The price of the Switch 2 hardware will take into account numerous factors, including Nintendo’s trademark affordability, its president has said. During a Q&A followingNintendo‘s Q3 financial results, Nintendo presidentShuntaro Furukawawas asked about the company’s thoughts on hardware pricing. Specifically, Furukawa was asked if there was any change to Nintendo’s stance on what constitutes an acceptable price point, given various global economic factors. Furukawa replied that not only does Nintendo have to take into account Japan’s increased inflation rate, it also has to consider that the exchange rate environment has changed considerably since theSwitchlaunched in 2017....

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick expects new entries in the publisher’s major franchises to be released more frequently in future. Red Dead Redemption 2arrived over eight years after the original game released, there haven’t been new Grand Theft Auto or BioShock games since 2013, and this September’sBorderlands 3will launch seven years after its predecessor. Under Zelnick’s watch,Take-Twowill continue “resting titles” and operating a “fewer, bigger, better strategy” as opposed to annualising its franchises, but the executive toldGamesIndustry....

Netflix has revealed the director and writer of the upcoming BioShock film adaptation. In a tweet on the officialNetflixaccount, the streaming giant announced that Francis Lawrence, director of I am Legend and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, will helm the film The script will be written by Michael Green, who’s been credited with working on Logan, Blade Runner 2049 and American Gods. No synopsis of the film has been made public, though the tweet’s accompanying image shows a Big Daddy, in an expanded version of the cover art from the first game, suggesting it will take place in Rapture rather than Columbia....

The Borderlands movie could only manage a domestic opening weekend of $8.8 million. As reported by trade publicationVariety, the film debuted at fourth place in the North American box office, doing far worse than the $50 million opening weekend achieved by last week’s other major release, romantic drama It Ends With Us. It also placed well behind Deadpool & Wolverine (which is on its third weekend and earned $54.2 million), and Twisters (earning $15....

The first Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online service. PokémonMystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team will be coming to the GBA library, which is available to Expansion Pack members, on August 9. The game – which was released alongside Blue Rescue Team on the DS and was the last ever official GBA release – is the first title in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series of roguelike games....

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s latest trailer takes fans on a whistle-stop tour of some of the planets they’ll get to visit in the game and shows off several means of travelling around them at speed. Insomniac’s title is billed as an “interdimensional adventure” that uses the PS5’s SSD to rapidly transport players between different locations. According to the game’s latest trailer (below), it features “new planets, new versions of old planets, and alternate dimension versions of old and new planets”....

The next game in the Call of Duty series is Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Microsoft has confirmed. The game was announced with a debut trailer, which can be seen below. “The year is 2035 and the world is on the brink of chaos, ravaged by violent conflict and psychological warfare following the events of the fan-favorite titles Black Ops 2 andBlack Ops 6,”Activisionexplained. “Wielding cutting-edge technology, the Black Ops team led by David Mason must fight back against a manipulative enemy who weaponizes fear above all else....

Pokémon fans hoping to visit the Pokémon Center pop-up store in London can now reserve a time slot to attend. The pop-up store will be at the ExCeL Centre from August 17-21 as part of thePokémonWorld Championships, which are taking place in London this year. However, the last time a Pokémon Center pop-up store opened in London, the queues it created were enormous. As such, fans are now encouraged tobook a time slot onlinein order to reduce potential waiting times....

Astral Chain director and Nier Automata designer Takahisa Taura has finally confirmed his exit from PlatinumGames, following months of speculation. In the latest issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu (transcribed byGenki), Taura confirmed he has quit Platinum and formed his own company, Eel Game Studio, adding that he couldn’t share more information at this point. News of Taura’s departure has been expected ever since heremoved reference to PlatinumGamesfrom his X handle last year, andchanged his place of workon his publicFacebookpage....

Retro remaster developer Nightdive Studios has announced that it will be releasing a remaster of Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion. Nightdive previously released a remaster of the original Turok: Dinosaur Hunter onPCin 2015, before also remastering its sequel Turok 2: Seeds of Evil in 2017. Both remasters were released onXbox Onein 2018,Switchin 2019 andPS4in 2021. The Turok 3 remaster will release on all platforms simultaneously, launching onPS5,Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC on November 14....

Ubisoft games could soon be added to Xbox Game Pass, a prominent journalist in the Microsoft scene has suggested. Windows Central editor Jez Corden claims that theAssassin’s Creedpublisher could incorporate itsUbisoft+ platform intoXbox’s own subscription service, according to his sources. Cordenwroteon Twitter: “I imagine it would be a vault or smaller slice of older games, but crazier things have happened. I always thoughtEAPlay would be an extra tier of Game Pass, but they just rolled that bad boy right in....

An official art book for Hogwarts Legacy has received an updated release date, which could potentially mark the game’s release too. The Art and Making ofHogwarts Legacy: Exploring the Unwritten Wizarding World originally had an apparent placeholder date of December 31. Customers who have pre-ordered the book fromAmazonUK, however, have been receiving emails stating that its release date has been revised to July 14, 2025. These emails (seen by VGC) and the original item listing (noticed onReddit) could infer that the game – which is still only officially slated for release in “2022” – will be released in early December....

Nintendo has added Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games to Switch Online service, after many months of players requesting that it do so. There are currently nine Game Boy and Game Boy Color games available via aSwitchOnline subscription, and a further six Game Boy Advance games available through its Expansion Pack tier. Because some of these games are nearly 35 years old, some players may not be familiar with all 15 titles currently available....