UPDATE: 2025-05-09 09:08 EST BY JAMES LUCAS Just An Educated Guess Kiwi Talkz has explained that this wasn’t a leak,just an “educated guess”. Metroid Prime 4: Beyondis still set to launch later this year, and we’ll probably get an actual dateat this rumored Nintendo Direct supposedly happening later this month, but there’s already talk of what developer Retro Studios will work on next. For those unfamiliar with the developer’s work, Retro has primarily worked on eitherDonkey KongorMetroid Primesince its foundation, with a brief pause for a Mario Kart game on the Nintendo DS....

With things surroundingMindsEye, the debut game from ex-Rockstar Games executive Leslie Benzies,seemingly getting worse by the minute, the game has now found itself in the clearance bin literal days after its launch. As first shared on Reddit by a U.S.-based gamer, they managed to spot MindsEye for $20 at Walmart, down from its original $59.99 price. It’s unclear if other Walmart stores have similarly followed suit, but it is clear that the game is brand-new and sealed and not some buyers' remorse return....

Summary The big day is finally here. TheNintendo Switch 2launches around the world today, and some of you lucky enough to snag a pre-order might have taken a break from playingMario Kart Worldto read this. If you have a Switch 2, analysts have predicted that you will be one of the millions responsible for Nintendo’s new console overshadowingPChandheld sales within a year of being released. According to Ampere,by way of The Game Business, the Switch 2 is expected to outsell the lifetime sales of every single PC handheld released to date within a year....

Summary Oblivion Remasteredwas released two weeks ago, bringing forth a new generation of Oblivion players who are discovering the wonders of the fourth instalment in the Elder Scrolls, nineteen years after the game’s original release. Oblivion’s quirky level scaling systems quickly became a hot topic among the new player base. For those unfamiliar, almost everything in Oblivion scales with the player’s level. This includes the types of enemies that spawn, the quality of enemies' equipment, the quality of loot that spawns and the stats of some unique items (which are calculated based on the player’s level when they acquire them)....

Summary When you think of Final Fantasy, you probably think of its iconic characters, monsters, and technology. Cloud, Squall, Tera, Noctis, Clive, and Tifa. Moogles and Chocobos and Cids and Cactuars and summons. Buster blades and gun swords and crystals and l’cie. The list goes on and on. But there is one thing that Final Fantasy is known for that may not immediately spring to mind: its job system. Where other games have classes, Final Fantasy has jobs like Black Mage, and Dragoon....

After a series of restocks followed by months of radio silence, it seemed unlikely anyone who missed out on picking upPlayStation’s very limited edition 30th anniversary DualSense would ever get another chance to add one to their collection. That was untilPlayStation quietly announced a restockthat is now live, but you’ll need to be quick. PlayStation confirmed the DualSense controller would be getting restockedat 10 am EST on July 21, 2025,and, if you check the time, you’ll see that deadline has passed and the controllers are indeed back in stock, exclusively at PlayStation Direct....

The dreadedPokemonSuper Kaizo Ironmon, claimed to be the hardest Pokemon challenge till date, has officially been beaten after over a year and more than 100,000 collective attempts by the community. The challenge was finally overcome by streamer Reimi during his 8,502nd attempt. For those that aren’t aware,Super Kaizo Ironmonis a ruleset challenge that has some ridiculous restrictions that even pros would struggle with. It’s a tougher variant of the Super Kaizo challenge, which was a tough ruleset on its own....

Resident Evilhasn’t had the best luck when it comes to live-action adaptations for the silver screen. Sure, the series of movies starring Milla Jovovich may have been popular enough to warrant half a dozen sequels, but they were so detatched from the source material that you could barely call them Resident Evil movies, with one or two references here and there scattered throughout them all. Following that up was another pretty cruddy movie in Welcome to Raccoon City, shortly followed by the Resident Evil Netflix series,which was so bad it was canned after just a single season....

Cosy farming sims are everywhere, which is why the first thing I asked Spellgarden Games about its upcoming game,Ritual of Raven, is what sets it apart from everything else we’ve already played in the genre. In response, Kathrin Radtke, Spellgarden co-founder and Ritual of Raven programmer says, “While it has the charm and comfort of a cozy farming sim, it’s also deeply story-driven, with characters who have rich backstories and personal growth arcs....

It might be hard to believe, but there is apparently an evenuglierversion ofSonic the Hedgehogthat was meant to serve as the mascot for thenow-highly-successful Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise. In other words, an Uglier “Ugly Sonic.” As first shared on Twitter by a user named Doctor Caboose, test footage of the first Sonic the Hedgehog film is now out in the wild. The user alleges they watched the footage as part of an old job, and these pictures serve as proof of what Paramount thought they werecooking....

Summary Nintendo’s daily updates via the Nintendo Today app are usually pretty mundane. One time it was just a 3D look at theSwitch 2’s HDMI cable (no, really). However, every now and again, without any sort of warning, it will use the app to reveal something like, oh, I don’t know, a brand newSplatoongame coming to Nintendo Switch 2. That’s what it decided to use the app for today, revealing thatSplatoon Raiders, an entirely new entry in the Splatoon series, and the first, non-numbered Splatoon spin-off ever....

Summary It’s almost May the Fourth, an annual celebration of theStar Warsseries. To mark the occasion, Aspyr has unveiled a bundle of older Star Wars games - but fans aren’t happy with it. Star Wars: Grand Collection invites players to “relive the galaxy’s greatest moments”, but onPlayStation, there are some very notable exceptions. But even putting the omission of fan favourite games aside, there’s also the price tag of $90. For your money, you get a bunch of older releases like Jedi Academy and Republic Commando, which are good… but many haveprobably picked these up much cheaper in the past....

Stellar Bladehas been a massive breakout hit for developer Shift Up, taking them from a fairly well-known mobile developer to arguably one of the big players on the console stage. Everyone who enjoyed Stellar Blade islooking forward to whatever the studio is cooking up next, and Stellar Blade itself continues to perform,having recently had a massive launch on PC. I can think of a few reasons why Stellar Blade is so popular among gamers - two rather large ones in particular - but ex-PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida reckons the game’s success is all down to its combat....