Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening remake will include a new dungeon building mode

It ain’t Zelda Maker, but it’s something During this morning’s E3 Nintendo Direct, we got to check out gameplay footage from what must be one of the publisher’s most anticipated releases, the remake of Game Boy classicThe Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. Alongside new footage of a very cute looking Link in action, exploring the famous beaches and forests of the 1993 adventure, we also saw a new dungeon building mode, where our hero can put together his only deadly caverns using “chambers” collected on his quest....

May 22, 2025 · 1 min · 141 words · Marissa Cross

Metroid Dread amiibo delayed in Europe and UK

Global shipping issues are abound right now, and any given country can lose the shipment roulette game. Sometimes the US gets shorted, sometimes it’s Canada and on occasions, Europe. TheMetroid Dreadamiibo delay is one of those occasions. Confirmed by Nintendo of Europe, here’s the gist: “Due to unforeseen shipping delays, theMetroid Dreadamiibo 2-pack is now scheduled to launch across the UK and Europe on November 5th.Metroid Dreadwill still launch for Nintendo Switch on October 8th as originally scheduled....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 234 words · Chase Long

New Magic Knight Rayearth anime announced for 30th anniversary

Anime anniversaries sometimes come and go without anything major in the way of announcements, but not so forMagic Knight Rayearth. The ’90s shoujo staple based on the manga by CLAMP is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a brand new anime project. The news came from TMS Entertainment and the official series accounts forMagic Knight Rayearth. There aren’t a ton of details to go along with it, butthe X (formerly Twitter) account for the seriesstated, “In celebration of “Magic Knight Rayearth” anime’s 30th anniversary, a new animation project has been launched!...

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Thomas Clark

Pachter: PS3 price drop in ’08, PS2 this holiday

Famed industry analyst Michael Pachter (he was just on Bonus Round) says that he expects to see a PS3 price drop next year, right beforeGrand Theft Auto IVandMetal Gear Solid 4are released. “We do expect Sony to be in a position to cut the price of the PS3 in early 2008, when blockbuster games Grand Theft AutoIV and PS3 exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4 will launch,” he offered. As for this year, Pachter expects a price drop for the PlayStation 2....

May 22, 2025 · 1 min · 208 words · Stacy Hines

Players have tried to crack security company’s password game over 4 million times

Now and again, a simple yet genius game will appear online and take the world by storm. We’ve seen it happen with amusing time-wasters like2048,Wordle, andThe Password Game. More recently,Gandalffinds itself in the spotlight thanks to its fun yet educational gameplay. Created by Swiss security company Lakera AI,Gandalf tasks you with guessing a secret password. There are seven levels, and things start easy before the difficulty ramps up sharply. If you manage to complete the seventh level, you unlock a bonus level that is tough as nails....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 352 words · David Johnson

PlayStation motion controller has analog trigger, rumble

When we saw the PlayStation motion controller unveiled at E3, it certainly looked interesting, but Sony didn’t give us much to go on. Details? There were none. They were likehere’s this thing you may wave around. Now we know what’s up, thanks to an interview with PlayStation R&D man Richard Marks. No, not the singer/songwriter. The interview, found on thePlayStation.blog, takes us through the development of the PlayStation Motion Controller. Toward the end, you get to hear about some of the updates to the controller, including the addition of an analog trigger and rumble support....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 231 words · Steven Morgan

Preview: Bring out your inner child with Fable: Heroes

Perhaps the biggest surprise at Microsoft’s recent Xbox 360 spring showcase was the announcement ofFable: Heroesfor Xbox Live Arcade. Built by some of Lionhead’s biggestFablefans,Heroespays homage to many of the series’ past high points while creating its own fun and original experience. It features a charming cartoonish aesthetic, set in what appears to be a child’s board game. I mean, just look at how cute Hammer is in doll form....

May 22, 2025 · 3 min · 571 words · Mallory Gaines

PS5 hits 21.7 million shipments and sales, but other areas see further decline

Generation When? Sony has released its financial results forthe fiscal year ending July 05, 2025(Q1 2022), and while the PlayStation 5 platform continues to gather slight momentum on a global scale, overall the brand is seeing a general decline in customer expenditure, particularly in the realm of software and subscriptions. The mighty PS5 has now hit an impressive 21.7 million global shipments since its launch in the fall of 2020, with around 2....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 285 words · Tammy Parsons

Rare ‘evaluating’ what to work on next

We all know what we’d like them to do You know, it’s gotten to the point where I’d take just about anything from Rare over another game made exclusively for Kinect. It doesn’t even have to be a newBanjo-Kazooie,Viva Pinata, orPerfect Dark— just something that uses a standard gamepad, not motion controls. That’s where I’m at, these days, and I say all of this as a huge fan of those series....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 255 words · Nicholas Christian

Red Dead Redemption 2 has sold over 55 million units

Take-Two Interactive, the publishing company which owns both Rockstar Games and 2K, released itsfirst-quarter financial resultson August 8. There are some pretty impressive numbers in there. Overall, Take-Two is in a strong position, kicking off its financial year with a net booking of $1.2 billion, aschairman and chief officer Strauss Zelnick stated in a conference call. TheRed Deadfranchise is highlighted, with Zelnick revealing thatRed Dead Redemption 2has sold over 55 million copies....

May 22, 2025 · 2 min · 343 words · Pamela Brown

Resistance: Burning Skies is ready to set the Vita ablaze

With a relatively thin PlayStation 3 launch line-up,Resistance: Fall of Manwas a saving grace for early adopters. Almost six years later, theResistancefranchise has gone on to be a critical mainstay for Sony’s systems. With Insomniac no longer at the helm, theResistancefranchise continues under Sony’s stewardship.Resistance: Burning Skiesis the first big test to see if the series can go on without its original auteur. From what I’ve seen recently, yes, it most definitely can....

May 22, 2025 · 6 min · 1124 words · Noah Norris

Rockstar details new Max Payne 3 DLC schedule

As disclosed in Take-Two Interactive’sfinancial resultsfor Q1 fiscal year 2013, 3 million copies ofMax Payne 3have been shipped to date. These are “lower-than-anticipated sales,” according to Take-Two Chairman and CEOStrauss Zelnick, but not to worry — there’splenty of downloadable contenton the way. Following August’s free “Disorganized Crime Pack,” which introduces the Hoboken Rooftops multiplayer map and some new Score Attack modifiers, the previously planned five add-on packs forMax Payne 3are being consolidatedinto three $9....

May 22, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · Jessica Ramirez

Rockstar’s Agent and Max Payne 3 still exist, honest

Today on a Take-Two investor conference call, it was confirmed that Rockstar is still hard at work on two titles,Max Payne 3and the all-but-forgottenAgent. No further status updates or any sort of release window was given for either game, merely a reminder that they’re coming so we don’t think that Rockstar doesn’t care about us. I figuredMax Payne 3was a given, but we haven’t heard hide-nor-hair of the PS3-exclusiveAgentin almost two years and the last news we did get revealed it was planned for a 2010 release....

May 22, 2025 · 1 min · 125 words · Gina Spencer