#game-canon

#game-canon

EA's Battlefield is reportedly attracting Hollywood's attention, with Christopher McQuarrie set to write, direct, and produce the adaptation, and Michael B. Jordan attached as a producer. The project is being pitched to various studios, aiming for a theatrical release.

Miyamoto confirmed that Peach's family origins revealed in the film are considered canon in the Mario universe, stating, 'Before making this movie, I hadn't decided on the character's backstory, but now that I'm making the movie...'

"Because we don't know what kind of game we'll make next with our characters, having too many character settings would become a constraint. I'm fine with being bound by the gameplay, but I don't want to be bound by having created a story, which has been the reason for not making movies for many years."

The Duskbloods, a vampiric action RPG set in the Victorian Era, is highly anticipated for the Nintendo Switch 2, arriving later this year.

Last year changed the way many of us thought about software. It certainly changed the way I did. I spent much of 2025 building, probing, and questioning how to build software, and in many more ways what I want to do.

The player ambles through an eerily underpopulated subway station, which gradually comes to resemble a metro-themed infinity loop—a maddeningly repetitive circle of mid-transit hell.

PlayStation has announced a new contest called The Playerbase, allowing winners to have their likenesses scanned to appear in PlayStation games, starting with Gran Turismo 7.

Nintendo was founded in 1889, the same year the Eiffel Tower opened in Paris, starting as a manufacturer of Japanese playing cards.

Ditto's appearance as a protagonist of one of the best games of 2026 would likely never have happened had it not been for one episode of the original anime.

Timber Rush is about numbers going up in the crudest way imaginable, a clicker game that barely even features clicking, in which you move your woodcutter side to side as increasing numbers of increasingly silly logs fly around the screen.

I despise companies putting 'From the makers of...' when trying to pitch a new game. People make games, not a company. Like Marathon boasting 'From the makers of Halo and Destiny ...' I doubt anyone who worked on Halo is still there. This is the Ship of Thesis [sic] in another form.