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Welcome to The Beat’s 2022 Holiday Gift Guide! Are you looking for the perfect gift for everyone on your list? Here at Stately Beat Manor, we’ve been making a list with some of the most enticing items you could imagine unwrapping this holiday season. Naturally, an exhaustive list is impossible, so be sure and share

Yesterday, Nintendo debuted the 2nd trailer for the Super Mario Bros. movie during a special Movie Direct, showing off a lot more of the Mushroom Kingdom and the Mario cast.  It features the first look at Illumination Studio’s take on Donkey Kong (voiced by Seth Rogan), Princess Peach (voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy), and Luigi (voiced by

Electronic Arts and Marvel have forged a deal for three games, Bloomberg reports. Details have only been released for the first game – which will be based on Iron Man, and has been in the works for a while from Motive Studio,  EA”s Montreal based arm. The first game EA is making is based on Iron

2017 was an outstanding year of gaming for Nintendo fans. The launch year of the Switch saw the release of some of the most beloved titles on the platform to this day, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Splatoon 2, and Super Mario Odyssey. Another game that belongs

Konami has been largely absent from video games in recent years, focusing on pachinkos over interactive entertainment. But the pachinko industry was rocked by COVID-19, which led to the closure of hundreds of pachinko parlors in Japan, so Konami is now making games its primary focus. The company owns some of video game’s most memorable

https://madcavestudios.com/ In a special Nintendo Direct livestreamed at New York Comic Con and around the world, Nintendo and Illumination debuted the first trailer (and confirmed the title) for the Super Mario Bros Movie, set to debut in theaters April 7, 2023. The Super Mario Bros. Movie Nintendo Direct: [embedded content] Here is the trailer: [embedded

https://madcavestudios.com/ “Launch trailers” are coming earlier and earlier. Gotham Knights, the action-adventure title developed by WB Games Montreal starring four of Batman’s former sidekicks, isn’t releasing for another two weeks, but Warner Bros. just released the game’s Official Gameplay Launch Trailer. To be fair, it’s possibly Gotham Knights‘ best trailer to date, bearing a cinematic

https://madcavestudios.com/ The Pokémon Company today dropped a new 14-minute dedicated gameplay trailer, entitled Jump into a Paldean Journey, showcasing a plethora of new features to look forward to in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet (launching November 18, 2022). [embedded content] The new video is the longest trailer yet – almost as long as the 19-minute

https://madcavestudios.com/ EGX 2022 returned to London’s Excel Centre for the show’s second post-pandemic year. The event is one of the UK’s premier videogame conferences where indies, major players, retro enthusiasts and more gather to celebrate gaming culture. Having last visited EGX pre-pandemic (2020 was shut down like much of the conference industry) EGX 2022 was a

Earlier this week LightBox Expo announced its in-person return to Pasadena, California for the first time since 2019. The art-focused convention boasts a lineup of over 500 guests, including a vast array of artists, animators, directors, as well as a schedule of over 150 panels spread across the three days of the show. Today The

We’re thrilled to share that an all-new single-player, third-person, action-adventure Iron Man video game is now in early development at Montreal-based Motive Studio. The team is being led by Olivier Proulx, who brings experience working on past Marvel titles like Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, and is joined by a dedicated team of passionate industry

The recent launch of Splatoon 3 cemented the series’ status as Nintendo‘s biggest new IP in decades. When the series debuted on the Wii U in 2015, Splatoon instantly gained attention for its spin on the shooter genre. In the game, players wield diverse weapons, from guns to brushes to buckets of paint, and battle

Fans have been clamouring for a full Nintendo Direct all summer. The last full direct was all the way back in February 2022 – but it has finally come at last. Overall it was a very mixed bag – with plenty for RPG fans but sadly no mention of the rumoured Metroid Prime remake nor

Sony PlayStation‘s pre-Tokyo Game Show September 2022 State of Play event was announced at short notice yesterday and had to compete with an avalanche of game announcements from the Nintendo Direct showcase earlier today. Did it make the grade? No. But it did have some reveals, some new trailers, plus extra info about the PlayStation

Ubisoft announced no less than 4 new Assassin’s Creed projects at Saturday’s Ubisoft Forward event. The video game publisher only hinted at Assassin’s Creed Infinity, its long-promised, even longer-rumored live service expected to tie together all future games in the series. But Ubisoft used its presentation to announce 3 new single-player titles and a mobile game

Today, the Mouse held the first-ever Marvel & Disney Games Showcase, and it was packed with announcements, including the reveal of many new projects and updates on previously-announced titles. Everything from the Marvel Universe to Mickey Mouse to TRON was represented across the 23-minute video presentation. Unfortunately, most of the projects either didn’t seem particularly exciting or too

Nintendo announced a new special edition Switch OLED and the Pokémon Company show new footage in two simultaneous trailer drops today as the November 18 release of the next mainline instalments in the mammoth franchise – Scarlet & Violet – draw closer. [embedded content] The newly revealed Nintendo Switch OLED: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Edition

Over 40 trailers, teases, updates, a Pokémon concept car, and a Hideo Kojima podcast announcement were featured at the Gamescom 2022 Opening Night Live event hosted by Geoff Keighley. Most of the 2-hour runtime was updates on already announced titles, but there were a number of surprises sprinkled in througout the show. Here are the