NINTENDO
Three more games arrive on Game Boy Advance – Nintendo Classics starting October 14, 2026: Kururin Paradise, Metal Slug Advance and Monster Rancher Advance. A Nintendo Switch Online membership by itself isn’t enough to play them. The Game Boy Advance lineup falls under the Expansion Pack, so a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription…
PlayStation
Black is coming back to the PS5. On October 13, 2026, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced that the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition Midnight Black Japanese-language model will launch on Thursday, November 19, 2026. The suggested retail price is 55,000 yen (about US$359, converted at 153 yen to the US dollar), and the model number is…
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Comments streaming right to left across a Nintendo Switch screen. That sight comes to an end at 23:59 on Wednesday, March 31, 2027. On October 13, 2026, Dwango announced it is shutting down the Niconico app for Nintendo Switch. And at the same time, another line was drawn. There are no plans to support Nintendo…
Video game
Forty years is far too long a career to file away as “the Dragon Quest guy.” The first game Yuji Horii ever put out into the world was 1983’s The Portopia Serial Murder Case, and he wrote the scenario, drew the art and programmed it by himself. Forty-three years later, in November 2025, he became…
Video game
Hello Games’ space exploration game No Man’s Sky arrives on iPhone and iPad on October 29, 2026 Japan time. The opening stretch is free to play, and unlocking the full game is a one-time 3,000 yen (about US$20, converted at 153 yen to the US dollar). It lands on the App Store with all 10…
Video game
Season 5 of Battlefield 6, the FPS from EA and DICE, went live on October 13, 2026. This one is set in Nevada, and day one brings the new Vegas Strip and Area 51 maps, four new weapons, and Rapid Royale, a new battle royale mode. The Dead Space crossover event runs from October 20…
Game Walkthroughs & Guides
Tengai Makyou II: Manjimaru is a Japanese-flavored RPG released in 1992 for the PC Engine SUPER CD-ROM². It pulled an outrageous 32 points from Famitsu and a reader score of 27.92 in PC Engine FAN, the highest of any game on the system, and it is still talked about as the high-water mark of the…
Steam
A single shoot-’em-up built in Dezaemon Plus is coming home to consoles 30 years later. M2 has announced that a console version of DEVIL BLADE REBOOT, tentatively titled Consumer Edition, is in development. Here’s the bottom line. The reveal came on October 10, 2026, during the streamed event “M2 ShotTriggers 10th Anniversary Mega Thanksgiving Festival…
Video game
The man who made The Portopia Serial Murder Case has built an interrogation game with AI. And he says it took him “only about 30 minutes.” Here’s the bottom line. Yuji Horii, known for Dragon Quest and The Portopia Serial Murder Case, posted on his own X account about making a game with the help…
PlayStation
Nobody had “BlazBlue: Centralfiction gets a new-gen port in 2026” on their card. But that’s exactly what happened: a PS5 version of BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION was announced on the series’ official X account on October 10, 2026. The headlines first. The PS5 version implements rollback netcode, the same as the Steam version, and supports crossplay with…
