambitious games that double as science experiments. Proxi appears to be…

Thanks to alive-action TV series kicking off in May on Freeform, teen super team Cloak and Dagger score their own Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 level pack today. The $2.99 DLC features a short adventure plus character unlocks for Mister Negative, Blackout, Shroud, Nightmare, and Silvermane. Don’t do drugs, kids.

Fila’s Pokémon Sneakers Look Tasteful

If you are looking for a cute pair of officially branded Pokémon sneakers, look no further. As tipster Sang points out, Fila is teaming up with Pokémon in South Korea for these “limited collaboration” Court Deluxe shoes. The designs are inspired by Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Jigglypuff. These are South Korea only, apparently, and…

The Reason Why Super Saiyan Hair Is Blond 

In Dragon Ball, when members of the Saiyan race transform into their Super Saiyan form, their hair goes from black to blond. Recently on Japanese TV (via Topic News), Weekly Jump editor in chief Hiroyuki Nakano explained why. The original manga is black and white, and according to Nakano, Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama said…

Black Panther Statue Destroyed In South Korea, Possibly By A Drunk Person

To commemorate the filming of Black Panther in South Korea’s Busan, Disney had sent a pair of statues to be displayed in the country. One of the statues has been vandalized. The incident has made Korean news. One of the statues went to Gwangalli, while the one for Gwangbok-ro ended up destroyed. As Yonhap News…

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Game Workers Unite is a fledgling effort to get game devs unionized that’s formed around this year’s GDC. The organization was born of discussion surrounding an upcoming roundtable on unionization to be hosted by the International Game Developers Association, which has expressed controversial views on the subject in the past. We’ll have more on Game…

Someone Made 400 School Bomb Threats Because They Were Mad About Minecraft

Hundreds of schools across the U.K. closed today after receiving bomb threats via email. The threats were later discovered to be a hoax tied to a Minecraft server rivalry. Over 400 institutions were affected, according to the newspaper Express, which reported that many schools evacuated their students upon receiving the emails threatening bombings.The Northumbria Police…

The Yakuza 6 demo for PS4, which was pulled after accidentally letting people play the entire game, is now available once more. Just without the “play the entire game” part.

Sign of the times. As I emerged from a panel at GDC in San Francisco, I saw a huge line that wrapped around itself, easily the biggest I’ve seen at GDC so far. Curious, I decided to see which presentation it was for. The sign at the door read “Making Indie Games That Sell.”