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EA SPORTS FC 24 “Title Update 14” is now available. You can see the patch notes for this update below.

A new update is available now for Fall Guys on the Nintendo Switch. This is the ‘Fall Forever’ update, which includes the brand new ‘Explore’ mode, along with many other changes and additions. See below for the full patch notes.

A free update is now available for Wild Card Football, alongside the paid DLC called ‘Legacy WR Pack’, which costs $9.99, or comes free with the Season Pass. See below for the full patch notes.

An update is available for Mortal Kombat 1. You can find the patch notes for this update below.

The Pokémon GO May 2024 Community Day has been announced, and the focus this time around is on Bounsweet, the Fruit Pokémon! This event takes place Sunday, May 19, 2024, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

As you probably have guessed, during this event Bounsweet will appear more frequently in the wild. If you’re lucky, you might encounter a Shiny one! If you evolve Steenee (Bounsweet’s Evolution) during the event or up to five hours afterward you’ll get a Tsareena that knows the Charged Attack High Jump Kick.

Along with this, for US$1.00 (or the equivalent pricing tier in your local currency), you’ll be able to access the Bounsweet Community Day –exclusive Special Research story. Stay tuned for when tickets for the Special Research story go live.

For more details about this Community Day event’s bonuses, raids, field research, and more, check out Niantic’s blog here.

Nintendo has experienced varying degrees of success over the years, from dominant industry force, to scrappy underdog. Thanks to the popularity of the Switch in recent years, it looks like they’re very much back to being the former. In fact, according to game sales analyst Pierre485 on Twitter, Nintendo’s profits have been greater during the Switch’s lifespan than their total profits made between 1981 and 2016.

Check out a graph illustrating this point below:

Examining the graph, we can see that the previous most profitable era for Nintendo was around 2007 to 2010, which was of course when the Wii was in full swing. Then, there’s a big dip immediately after, stemming from the less than stellar sales of the Wii U. However, since the release of the Switch in 2017, those numbers have been steadily climbing, with a particularly huge spike in 2021.

Considering how successful Nintendo has been over the years, it’s pretty amazing that they’ve managed to achieve a greater level of success than in all those years combined in such a short time. In fact, this still holds true even when accounting for inflation. There’s no doubt that the Switch is a phenomenon, though other factors surely include Nintendo’s foray into mobile games, theme parks, and blockbuster films.

Will Nintendo be able to maintain this level of profit when moving on to their next console? Time will tell!

Nintendo UK has shared a new trailer for Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD titled “A rude awakening”. The two and a half minute long trailer is basically the entire opening cut scene that players will experience when they first start the game. Check it out now to see how far the new version’s graphics have come since the original on 3DS! Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD will be available on Switch on June 27, 2024.

For an even better look at how this Switch revamp compares to the original, you can see a video below that puts today’s trailer side-by-side with footage straight from the 3DS version. You might be surprised with just how much has changed!

It’s time to clean house! Join the faint-of-heart hero Luigi on a spooky quest in Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD for Nintendo Switch.

In this visually enhanced adventure, you’ll visit the chilling locales of the eerie Evershade Valley, a place where until recently, the peculiar Dark Moon hung in the sky. According to ghost researcher Professor E.Gadd, it pacified the ghosts of the valley…that is until one night when the Dark Moon mysteriously shattered! Now, the place is screaming and teeming with troublemaking ghosts! Can Luigi recover the missing pieces of the Dark Moon and restore peace to the valley?

Luckily, Professor E. Gadd has equipped Luigi with the right tools for the job, like the enemy-stunning Strobulb and the trusty Poltergust 5000, which can vacuum up ghosts, objects or interact with the environment. Luigi’s paranormal escapades will take him to all sorts of places, including a former plant research lab, a broken-down clock factory and an icy, snow-covered mine, just to name a few.

Up to four players can team up to take on the challenges of the ScareScraper, a haunted building teeming with ghosts and challenges not found in the main adventure. Recruit your fellow ghost hunters to scale the terrifying tower via local wireless play or online.

First 4 Figure recently opened up pre-orders for their statue of Isabelle from Animal Crossing: New Horizons. That statue won’t be available until later this year, but the company is already promising more Animal Crossing statues in the future.

In a recent Facebook post, First 4 Figures shared an image of their Isabelle statue alongside two mysterious silhouettes. In the post, they wrote, “Here’s Isabelle with the rest of the Animal Crossing crew! We’ve covered ‘em up for now, but we’ll unveil them when the time is right! Can you guess who the others are?”

Of course, any Animal Crossing fan worth their salt can easily tell that the figures in question are Tom Nook and K.K. Slider. Better yet, it looks like the figures’ backdrops go together when all three statues are placed next to each other. We likely won’t see Nook or Slider released until sometime next year, but it’s exciting to know there’s more on the way! Stay tuned as we wait for First 4 Figures to share more details.

The Resident Evil franchise has had a checkered history when it comes to live action film adaptations. Paul W.S. Anderson made seven Resident Evil movies starring Milla Jovovich, which most fans rejected for their lack of loyalty to the source material. More recently, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City rebooted the series with a more traditional take, but it still wasn’t very well received. Now, rumor has it that yet another attempt is in the works.

According to a report at Insider Fandom, Screen Gems has almost finalized a script and will begin production on a new Resident Evil movie soon. Screen Gems is a Sony owned studio, the same production studio that worked on the previous film, Welcome to Raccoon City. Whether or not this new film will be a direct sequel or take things in an entirely new direction remains to be seen.

Encouragingly, the source indicates that Sony is interested in spending more money on this new entry than the previous one, although budget talks are still ongoing. Of course, budget isn’t necessarily an indication of quality, but it could mean they’re taking the production more seriously. After so many Resident Evil movies (and TV shows), it doesn’t seem like we’ll ever stop getting new attempts at adaptations. If this rumor turns out to be legitimate, let’s hope this one is the one that finally satisfies everyone!

Donkey Kong is one of Nintendo’s most popular mascots, and yet, we haven’t had a brand new Donkey Kong platformer since Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze in 2014. One possible reason we haven’t seen any movement on this front, is that there was a Donkey Kong game in the works from developer Vicarious Visions, but it was canceled. However, there’s never been any confirmation on this front one way or the other.

In a new deep dive video from Did You Know Gaming, they examine all the possible angles of this rumored Donkey Kong game. According to at least one source, it was a 3D platformer known as Donkey Kong Freedom, which included Pauline as a playable character. Vicarious Visions was the game’s original developer, but it was eventually given to Nintendo EPD in 2018, and hasn’t been heard of since.

Did You Know Gaming managed to get a hold of multiple Vicarious Visions employees who were able to confirm that a Donkey Kong project of some kind was once in the works with the developer. That said, the details may not be the same as what was reported online. To get the full story, you’ll need to watch the above video, which also includes a section on Activision Blizzard and some of their other cancelled projects.

The next Japanese set for the Pokémon Trading Card Game has been officially revealed. The set will be titled “Night Wanderer”, and will become available on June 7, 2024 in Japan.

The cover of the booster pack art features Pecharunt and the Loyal Three. Pecharunt is a Poison/Ghost Mythical Pokémon that debuted in the Indigo Disk DLC for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. The Loyal Three are a trio made up of Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti, that Pecharunt leads.

It remains to be seen how and when this set will show up on American soil. Click here to see a breakdown and translation of all the cards revealed so far, courtesy of Serebii.

It looks like Loki is coming to Fortnite, along with a bevy of new content from the Loki TV show on Disney+. Thanks to prolific Fortnite leaker iFireMonkey, we’ve got a look at two new Loki themed bundles that should be arriving in the game soon. According to another leaker, Shiina, it could be available sometime between May 17th and May 19th, 2024.

The details could change before the release, but otherwise these leaks are extremely reliable. Below, check out the details and images for both bundles (some items will be available individually as well):

Loki bundle

• Loki, God of Stories: Having found his “glorious purpose” after a long search, Loki now oversees all timelines as the God of Stories.
• TVA Time Stick: Used by the Time Variance Authority to prune variants that threaten timelines.
• Mischief Flip emote
• Miss Minutes: Created by He Who Remains to help run the TVA.

Sylvie Laufeydottir bundle

• Sylvie Laufeydottir: The former goddess of mischief introduced in the Loki series who just wants her own life on the timeline.
• Sylvie’s Crown: A relic of the life Sylvie has left behind.
• Sylvie’s Armor wrap
• Sylvie’s Sword: Sylvie’s Asgardian weapon of choice, used to threaten Loki…several times.

With the potential of a new Nintendo console on the horizon, gamers are hunting down secrets wherever they can find them. The latest batch of goodies comes from dataminer OatmealDome, who discovered some intriguing tidbits by analyzing the newly released Endless Ocean Luminous.

Endless Ocean Luminous was created using Nintendo’s internal game engine known as Bezel. According to OatmealDome, there have been some tweaks made to Bezel that are evident when examining the game’s source code. It seems that the latest version of the engine now allows for games to output at up to 240 frames per second, which is a far cry from the previous max of 60fps on Switch. This change is apparently coupled with the ability to run a game with Variable Refresh Rate, a display technique that lets games with varying frame rates run more smoothly.

Although OatmealDome did find evidence of these changes in the engine’s code, that doesn’t mean any games are currently taking advantage of them. This could be evidence of features coming to a future Switch successor, or it could simply be leftover traces of Nintendo developers playing around. Either way, it’s interesting to get an idea of what might be going on with Nintendo’s tech that we aren’t privy to. Stay tuned to see if anything significant comes of this find.

Play Nintendo host Jordan returns this week for another go at Super Mario Bros. Wonder on the Switch. The Play Nintendo channel is a kid friendly promotional outlet for Nintendo, so younger gamers will likely get a kick out of this. In this 13 minute video, Jordan gets through three levels, plus a Bowser Jr. boss battle. Click here to view Part 1 of this Let’s Play.

Charging Bulrushes, bouncing Hoppos and a battle with the smallest baddie in town?! Yup, sounds like a pretty exciting day with Jordan as she plays Super Mario Bros. Wonder again. Ready to help Jordan take it all on? Let’s Play!

The Beans from Fall Guys are ringing in May the 4th this year with a special upgrade — the announcement of new Star Wars content in-game, featuring four new costumes and other fun themed to Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.

Starting next week, dress your Beans as Han Solo joy-riding on the top of a Millennium Falcon and his faithful co-pilot Chewbacca, heroes of the Rebel Alliance. Or join the Empire with costumes modeled after Boba Fett’s Mandalorian armor and classic stormtrooper gear.

The collaboration also includes some in-game cosmetics, like a Sarlacc Pit escape sequence perfect for devouring your enemies and a Carbon Freezing Chamber element, inspired by Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, that can trap your Beans in Carbonite.

The Fall Guys campaign will be live May 7 through May 20 and you can watch the trailer above! May the Beans be with you.