John Friscia

For people who love designing video game levels but don’t have or desire coding knowledge, BQM -BlockQuest Maker- is something you need in your life. BQM takes gameplay mechanics from old Legend of Zelda games…

For the first time in a long time, Capcom is consistently surprising gamers in good ways. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen will come to Nintendo Switch on Apr. 23, according to a new trailer viewable below.…

Games Done Quick is a twice-annual video game speedrunning event streamed through Twitch, and viewers watching the stream donate to a charity that has been selected for the event. The event has snowballed in cultural…

Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa interviewed with Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei about his approach to leading Nintendo. The most surprising insight according to a translation provided by Nintendo Everything is that Nintendo could someday stop producing…

Between its four mobile titles, Nintendo earned $348 million in mobile revenue for the year of 2018. In Q4 in particular, they had a record quarter of almost $117 million in worldwide spending between the…

Back when the Star Wars prequels were in development, some people lived on the fan sites, soaking up every rumor and maybe-spoiler they possibly could. Parsing truth from lies ended up being half the fun.…

Developing a game for a handheld console is a wholly different beast than developing for a home console. Pokémon Company President and CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara has acknowledged as much in an interview with DIME, where…

Rafael Grassetti, Art Director at Sony’s Santa Monica Studio who has worked on the likes of God of War, has gotten into the business of Super Smash Bros. fan art. He has begun a “Smash…

RPG Maker MV is still coming to Nintendo Switch in the West, but it won’t be making its intended February 2019 release date. NIS America is delaying the title. They simply offered that there are…

Lumines Remastered, first released for Switch back in June of 2018, is likely receiving a physical release in the near future. The evidence is that the ESRB has given the title an E10+ rating, which…