Image: NintendoAfter some rumours, Metroid Ravenous has now been officially confirmed by Nintendo during the latest Direct broadcast. It’s launching for the Switch 2 on 28th January 2027, with pre-orders now live on the eShop. Alongside this, the game’s estimated file size has also been revealed. According to Nintendo, it will require 20.2GB of space to install. In comparison, MercurySteam’s 2021 Nintendo Switch title Metroid Dread requires 4.2GB of space. Samus’ more recent release Metroid Prime 4 Beyond requires 27.6GB of space on the Switch 2. In Metroid Ravenous, you’ll once again take control of the renowned bounty hunter, as…
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It’s another one of those layoff days, unfortunately. This time the studio in question is PowerWash Simulator developer FuturLab, who have laid off seven staff members with little fanfare after cancelling a project that has been in development for several years. This comes from This Week In Videogames, whose sources told them that FutureLab CEO Kirsty Rigden announced this unrevealed project had been cancelled back in June, 2026, with work having started on it two to three years ago. A source even noted that those working on the project were “left hanging with no new work being assigned…
“Low-poly dogs!” I hear you chant in the distance. “Low-poly dogs!” The war cry gets louder. “Low-poly dogs!” It’s inescapable now, the low-poly dogs requested by the masses are here… Or, well, in the digital world of Old School RuneScape at the very least, as Jagex have added in a new members-only quest that allows you to pick up your very own puppy. This new quest is on the nosely called A Ruff Situation, whereby you must help characters Talia and Chase at the Ice Mountain’s new dog shelter. What you actually need to do in this quest,…
Is Katamari Damacy an evil game? I realised as soon as I wrote the heading for this one that calling one game an evil version of Katamari might not be quite right, given the level of destruction you can enact in that series. Perhaps we’re getting into an ontological argument there, so I’m going to move past it and properly introduce you to ROLLA, a game where you play as a mobile mass of flesh that seeks to wreak havoc upon the world by rolling around and destroying everything. ROLLA differs from Katamari in a number of ways.…
Goodbye, Build the Wall. The Tetris-style game that the US government had stuck on the White House website as a way of promoting the Trump administration’s commitment to brutalising and persecuting immigrants in the name of securing borders. After the Tetris Company hinted that they might be eyeing legal action, Build the Wall is gone, replaced by a far more palatable 404 error message.
Terranigma was very much an enigma of a video game, especially to North American audiences, as the title never released stateside. Gaining a massive cult following from its original release in 1995, the game’s fanbase petitioned in 2021 to bring Terranigma back, either as a straight re-release or a remaster. Sure enough, with the successful petition and a little support from artist Kamui Fujiwara and co-composer Miyoko Takaoka, the game has finally been confirmed to return next year from Clear River Games.At Gamescom, I was lucky enough to sit down at Clear River Games’ booth and play a bit of…
Hello there, loyal regulars and filthy, fickle drop-ins! A merry New Week to you, wherever you are. Thanks for feeding the Maw while we were away last Monday. You were mostly successful in sating the creature’s hunger and preventing cosmic disturbances, though we didn’t get off scot-free: the Maw appears to have eaten one of the more popular videogame genres. Naturally, I can no longer remember which genre it was, but perhaps we can discern the contours of the rupture and repair the continuum by making deductions from still-existing games and the current make-up of videogame publishing generally. Or if…
My only experience of Left 4 Dead 2 is a handful of sessions in my youth where a friend handed me a controller (me, a person whose shooter experience extended to Ratchet and Clank at the time), told me nothing, and let the chaos unfold. I did not do a good job. But it left a lasting impression! Though perhaps that impression would have changed had I seen its cinematic trailer as soon as Valve had wanted to release it. The problem was, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board weren’t so hot on the game, including its marketing materials, so…
Do I need to explain how Cyclops from the X-Men’s powers work? I’m going to anyway just in case. He shoots beams from his eyes! More or less, I think it’s technically energy from a punch dimension? I’m not an X-Men nerd though, so correct me in the comments. Main point is, he can never stop shooting those beams, which is why he has to always be wearing glasses at the very least. Which, as it turns out, makes for a fun video game concept, as it’s now been manifested in the form of Laser Guy, a twin-stick “anti-shooter”…
A new report suggests that Xbox has capped its cloud gaming usage to 15 hours for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers because that’s when the service stops being profitable. Xbox announced hard monthly time limits will be added to its cloud gaming streaming service earlier this week, with time limits coming into effect for all three tiers of Xbox Game Pass subscription. Game Pass Essential users will be able to stream games through the cloud for just five hours a month, Premium subscribers for ten, and Ultimate subscribers will get 15 hours a month. According to Windows Central, which cites unnamed…