Level-5 hit big with Professor Layton back in the late 2000s. Its titular gentleman puzzle solver was one of the early success stories on the Nintendo DS, and it wasn’t long before a string of sequels, a film and even a crossover game with Capcom’s Ace Attorney, Phoenix Wright, followed …

Accessibility options aren’t yet an industry standard, but can make a world of difference for disabled gamers. Aardvark Swift’s Marketing Executive Joey Relton and Programming Consultant Andy Jenkinson talked to SpecialEffect’s Projects Manager Bill Donegan about some simple solutions studios can implement to allow everyone to play their games.

People hoping to make financial gain from the expected scarcity of Nintendo’s upcoming SNES Mini have been dealt a blow. As posted on Neogaf, customers who placed bulk orders for the upcoming retro console on Amazon have been told that their orders have been trimmed back down to just one …

The digital art and design studio will open a second studio in US

Retailer GAME has told investors that its full year profits will be substantially below previous expectations”. It is blaming the performance on what it has for a long time described as market challenges”, but also specifically this time on the Nintendo Switch stock situation. Consumer demand for Nintendo Switch has …

Gamers are facing a bit of a struggle to secure pre-orders for Nintendo’s recently announced SNES Classic Mini. The device earlier this week went up for pre-order with retailers such as GAME and Amazon before almost instantly going out of stock. Nintendo itself then made pre-orders available directly through its …

Sean Cleaver sits down with Ghost Town Games to find out how the two-man team made a BAFTA award-winning co-op experience and how touring it around conventions gave valuable feedback

After a relatively quiet week at Japanese retail, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is back at the top of Japan’s weekly charts, according to the latest numbers from Famitsu. The title had been inched out of the number one spot for a couple of weeks following the launch of Nihon Falcom’s …

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has bitten in what is almost approaching a war of words in the crossplatform multiplayer dispute. An upcoming update to Minecraft will introduce online multiplayer across PC, Xbox, mobile and Nintendo, but not PS4. The same is true of Rocket League, whose upcoming Nintendo Switch version …

Is it miscommunication, strategy or is it a genuine concern that cross-play will be a danger to players?