If any of you remember the console game "Dead Block", the developers have banded back together to further develop and release a successor in "Dead Party". All previous posts in here regarding this game are archived so I can't reply now but I haven't seen the devs post about it anywhere.

Currently there is a demo available, will be playing with friends later tonight

Dedicated this Iuno illustration (my very first Wuthering Waves fan art) to a good friend of mine that got me into the game!

I finished Act 3 just few days ago and have to say that overall it was probably the best metroidvania which I ever played. Huge and brilliantly designed map, diversified biomes, challenging but also satisfying boss fights, fantastic and perfectly suited soundtrack. Hype surrounding this production was incredible, but IMO it lived up to expectations and landed on my TOP15 games of all time list.

So this is a thing... saw this and had a laugh such a blatant ripoff

20 years... the fact that Onimusha went from a PS2 era franchise to like wait, that was two decades ago? At least we're getting another one now. Thanks Capcom :)

I remembered this mildly interesting tidbit about Metal Gear Solid 4 on the PS3: it internally ran a PS1 emulator for the "flashback sequence" when you briefly play a snippet from the first MGS game. I was curious if they would do the same thing with the recent PC port, and sure enough, when the flashback begins, a second window opens and Task Manager shows a separate process running for "METAL GEAR."

I just thought that was interesting and wanted to share.

(art by me)

Square Enix has issued a statement denying it is exploring taking the company private after a report in Japanese business magazine Sentaku claimed the publisher had drawn interest from foreign investment funds.

"The September issue of the monthly magazine Sentaku carried a report regarding the possibility of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. (the 'Company') going private," the company wrote in a succinct statement. "However, this information was not announced by the Company.

"No consideration is currently being given within the Company to taking the Company private."

Activist investor 3D Investment Partners, which holds roughly 18.5 percent of Square Enix's shares, allegedly sparked this speculation. It has previously pushed the company's board to reassess its strategy.

It's always those parasites when it comes to pushing phoney square enix stuff that the media latches onto and spreads around. The ones who published that insane report which among many false claims said their games were low quality and their references were cherry picked metacritic user reviews for games like ff16 and dragon quest (which have high overall scores).

So a few days ago I made a thread talking about the studios Nintendo own: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1w21iyt/a_list_of_all_15_nintendo_owned_studios/

Today, I'm going to talk about Nintendo itself and their internal development teams. Pretty much every big japanese company has their own internal development divisions (outside of external studios owned by them) and Nintendo is no different.

Historically, Nintendo has had multiple divisions since the 70s which over time were merged until 2004 when Nintendo EAD (Entertainment Analysis and Development, since 1989) and Nintendo SPD (Software Planning and Development, since 2004) remained as the sole survivors. Nintendo EAD was headed by Miyamoto and focused on 2D Mario, 3D Mario, Pikmin, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Wii series, Splatoon, etc while Nintendo SPD was headed initially by iwata and later on by Shinya Takahashi and focused on developing warioware, metroid, tomodachi and rhythm heaven while another side of it focused on producing and overseeing games developed outside of Nintendo.

In 2015 during Kimishima first year, Nintendo EAD and NIntendo SPD merged to become Nintendo EPD (Entertainment Planning and Development). Nintendo EPD then assumed the roles of both EAD and SPD, now under just one single division instead of two.

Under this new division, now Miyamoto retired from his role as General Manager after decades and Shinya Takahashi who was General Manager of Nintendo SPD became the General Manager of Nintendo EPD, a position he has for 10 years (now executive general manager)

In Nintendo EPD, it is then divided into 10 known groups called Production Groups, all of them with a manager who manages their groups while the managers of all groups are overseen by Takahashi

Co-Production Group: Before 2023 it was called Production group Number 1 and number 2 with both merging to become one. This group doesnt develop games, although theyre still devs, they instead oversee and produce games not developed internally be it contracted by Nintendo or done by their subsidiaries and published by Nintendo. 95% of external developed games have producers and staff from them involved.

Production group no 6: like co-production group, it focus on overseeing and producing. It focus on the 5% which recently for them just means Paper Mario, Warioware Metroid Prime and Next Level Games titles, which are all either nintendo subsidiaries or contracted studios. It wasn't merged so far but I expect it to be over time to co-production group

Now going into the development focused groups, with only new games mentioned, not remasters:

Production Group number 3: Develop 3D Zelda, co-develop 2D Zelda, license and supervise Hyrule Warriors, remasters/remakes, and other spin-offs.

Works on Switch: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, Echoes of Wisdom (w/grezzo)

Production Group number 4: Develop quirky, casual and experimental IP, generally not focusing on one IP but creating new IP and projects. Its manager is Kouichi Kawamoto, the General director of switch, producer of switch 2 and previously a director and mostly a producer on all the games of epd4.

Works on Switch: 1-2-Switch, Nintendo Labo, Ring Fit Adventure, Brain Training for Nintendo Switch, Game Builder Garage, Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain, Nintendo Switch Sports, Everybody 1-2-Switch, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, Rhythm Heaven Groove

Works on Switch 2: Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, Nintendo Switch Sports Resort

Production Group Number 5: Develop Splatoon and Animal Crossing. Since 2019 its manager is Aya Kyogoku, the director of animal crossing new leaf and new horizons

Works on Switch: Splatoon 2, Animal Crossing New Horizons, Splatoon 3

Works on Switch 2: Drag x Drive, Splatoon Raiders

Production Group number 7: Co-develop Metroid and Famicom Detective club, responsible for planning, composition, direction, concept and production while usually needing an external developer to co-develop. Originally developed Rhythm Heaven and Tomodachi Life prior to the epd merger but seemingly in the last years part of the group or everyone merged with EPD4 after those two titles released and the staff was there so we dont know if the group still exist. But they existed in the switch era so im mentioning them

Works on Switch: Metroid Dread (w MercurySteam), Famicom Detective Club Remakes (w Mages), Emio (w Mages)

Production Group number 8, aka Nintendo EPD Tokyo: The only EPD outside of Kyoto, they develop 3d Mario and 3d DK.

Works on Switch: Super Mario Odyssey, Bowser's Fury

Works on Switch 2: Donkey Kong Bananza

Production Group number 9: Develop Mario Kart and Arms

Works on Switch: Arms

Works on Switch 2: Mario Kart World

Production Group number 10: Develop 2D Mario and Pikmin

Works on Switch: Super Mario Maker 2, Super Mario Bros Wonder, Pikmin 4

Anyway thats it, I used my own knowledge and what i had in mind for this. Of course, this is just what comes out of EPD, nintendo releases come from them, nintendo own external studios and contracted studios, that's all part of the nintendo ecosystem but this here is nintendo itself. Hope you guys learned a lot if you didnt know much which is ofc very abreviated.

Hey everyone, GTA 5 enhanced was released on PC last year but it had a lot of bugs. Is the situation any better now or should I re-play the legacy version with mods?

mine was Gris

I was just wondering, considering how eagerly everyone seemed to be anticipating it,

It feels like the buzz died down within a few weeks of its release and it’s kind of faded into the background. Was it just nostalgia crowd that got excited about it?

I mean, for a producer who made *Super Smash Bros.*, it felt like a pretty ordinary game.

"We had talked, and I thought, 'God, what a great legacy to leave for my grandson.' So I started working out. I got bigger. Then, just the reality of it... because I did read! I did read for it. It was so hard for me to memorize my lines, which I never had a problem with. And that was my mind and body starting to tell me, 'You don't want to do this.' I was one of the leads of Stargate at 33 to 44 and then stopped. Now, at 62, to be the lead, I just have no desire to live that way again."

He also spoke on Dave Bautista as the live-action Kratos:

"With Ryan, I thought that was absolutely the right choice. He's played all the games. He's a gamer and new father; like, who better? Then when he got hurt, it was like, are they going to take time to read with and call people back? So when I heard the name of Bautista, I thought, 'Didn't he just lose like 100 pounds?' So I hope he's going to be great. I think he's going to be great. I just hope it doesn't cause any health issues to put back on all that weight."

Over the weekend a friend of mine delivered this vintage SNES Superbrite sign to me. This is the same SNES Superbrite i owned years ago. I had sold to my friend in 2019 & it feels so good to finally have purchased it back. Couldn't be happier & wanted to share. Hope you enjoy!