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The founder and CEO of Koei Tecmo says he’s mainly responsible for the lengthy development of Nioh. TheTeam Ninjagame was initially announced in 2004 under the working title Oni, but wasn’t actually released until early 2017. During this time, the game went through a handful of very different iterations, from a traditional RPG developed by Koei to an action RPG developed byOmega Force, to a full Ninja Gaiden-style action game developed by Team Ninja....

Sony has opened pre-orders for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Having recently announced anOctober 20, 2023 release date for the game, pre-orders went live on June 16 at 10am local time (10am ET / 7am PT in the US). Insomniac’sPS5exclusive is available in three editions. All pre-orders come with an early unlock Arachknight Suit for Peter Parker with three additional colour variants, an early unlock Shadow Spider Suit for Miles Morales with three extra colour variants, an early unlock Web Grabber gadget, plus three skill points....

Konami has announced that Metal Gear in Concert is coming to the Royal Albert Hall this year. The performance will include music from across the franchise, including Encounter and Father and Son, and fan-favourite songs such as The Best is Yet to Come, Snake Eater, and Heavens Divide. The UK premiere of Metal Gear in Concert will be performed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Buc, and will feature special guest appearances from Donna Burke, the vocalist behind Snake Eater, and actress Stefanie Joosten, who played Quiet in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain....

Microsoft has confirmed it plans to extend the warranty of its Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, weeks after a class-action lawsuit was amended to include the premium peripheral. As reported byWindows Central, a message on theXbox Supportwebsite confirms that the warranty will be extended from 90 days to one year, effective immediately, amid reports of issues among buyers. The changes apply retroactively to allXboxElite Series 2 controllers shipped since its November 2019 release, and payments made for repairs outside the previous warranty will be refunded....

Microsoft has confirmed that it’s no longer developing games that will run natively on Xbox One. “We’ve moved on to Gen 9,”XboxGame Studios headMatt BootytoldAxios, referring toXbox Series X/S. That doesn’t meanMicrosoftis leaving the last generation behind, however. While there won’t be nativeXbox Oneversions of Series X/S games likeForza Motorsport, Xbox One players will be able to stream current-gen first-party titlessuch as Turn 10’s racerthoughXbox Cloud Gamingincluded with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate....

A modder has managed to get Christopher Nolan’s 2020 movie Tenet running on Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance, albeit with some major sacrifices to picture quality. Bob Wulffwas able to use conversion software to downgrade the film until it was in a format that was low-res enough to run on the hardware, then saved it as a series of .gba files that could run on emulators. Deciding to take things one step further, YouTuber user Wullf – who is also a graphic artist – then copied the files to actual GBA cartridges and designed bespoke label art for them, to make them look like part of the GBA Video line of entertainment cartridges that were released in North America between 2004-2007....

Nintendo has confirmed it will announce its next-generation console during its current fiscal year, ending March 2025. In a statement published alongside its financial results, presidentShuntaro Furukawasaid the company would also hold aNintendo Directthis June, but claimed it would not include information on the new console, suggesting hardware news would come later. “This is Furukawa, President ofNintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor toNintendo Switchwithin this fiscal year,” he said....

Nintendo has announced it’s releasing a separate, adults-only Nintendo 64 Switch Online app in Japan. Nintendo 64SwitchOnline 18+ will be released alongside GoldenEye 007 and Jet Force Gemini on November 30. Unlike the subscription service’s other N64 games, Japanese users will be required to download and launch the separate app in order to play the two classicRaretitles. The drastic circumvention is almost certainly due to Japan’s age rating requirements. Both GoldenEye and Jet Force Gemini are rated ‘Z’ in Japan, which means they’re banned from sale to any person under the age of 18....

A special Nintendo Switch 2 Direct episode of VGC: The Video Game Podcast is available now. VGC’s Jordan Middler and Chris Scullion break down all the news from today’sNintendo Direct. If you missed any of the news from the show, such as the announcement of a new Donkey Kong game, theSwitch 2 release date, or anything else, you can check out our comprehensive lineup ofNintendo Switch 2 news. The audio version of this podcast will be released tomorrow....

Nintendo Switch 2 has broken PS2’s first-month sales record in Japan. According to data supplied by Famitsu (reported byYomiuri) the console has reportedly sold at least 1.5 million units in Japan during its first month. It’s worth noting, as highlighted by Katan Games’Dr. Serkan Toto, this doesn’t include units sold byNintendothemselves; therefore, the number is likely much higher. Famitsu collects data from over 3,000 Japanese retail stores. According to this data, theNintendo Switch 2has sold 1,538,260 units in its first month, the highest sales for any console in Japan since the publication began collecting data in 1996....

Nintendo has delayed pre-orders of the Nintendo Switch 2 in Canada. In a statement,Nintendosaid it intends to align Canadian pre-orders of the new system with US pre-orders, which were pushed back last week. “Pre-orders forNintendo Switch 2in Canada will not start on Jul 11, 2025, to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the U.S.,” Nintendo of Canada said in a statement. “Nintendo will provide updated information at a later date....

Nintendo will release a blue version of the Switch Lite console in May, it’s announced. The new blue design will be released on May 7 in Europe, and May 21 in North America. The North American launch will coincide with the release date of theSwitchport of cult 3DS gameMiitopia. The Switch Lite launched on June 19, 2025 with three colour options; grey, yellow and turquoise. A fourth colour, coral, was released on July 20, 2025 in Japan and June 16, 2025 in the rest of the world....

Nintendo’s latest WarioWare game has inadvertently led to the discovery of several Luigi’s Mansion beta assets. As is traditional for the series, WarioWare: Get It Together contains many microgames based on classicNintendogames, one of which has players hunting for ghosts in the spookyGameCubelaunch title. However, following the game’s release this week, fans working ona restoration of the E3 2001 Luigi’s Mansionversion discovered that WarioWare’s microgame actually contains pre-release assets, with more detail than in the final game....