Last year Square Enix released an excellent remake of the previously Japan-only RPG Live A Live. It was only available on the Nintendo Switch, however — but that’s changing very soon. The publisher announced that the remake is heading to PlayStation consoles and Steam starting on April 27th. Check out our review to see why this hidden gem is worth a look.
We all have Zelda on the brain following Nintendo’s lengthy Tears of the Kingdom gameplay presentation. And it got me thinking about this interview from a few years back with the directors of Breath of the Wild, where we talked about the series’ change in direction and the move from the Wii U to the Switch. Perhaps most interesting now is how much they seemed to want to build on the concept — who knew that would turn into meat arrows?
One of the most interesting movies at Sundance this year was The Pod Generation, a sci-fi parable about raising humans inside of high-tech eggs that look like they were designed by Jony Ive. Now those outside the festival circuit can finally check it out, as it’s slated to hit theaters this summer.
‘What the genre needed was less constraints,’ explains Rod Humble.
We knew it was coming, but that doesn’t make it any less sad: yesterday, three years after the 3DS was officially discontinued, Nintendo shut down its digital storefront. It’s the end of an era. Now that the Switch is a runaway success, it’s unlikely the company will return to quirky dual-screen handhelds anytime soon — which is a shame, because they represent a wonderfully weird era of Nintendo history.
