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Nintendo shares hit a record high on Wednesday as the company rode a surge in stocks that saw Japan’s Nikkei close at its highest level since February 1990. Shares ofNintendoreached as high as 7,902 yen ($54), helping the company’s market capitalisation surpass 10 trillion yen ($69 billion) for the first time since November 2007. The Nikkei Stock Average was up 2.01% on Wednesday to close at its highest level since February 1990....

Obsidian has released a single-player demo for Grounded on both PC and Xbox One. The demo is available to all users onSteamas part of its Summer Games Festival, but console users will need to be signed up to theXbox Insiderprogram in order to download it. It will allow players to experience one in-game day inGrounded, allowing them to craft tools and weapons, build structures, and “survive against the various perils of being small,” according toXbox....

Microsoft has announced October’s Xbox Live Games with Gold titles. Maid of Sker (normally $24.99/£19.99) will then be available as a free download from October 16 to November 15. On Xbox One andXbox 360, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy (normally $14.99/£11.99) will be free forXboxLive Gold members from October 1-15. And from October 16 until the end of the month, Costume Quest (normally $14.99/£9.99) will be free to download....

Electronic Arts has filed a trademark for Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville in Europe. As spotted byGematsu, thetrademarkwas filed with the European Union Intellectual Property Office on August 9. While it’s yet to be officially announced, Battle for Neighborville is expected to be the next shooter entry in the Plants vs. Zombies series. According to aResetErapost, a listing for the game briefly appeared onEA’s own website in July....

Ken Kutaragi, the former Sony executive widely credited as ‘The Father of PlayStation’, has started a new career in the robotics industry. Since late August Kutaragi has been working as the CEO of Tokyo’s Ascent Robotics, an AI startup company which is aiming to make affordable robots that can safely do physical work alongside humans in factories and logistics centers. In a new interview withBloomberg, Kutaragi, 70, said he believes he can bring the same management qualities to robotics that he used to build thePlayStationbusiness atSony....

Sony has confirmed the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games for April. The latest batch of games being added to thePlayStationPlus Game Catalog includeHogwarts Legacyand Tape 2 ofLost Records: Bloom & Rage(Tape 1 was added to the service in February). Two retro games are also being added to the PS Plus Premium tier, with the PS1 version ofAlone in the Dark2 and thePS2version of War of the Monsters both coming on April 15....

A number of PlayStation 5 owners are reporting that the console’s first major system software update has tackled a bug related to its Blu-ray drive. Since the system’s launch in November 2020, users have reported an issue which results inPS5 discs spinning at various intervals, often loudly. Some users have said it happens on the hour every hour, while others claimed to have experienced it every 15-20 minutes. While it has been speculated that the spinning could be part of an authentication process, it reportedly occurs even when the inserted disc isn’t in use....

Psychonauts 2 developer Double Fine is working on multiple new projects according to a recent blog post. In an update on the crowd-funding platform,Fig,the team revealed that it is moving on fromPsychonauts 2onto new projects. “The studio is already splitting up into various teams and starting different projects that we think you’ll enjoy. We like experimentation here atDouble Fine. Every game is a chance to explore new ideas, new visual styles or gameplay, emotions, and more....

Pyra and Mythra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 will be coming to Super Smash Bros Ultimate later today. The dual-character fighters will be available as part of the game’s Fighters Pass 2 or individually for $5.99 USD / £5.39,Nintendoconfirmed on Thursday. Players can switch between Pyra and Mythra at will, similar to the way Zelda and Sheik could transform into each other in earlier Smash Bros games, directorMasahiro Sakuraiexplained during a live stream....

Remedy Entertainment has said there is “nothing to see” regarding the recent reveal of a trademark dispute with Take-Two Interactive. Earlier this week it emerged that Rockstar’s parent companyTake-Twohad filed its opposition to Remedy’s new logo, which was published in 2023 and featured a stylised ‘R’. According to the grounds for opposition, Take-Two’s claim suggested “there exists a likelihood of confusion on the part of the public” betweenRemedy‘s new logo and one of Take-Two’s own trademark logos, specifically the logo of its subsidiaryRockstar Games....

Remedy has shared new details about Codename Condor, its co-op multiplayer Control spin-off. Billed as the studio’s “first step towards service-based games”, the title has an initial development budget of €25 million ($27.1m). Built onRemedy‘s in-house Northlight engine, it’s set to enter full production this year forPC,PS5andXbox Series X/S. “After the Hiss Invasion, the Oldest House is under lockdown: a boiling pot of volatile and dangerous supernatural forces,” Remedy said of the game in its annual financial report....

Capcom has released Resident Evil 4’s latest update and removed a popular speedrunning trick. According to the patch notes for the April 23 patch, the developer has fixed an issue which allowed players to warp through walls when using the scope in certain areas. Expectedly, many players were using this trick to ‘speedrun’ the game, which is when users compete to finish a title as quickly as possible, employing any and all glitches to do so....

Returnal has won the Best Game award at this year’s BAFTA Games Awards. Housemarque‘sPS5exclusive was nominated for the main award alongsideDeathloop,Forza Horizon 5, Inscryption,It Takes Two, andRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart. It also won the awards for Audio Achievement, Music and Performer In A Leading Role, which was awarded to Jane Perry for her role as Selene Vassos. Other multiple winners included Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (for Animation and Technical Achievement), It Takes Two (for Multiplayer and Original Property) and Unpacking (for Narrative and EE Game of the Year, the only award voted for by the public)....