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Everyone knows theWii Uwas a colossal failure - one that famously led then-president Satoru Iwata to cut his salary in half to save jobs - but there are a lot of misconceptions aboutwhyit failed. The consensus is that the Wii U was poorly marketed, had a terrible name that made people believe it was an add-on device for the Wii rather than a next-gen console, and lacking in system-selling games. While all of those problems were certainly a factor, the real problem with the Wii U was that the Wii was already the perfect Nintendo console....

WhenStar Wars Outlawslaunched in September, I quickly became a fan. I played for seven hours that first weekend, and was quickly impressed by its approach to building a believably Star Wars-y world withRed Dead Redemption 2-inspired open-world design. But playing that much in a short period of time also gave me a crash course on some of the game’s bizarre design choices. I was a fan, but Icouldn’t stop writing articles about all the things that were wrong with it....

Summary I quite enjoy the musical guests atThe Game Awards. These performances are usually tied to the year’s biggest releases – for example, last year saw Heilung performing a gorgeous song from the then-upcomingSenua’s Saga: Hellblade 2. Sam Lake and The Old Gods of Asgard performed the excellent Herald of Darkness musical number fromAlan Wake 2, complete with choreography. And The Game Awards Orchestra, as usual, performed a wonderful medley of songs from the Game of the Year nominees, as well as a song from also then-upcomingFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthalongside Loren Allred....

This week, the official Metroid website wasupdated with information about Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, sparking speculation that the long-gestating game is finally readying for release. If you’re aMetroid Primefan, the last seven years have been long and difficult.Nintendofirst revealed the game with a title card at Nintendo’s 2017 E3 presentation. Since that announcement, Metroid Prime 4’s development has outlasted E3 and, likely, the console it was supposed to release on. With a Switch 2 reveal set to happenbefore the end of the fiscal year, Metroid Prime 4’s 2025 release window makes it a likely launch game for the Switch successor....

Caves Of Qudisn’t an easy game. In all likelihood, you’ll spend your first several hours (and restarts) just trying to survive the initial quests in the tutorial village of Joppa. Investigating Red Rock and helping Argyve build his device, both while living to tell the tale, are worth a pat on the back, but once you actually manage it, you may find yourself asking, “what now?” Since the world is different with each new game, there’s no perfectly right answer to that question....

Goalkeepers aren’t given enough credit for their importance in football, and they can change the entire course of a match with their crucial saves. While managing a club inEA Sports FC 25’s Career Mode, you will have to ensure that you have a solid shot stopper between the sticks to ensure that your team doesn’t concede too many goals. Numerous options are available, including Gianluigi Donnarumma, Alisson, and more. If you go ahead with a longer rebuild, it would be better to avoid the aging players and instead go for younger options....

Summary If you were hoping to play Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories on a modern consoleas part of theYu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection, then you’ll be out of luck. That’s because it appears that thePlayStation 1classic will not be part of the full lineupwhen the game launches in February of next year. Information about the games included in the upcoming compilation comes by way of a Twitter user, who seemingly managed to source the game early from someone....

Video games often depict villains as menacing figures with evil agendas. But what happens when the antagonist is an ideal rather than a person? Sometimes, the most compelling conflicts arise from facing abstract ideas — grappling with grief, societal constructs, or even our own insecurities. These villains may not have faces, but their impact is no less profound. From the relentless pressure of capitalism to the suffocating weight of self-doubt, these games challenge players to confront universal truth in uniquely personal ways....

There sure are a lot of IP movies coming out in 2025. You might be thinking ‘sure Sophie, but what else is new?’. First of all, it’s Stacey, and secondly, I understand this is not particularly rare. But it is a year when a lot of the major IP movies have a much higher flop factor than normal, and it’s interesting to consider what could happen to blockbuster cinema if too many slump....

Quick Links Sengoku Dynastyis a survival-crafting game set in the feudal Japan era. The game mainly focuses on making your name in the Nata Valley by building special projects, building villages, taking in refugees, and eradicating the evil forces currently occupying the regions. While doing all that, you have to ensure you’re well-fed, and your villagers have enough to eat throughout the year. Eating raw ingredients can get the job done in the early game, but once your population grows, you’ll have to maximize meal production by cooking some delicious food for yourself and your villagers....

Quick Links We’ve got a ton of gingerbread events happening right now inMonopoly Goto celebrate the warmth and spice of the holiday season, but someone’s got to bake all those cookies! That’s where we come in: during the Build & Bake tournament, running between1PM EST on December 24and1PM EST on December 25. If you’re spending part of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day baking some cookies by landing on the Railroad tiles in Monopoly Go, you can expect to earn more than 1,700 free Gingerbread Partners tokens and just under 11,000 free dice rolls from Build & Bake....

Quick Links Monopoly Gois bringing in the new year with a trio of events. That includes the Deal Of The Year event, which is a one-day leaderboard tournament. As the New Year’s Treasures event is also underway, and is one of those archeology events, you’ll need to grab those pickaxes. This is a short one, as the tournament runs from1PM EST on December 31to1PM EST on January 1. Thankfully, 24 hours is all you’ll need to grab some big rewards and fill your packs with pickaxes....

Quick Links Regardless of why we’re playing a scary event in the middle of the joyful holiday season,Monopoly Gois bringing us the Ghost Chase daily leaderboard tournament today to help us progress a bit in the longer spooky spectacle this weekend, the new Haunted Mansion adventure event. Between1PM EST on December 13and1PM EST on December 14, you’ll want to land on as many Railroads as possible to earn points for the Ghost Chase daily leaderboard....