Author: Danny Casey

Analysts think they have figured out which patent Nintendo intends to utilize to win its case after Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed a shocking patent lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair. Pocketpair later released a statement in which it claimed it did not know which patents it was accused of infringing. Speaking to Yahoo Japan about the lawsuit (translated by Automaton), Japanese patent attorney and intellectual property adviser Kiyoshi Kurihara mentioned a “killer patent” that centered on the process of actually catching Pokémon. Kurihara is cited as stating, “It looks like it would be impossible to avoid if you want…

After 13 years of operation, Microsoft has announced that it would soon phase out the Xbox Ambassadors program. On its website today, the corporation announced that it will be closing this section of its community outreach as of right now. After that, on October 15, the Xbox Ambassador website will close. Until then, all active service subscribers can use the remaining coupons and awards. Xbox Ambassadors, according to Microsoft, “represent what inclusivity, safety, and fun are at the core of a healthy gaming community.” Accepted participants will promote the Xbox community by representing the brand. The firm hopes to use…

Kill Knight is unlike any twin-stick shooter you have ever played. While the core of this intensely intense action game is shooting constantly as enemies swarm in, making you dodge and shimmy your way to every corner of the game’s cramped arenas, you also have access to a sword, which adds to the game’s (at first) overwhelming array of mechanics. In other words, Kill Knight is a tightly nested twin-stick shooter, but that’s precisely how it was intended to be—to separate the wheat from the chaff. This is a throwback to classic arcade sensibilities; it’s a twin-stick shooter game with…

Carmen Sandiego, a single-player puzzle-adventure game relaunched from the 1980s and 1990s, is a big edutainment hit, according to Gameloft and HarperCollins Productions. This one will debut on Netflix in Q1 of 2025 and then on PC (via Steam), PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch later that same quarter. It is based on an original 1980s intellectual property (although it visually resembles the recent Netflix animated series that ran from 2019 to 2021 – and on a related note, the publishers note that a live-action Carmen Sandiego movie is also in the works at Netflix). There will be “traditional modes” and…

It is not hard to tell when you enter a party if you want to stay late or head home early. Who is scheduled to attend? What is the venue like? Which activities are they? The same is true when starting up a fresh Mario Party, and after playing Super Mario Party Jamboree for about an hour, I can tell with confidence that I will most likely stay in until the last call when the house lights come on. However, 2018’s Super Mario Party, which got us back on the board and out of the automobile in a game that…

Capcom has revealed that Street Fighter 6 has now sold more than four million copies. The fighting game went on sale for PlayStation4, Xbox One, and PC in June 2023; this marks the 15-month mark since the game’s launch. “We appreciate you coming and helping us accomplish this goal!” Capcom stated. “We hope you are enthusiastic about SF6’s future as we want to host more events and offer more content!” Seven months after its debut, Street Fighter 6 sold three million copies back in January. That indicates that it took a little more than six months to add a million…

Creator In The Casting of Frank Stone, the interactive horror movie expert wants us to be dead by daytime when in the past Supermassive Games dared us to live until sunrise. The goal of this narrative-driven spin-off of the well-liked asymmetric multiplayer sneak-and-slash action game is to provide a deeper understanding of the history of The Entity, the evil force behind all evil in the Dead by Daylight universe. But aged, rapid-fire event-heavy gameplay, terribly shallow fighting, a flat cast of characters, and a total lack of scares combine to create a six-hour boredom that is hardly worth sticking up…

Not many ideas are more enticing right away than Squirrel with a Gun. A sandbox game in which you take control of a rodent with a rifle and terrorize the local populace? Sure, please! And to some extent, that idea does live up to expectations; there are plenty of belly-laugh-inducing moments early on, and the silly adventure’s first few hours are full of fun. However, rather than sitting on a mound of hilarious acorns, this bizarre Sciuridae emulator stuffs its cheeks with absurd jokes all at once, only to discover that its stocks are depleted as winter draws near. That…

Just over a year after its worldwide release, Warner Bros. Games has announced the closing of Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, a mobile game. The collectible card role-playing game Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, created by Zen Studio, was released in the West in June 2023 by Warner Bros. Games’ Portkey Games publishing banner. In the game, you take on the role of a freshman at Hogwarts and gather cards to use as spells during battles. On August 26, Harry Potter: Magic Awakened was taken down from the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. The servers will remain operational until October…

You might get a sense of Concord if you take a copy of Overwatch from a dusty GameStop shelf and place it beneath Peter Quill’s stinky armpit from Guardians of the Galaxy. This sci-fi competitor from Sony plays it fairly safe when it comes to competitive hero shooters. It features instantly endearing characters rendered in breathtakingly gorgeous cutscenes and ability-based PvP combat that never addresses why those characters are fighting one another when they are allies in those same cutscenes. But, Concord is still enjoyable to play even if it doesn’t provide much in the way of novelty. I’ve played…