
3 Free Minigames, 77 Paywalled in Nintendo's Pictonico
Nintendo's new WarioWare-style mobile game Pictonico launches May 28, but its free demo includes just three minigames out of 80. The rest cost $13.98 across two paid volumes.
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Nintendo's new WarioWare-style mobile game Pictonico launches May 28, but its free demo includes just three minigames out of 80. The rest cost $13.98 across two paid volumes.

Microsoft opened a feedback channel expecting constructive suggestions, but fans turned it into a referendum on the multiplatform strategy.

Nintendo's surprise mobile announcement Pictonico has actual pricing now: $5.99 and $7.99 for two volumes totalling 80 minigames. And it works offline.

Xbox launched its Player Voice feedback portal, and the most popular requests from fans tell you exactly where the brand's biggest gaps are.

Hermen Hulst told PlayStation staff in a town hall that narrative single-player games will now stay exclusive to PlayStation consoles. Multiplayer titles like Marathon and Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls will still ship on PC.

Intelligent Systems, the studio behind WarioWare and Fire Emblem, co-developed Nintendo's surprise new mobile game Pictonico, which turns your camera roll into playable minigames.

Pictonico turns your personal photos into playable WarioWare-style minigames, and it's co-developed by Intelligent Systems. It launches May 28 on iOS and Android.

PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst confirmed in a staff town hall that first-party narrative single-player games will no longer come to PC. Multiplayer titles like Helldivers 2 remain multiplatform.

A free Prologue Demo for The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is available now on PS5, Switch 2, Xbox Series, and PC, with save data carrying over to the full game.

Matt Ryan was pitched a pirate TV show by his agent. He ended up becoming one of the most beloved characters in Assassin's Creed history.

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi called an AI-generated FF6 remake video "amazing." SaGa series creator Akitoshi Kawazu wasn't having it.

Tom Kane, the prolific voice actor behind Yoda in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Takeo Masaki in Call of Duty Zombies, has died at 64 after complications from a stroke he suffered in 2020.

Two fan-favourite Marvel heroes join the beat 'em up roster today in a surprise $3.99 DLC drop, and a second content wave is already confirmed for later this year.

Sony is raising PlayStation Plus prices for new subscribers starting May 20, citing 'ongoing market conditions.' The timing is remarkable given Xbox just lowered Game Pass prices last month.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle launched on Switch 2 and absolutely dominated the platform split, with PS5 and Xbox each hovering below 1%. The demand for big third-party ports on Nintendo's new hardware is staggering.

Roughly 24 Rocksteady developers helped build Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and WB Games Montreal pitched in too. That Arkham DNA isn't just inspiration, it's literal.

Forza Horizon 6 pulled in $140 million from early access alone, with over 181,000 concurrent players paying $120 each. The game isn't even officially out yet.

After grossing over $50 million in theaters, Markiplier's horror film Iron Lung is heading to YouTube as a paid exclusive on May 31, bypassing Netflix, Amazon, and every other traditional streaming platform.

Fans digging into Subnautica 2's end-user license agreement found clauses capping damage payouts at $50, banning VPN use, and giving Krafton the right to revoke access at any time.

BeXide and Bandai Namco are turning classic arcade characters into voxels you toss, stack, and merge in a 3D twist on the Suika Game formula. It's launching this summer on Switch 2, Switch, and PC.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book knocked Pokemon Pokopia off the top of the Switch 2 eShop, and the game isn't even out yet.

Virtuos, the studio behind Metal Gear Solid Delta and the Oblivion Remastered port, says its team is eager to bring two of Rockstar's biggest games to Nintendo's hardware.

Ubisoft is gutting Siege's competitive system and replacing hidden MMR with transparent rank progression. It only took a decade.

A Nintendo 64 emulator fork just added rollback netcode across the entire library, and the programmer behind it says GekkoNet "did most of the lifting." Spain-to-Australia Smash 64 at four frames of delay is now a real thing.