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It was a big morning with Nintendo holding its September Nintendo Direct. Here's all the main announcements: Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online at an extra cost with full online support. . When it launches in October, the Nintendo 64 games will include Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Lylat Wars, Yoshi's Island, Ocarina of Time, Mario Tennis and Super Mario 64. S...

There it is. In typical September fashion, a 40 minute Nintendo Direct has been confirmed for Friday morning. Nintendo confirmed that we’ll be getting a 40 minute Direct featuring information focusing on games releasing this Winter. It’s highly likely we’ll see whatever is related to that controller rumour that was floating around earlier today, which likely means something new is coming to Ninten...

An FCC filing has revealed that a new Nintendo Switch controller could be getting revealed later this week. The FCC has listed a game controller that is being created by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch, with a short term confidentiality applied until Friday, September 24th. The fact that a confidentiality period was specified, would normally mean that this is due to end when the product is set to...

A few weeks ago it leaked that the Disney Classic Games Collection was back with The Jungle Book and we now seem to have a somewhat official announcement which comes courtesy of Vooks. The new version of the title will include the SNES, Game Boy and SEGA Mega Drive versions of The Jungle Book. It will also add the SNES version of Aladdin, which was sorely missed from the original release. See omny...

THQ Nordiq has announced SpongeBob Squarepants: The Cosmic Shake. It’s a new SpongeBob adventure game coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch sometime in the future. The game will see two buddies unintentionally opening up a bunch of portals across different worlds. You’ll play in seven distinct worlds and put on more than 30 cosmic skins in order to save the universe. See...

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This morning, Sledgehammer Games’ follow-up to Call of Duty WWII, Call of Duty: Vanguard, was officially revealed alongside an epic trailer. The game is set to release for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC on November 5. Ttrailer has confirmed that the game will once again be set during the Second World War. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CD Projekt Red has announced that Cyberpunk 2077's patch version 1.3 will bring some new and exciting changes to Cyberpunk 2077 as well as the first piece of DLC. So far, we know that this will include U.I changes that make the game easier to navigate as well as a cheaper perks reset option that will allow for more experimentation between builds. --- Xbox has confirmed that the Xbox Series X is fi...

The next Call Of Duty game which we safely assume is called Call Of Duty: Vanguard thanks to leaks seems like it’ll be announced in the very near future. As detailed by Charlie Intel, Activision accidentally left artwork for the game including the game’s logo and a mention of the open beta in the latest Call Of Duty: Season 5 update. The imagery pretty much confirmed earlier leaks suggesting Sledg...

It's being reported that a Grand Theft Auto remastered trilogy is coming to PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch later this year. The trilogy will apparently include Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto Vice City And Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. The games will be remastered in Unreal Engine and will be a mix of “old and new graphics”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

Nintendo revealed a whole bunch of stuff overnight in their latest Indie World direct, including a bunch of games available right now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nintendo has confirmed that a new Nintendo Switch called the Nintendo Switch OLED Model will release later this year. It’s releasing on October 7th and it’ll have a 7-inch OLED screen, a wide adjustable stand, better speakers, 64gb of built-in storage, a wired LAN port and more. The console will sell for $539.95 in Australia and it'll launch in two colours. The all familiar Neon Blue/Red combo as...

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Amazon Prime Day is just a couple of days away. It technically is happening on Monday, June 21st and Tuesday, June 22nd, but things will be kicking off at midnight late on Sunday night, and that’s when we’ll start covering it. Our Prime Day Hub is already LIVE so bookmark it in the leadup to Prime Day. It’s expected that deals will be spread over the two days, so just because there’s not something...

Although we’re hot on the heels of the morning’s Xbox and Bethesda showcase which brought us glimpses at Starfield, Forza Horizon 5, and Halo Infinite, we’ve received news that Xbox is hosting another game showcase tomorrow. Xbox’x Major Nelson has given us a bit more information about the Xbox Games Showcase Extended. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nintendo closed out E3 with a bunch of great announcements. Mario Party Superstars is releasing on October 29th and it brings 100 of the best minigames from the series and five Nintendo 64 boards. It also has full online play across all modes. Metroid Dread is the first new 2D in nearly 20 years. It releases on October 8th, 2021. It also has a really good special edition that celebrates the franch...

Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin was announced yesterday, with a PS5 demo to drop straight after. Whilst that promise was delivered on, with the demo appearing on the PlayStation Store, but unfortunately, anybody who downloaded it was met with a “data corrupted error”. Square Enix is apparently aware of the issue but it's been 36 hours after announcing and at the time of recording, it st...