Wii owners will receive the info-message through their console Nintendo has sent out a mass-message to Wii owners to inform them of the Wii U’s release,Kotakureports. The message was sent in an effort to inform the mass audience that the Wii U is “an all-new home console from Nintendo,” according to the message, and not a mere upgrade or peripheral for the current Wii system. Nintendo Global President and Nintendo of America CEO Satoru Iwatalast week addressedthe Wii U’s poor sales performance, stating the company’s greatest challenge thus far has been communicating the Wii U’s value to Wii owners....

But there’s a catch If you are a fan of the Nuketown maps in theCall of Duty: Black Opsseries, then you’ll be happy to hear that Treyarch is bringing the popular map toBlack Ops 3. However, this time it’s got an edgy name and you’ll need to preorder the game to play it on day one (modern gaming, am I right?). As for its availability if you don’t preorder, well, I guess you’ll have to wait....

Just over a week ago, I mentioned how Nvidia was launching three GPUs in the newRTX 4000 SUPERrange. Now, the first one of the bunch has been released, offering a bit of a performance boost compared to its predecessor. The 4070 SUPER came out yesterday, and it already appears to be fairly popular. While sites likeNeweggdo have models from ZOTAC, GIGABYTE, ASUS, and more, there are quite a few that have sold out....

There’s still a few days to rank up Overwatch‘s third competitive season isdrawing to a close,meaning players have just a few days left to work on their rank and earn points towards unlocking golden weapon skins. The season will end on February 21 at 4:00 PM Pacific time, or Wednesday February 22 at Midnight UTC. The fourth season is scheduled to begin exactly one week later, on February 28/March 1. Helpfully, the forum post that has the details contains a link to atime zone converterso you can figure out when the season will end for yourself....

You’ll need nine wins by May 17, 2025 The latest in-game challenge forOverwatch, Ashe’s Mardi Gras Challenge, is live until July 11, 2025. Similar to prior “remember me!” mini-events inOverwatch, you’ll earn cosmetic rewards for winning matches in the Quick Play, Competitive, or Arcade modes. This time, the rewards areAshe and B.O.B. player icons(three wins),a Gold Mask spray(six wins), anda Mardi Gras Ashe skin(nine wins). As an Ascendant Zenyatta player, I’m enamored with B....

Shifting Tides on the horizon Anyone who fancies a weekend of boarding up windows, barricading trapdoors and “Fuzing” hapless hostages should jump on board Ubisoft’s tactical shooterRainbow Six Siege, which is holding a free-to-play weekend ahead of the launch of new seasonOperation Shifting Tides, expected within the next week or two. You and your buddies can jump in on the twitchy action from today until November 24 gratis. Should you get a taste for all the rappelling, crawling and not-knowing-what-you-did-wrong action, then the full game is available at various levels of discount, some ranging all the way up to 70% off....

It’s very difficult to get someone with a predisposition towards ignoring certain types of games to garner any interest in them. That’s how I am withXCOM. Everything about it tells my brain “this is not for you.” That’s why I’m so amazed with this video from Rev3 Games. They managed to cut through the cold, icy walls of my XCOM-dismissing frontal lobe and made me feel something about this franchise. That’s no easy trick, especially for an old jerk like me who’s pretty set in his ways....

Still slim on info unfortunately As part of Sega’s End of Fiscal Year 2018 report, the Japanese developer/publisher noted that their “completely new”Sakura Warstitle will be released at some point in Fiscal Year 2018, so by definition that means before July 29, 2025. The game was first revealed last month at Sega’s Fes event, which was held in Akihabra, Tokyo. There is very little known about the new entry to the long-running franchise, other thanShin Sakura Teisenis set one year after the events of PS2/Wii entrySakura Wars: So Long, My Love....

March 22 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twicebusted onto the scene at E3 this year and immediately turned heads. TheSoulsbut kinda not Souls action romp by From Software changes up quite a few core pieces of the popular franchise’s formula, most notably by nixing multiplayer and eliminating most of the RPG angles.Soulscreator Hidetaka Miyazaki will be at the helm, directing. While a lot of the game is still a mystery the release date isn’t: it’s Jul 12, 2025....

South of Midnightis one of the bigger games launching in early April, and we have more information about the launch timings. The upcoming launch will have a separate early access available as part of the Premium Edition. A valid Xbox Game Pass subscription also entitles you to day-one accesson April 8. Let’s take a look at the release timings for the upcoming Xbox exclusive valid for different parts of the world....

November was a great month forhardware sales, but it was even better for software, with sales up 62 percent to an incredible $1.3 billion. These days, it’s in high fashion to “claim” titles in NPD’s top ten chart as victories for the related consoles. In days past, this was only done with exclusives, but competition now has the big three grabbing for anything they can use. If the console maker didn’t make these top thn titles, then all credit should be going to the developer and publisher, right?...

It appears that developer Tokyo RPG Factory will be merging into Square Enix. According to Gematsu, as part of an absorption-type merger, Square Enix will inherit all assets and liabilities of Tokyo RPG Factory and the subsidiary will be dissolved and cease to exist. The company was established back in June 2015 as a Square Enix subsidiary to developI am Setsunaand would go on to also developLost SphearandOninaki. JRPG Developer since 2015 Tokyo RPG Factory released all three of its titles in a roughly three-year span between 2016-2019....

The Nintendo Switch version was updated today to fix the blue floor bug and a ‘zoom offset’ issue After a few weeks of playingStardew Valley1.5 on Nintendo Switch, I’m at the point – 60-some hours into the game, and a bit into Year 3 – where I’m prioritizing Ginger Island now that I’m cool with most of the villagers and the Community Center and Movie Theater quests are wrapped up. Ginger Island is a huge time-sink with lots to do everywhere I look....