Sharon Ross
Nintendo’s feature-length animated Mario movie is coming Dec. 21, 2022, in the United States, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto announced during Thursday’s Nintendo Direct. Timing elsewhere will be announced later. Oh yes, and the movie will star Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit), and Jack Black (School of Rock). The full … Read more
A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next. To go alongside the Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games coming to Nintendo Switch Online, Nintendo is also releasing new controllers for its hybrid home/handheld console. Starting in October, Nintendo Switch Online members will have a chanced to purchase Switch-compatible N64 … Read more
After a leak earlier in the day spoiled the surprise, Nintendo announced Kirby and the Forgotten Land at its latest Direct presentation. Set to arrive on Switch in the spring of next year, the title will mark the first mainline Kirby game since Nintendo released Kirby Star Allies in 2018. The company shared a trailer … Read more
Valve promised it would work with anti-cheat software makers EAC and BattlEye to ensure some of the most popular games will run on its upcoming Steam Deck Linux-based gaming handheld, and one of those companies is now officially on board — Epic Games announced today that its Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) now supports Linux and Mac. … Read more
Heading into Thursday’s Nintendo Direct, fans had high hopes and reasonable expectations for three pieces of news: Animal Crossing New Horizons and its badly overdue content update; the reveal of the last fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate; and maybe an official name for the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. … Read more
A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next. Nintendo just finished a solid Direct video event. It announced a new 3D Kirby game, the Castlevania Advance Collection, and Bayonetta 3’s release timing. But all I can think about is the Mario movie, which has broken me. Near the end … Read more
New York City has passed sweeping legislation aimed at protecting workers of app-based food delivery services like Grubhub and DoorDash. The move makes the city one of the first municipalities in the US to aggressively regulate an industry that has grown by leaps and bounds during the pandemic. Per Bloomberg, the legislation touches nearly every … Read more
Microsoft has a new phone of its own, the Surface Duo 2, arriving October 21st — and if you buy an optional “Surface Duo 2 Pen Cover,” you’ll be able to magnetically dock and wirelessly charge the company’s optional $130 Surface Slim Pen 2 stylus and use it with the Android phone. The need for … Read more
Nintendo’s September 2021 Direct offered a big hit of nostalgia for longtime Nintendo fans. The 40-minute presentation revived titles announced long ago and even revealed a few surprise projects coming later this year through the summer of 2022. One of the biggest announcements wasn’t even a game, as Shigeru Miyamoto himself revealed the cast for … Read more
A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next. Square Enix announced Chocobo GP is coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch in 2022. This is a new kart racer in the style of Mario Kart but featuring some of the creatures and characters from the Final Fantasy series. Nintendo showed … Read more