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Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch Sports Dominates As Kirby Holds Strong

Image: Nintendo The latest Japanese charts are in and thanks to ‘Golden Week’, today’s figures cover two weeks’ worth of sales, from April 25th to May 8th. This means, of course, that’s it’s the debut entry of Nintendo Switch Sports, which storms to the top of the pile with 304,588 units sold. Kirby and the […]

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Alan Wake TV Show In Development at AMC

One of Remedy’s biggest dreams for the Alan Wake franchise was to bring the series to TV. Now, Remedy has announced that AMC has picked up the rights to develop Alan Wake for the small screen. “We were quite a while ago talking about the Alan Wake TV show,” says Remedy creative director Sam Lake […]

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Alan Wake Remastered is coming to Nintendo Switch this fall

Alan Wake Remastered is coming to Nintendo Switch this fall, developer Remedy Entertainment announced Thursday. The game was first released for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC (via the Epic Games Store) last year. The Switch version runs “natively on the hardware,” according to a press email sent to TheVerge, unlike Remedy’s cloud-streamed Switch port of Control. […]

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Google’s new Android Auto interface works with any screen size

Enlarge / The many sizes of Android Auto. Google / Ron Amadeo Android Auto, Google’s car interface app for Android, is getting a new, more flexible design at Google I/O. Android Auto previously demanded a pretty rigid screen aspect ratio. It could not handle things like large, vertically oriented car screens, and would often resort […]

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Pokémon Home Will Add Support for Legends: Arceus, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl Soon

Pokémon Home will add support for Pokémon Legends: Arceus as well as Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl in the coming weeks with update 2.0.0. With the new update, Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will be mutually compatible with Pokémon Sword and Shield, allowing Pokémon to be moved freely between […]

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Dead Space remake gets January release date

In a day filled with news of disappointing but not wholly unexpected postponements, it seems like the dead space remake is coming along nicely enough for the developers to commit to a release date. Today, in a developer livestream, the team at EA’s Motive Studio announced the remake to 2008’s survival horror smash hit will […]

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Nintendo Hypes Splatoon 3 And More As Labor Complaints Continue

picture: Nintendo / MobyGames / Kotaku It’s been nearly a month since a former employee filed a National Labor Relations Board complaint against Nintendo alleging surveillance, coercion, and retaliation. Outside of an initial statement denying the company engaged in union-busting, the house of Mario has remained publicly silent in the face of an increasing number […]

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Alan Wake Remastered Coming To Switch This Fall

picture: Remedy / AMC / Nintendo / Kotaku Today, in honor of the 12-year anniversary of Alan Wake‘s original release This week, Remedy provided some fresh news about the franchise. Included was the announcement that the remastered Alan Wake is coming to Switch this year, as well as some more details about the barely-talked about […]

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Google Updates Android Auto to Fit More Touchscreens

Google heeding Bruce Lee’s advice to be like water. You put Android Auto in a screen, it becomes the screen.gif: Google Google is redesigning Android Auto’s interface to fit all sorts of touchscreens, regardless of their size and shape. Google says the redesign will come in an update this summer, and will increase Android Auto’s […]

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The Pixel 6a won’t use the same fingerprint sensor as the Pixel 6

“Different” may not mean “better,” we’ll have to see While many complained about the performance of the fingerprint sensor in the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro over the last six months, things might be different for the upcoming Pixel 6a. A change doesn’t guarantee that all problems will be solved, but Google has confirmed […]