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It’s Ghost

Nintendo has announced that it will be delisting Bandai Namco’s fun Paccle Royale, (no, it doesn’t work, does it?), title Pac-Man 99 this fall. Currently available from the Nintendo eShop as a benefit to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, the game will be unable to download from October 8.

They did it their way

Stranger of Paradise was a very different lens into the world of Final Fantasy than we’re accustomed to. Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo partnered with Square Enix to reimagine the story of the first Final Fantasy, creating a lovably irreverent protagonist with Jack Garland in the process.

It was, by all accounts, a solid vision of an action-driven, alternative take on Final Fantasy‘s origins.

In California, Sizzle Season is more commonly known as “The State is on Fire” Season

I’m not sure what happened between me and Splatoon, but spare time to play the game seemed to evaporate for me once the series made the move to Nintendo Switch. I still adore everything about this series. I just have a tough time making space in my schedule for it. Hopefully, I can find a way to turn that around with the start of Sizzle Season.

The Overwatch 2 team is taking PvE in a seasonal direction

Blizzard is changing its plans for the long-awaited Overwatch 2 PvE mode. In a developer update today, the company confirms that it’s scrapping its original plans for the mode, pivoting its PvE side into the seasonal content structure of the game.

Back in 2019, Blizzard Entertainment officially unveiled Overwatch 2, a follow-up to its 2016 hero shooter.

Target hit faster than Nintendo Switch in same territory

Xbox appears to be sitting pretty in the UK, at least according to new data released by the chart-building analyst Gfk, which notes that the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S platforms have now surpassed two million sales within Blighty’s borders.

As reported by GamesIndustry.

Get ready for something even wackier than Paul W.S. Anderson

Did you come across a preview for the upcoming Resident Evil: Death Island that got you all hyped? Well, we have great news, then. It turns out Capcom has already made many other Resident Evil animated movies in the past…

…And most of them are so beyond bonkers that even fans of the games wouldn’t believe it.

Horror Almost Unreal (5)

Bloober Team has revealed the launch date for its long-in-development release, Layers of Fear — The highly technical psychological horror title will launch on PC and Gen9 platforms on June 15, with a time-limited demo available to play on PC from now until May 22.

At least you’ll know why you fell over

Ahead of the launch of Street Fighter 6, not to mention this weekend’s open beta, Capcom has premiered a new series of video guides, giving newcomers a bit of a crash course on the new sequel’s characters and mechanics, so you’ll know what to expect come Fight Friday, (My words, not theirs.

That’s ‘delayed’ to you and I

Skybound Games and developer Mega Cat Studios has announced that the colorful pro-wrestling RPG WrestleQuest will no longer meet its May release window and will now step into the ring sometime this summer.

Did Redfall add any value for you?

On any given month when there’s a massive first-party value offer for a service like Xbox Game Pass, you can bet on the rest of the month quaking in fear of the might of the publisher that holds all the power. But in the case of Redfall (particularly when it comes to public perception), this might have been a not-great month to flex.