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Nintendo on Why DLC Is a Good Fit for Switch
Nintendo has been leaning heavily into DLC for Switch games. Since launch, Nintendo has announced a season pass for Breath of the Wild, an expansion pass for Xenoblade Chronicles 2, a host of updates and DLC for Splatoon 2, and more.
Speaking to IGN, Shinya Takahashi, Nintendo’s Entertainment Planning and Development Division general manager, explained why DLC has been a good fit for Switch, which is embracing the digital future.
Nintendo on Why DLC Is a Good Fit for Switch
Nintendo has been leaning heavily into DLC for Switch games. Since launch, Nintendo has announced a season pass for Breath of the Wild, an expansion pass for Xenoblade Chronicles 2, a host of updates and DLC for Splatoon 2, and more.
Speaking to IGN, Shinya Takahashi, Nintendo’s Entertainment Planning and Development Division general manager, explained why DLC has been a good fit for Switch, which is embracing the digital future.
Pentagon Program Studying UFOs Revealed
A once classified Pentagon program studying UFOs has recently been unveiled.
The New York Times reports the $22 million project, titled the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, launched in 2007 after former Senator Harry Reid of Nevada expressed deep interest in the subject. According to the Pentagon, the program shut down in 2012, five years after it started.
Before the program began, Reid spoke to Robert Bigelow about the potential of alien life actually existing. Bigelow is the billionaire founder of an aerospace company and he firmly believes UFOs have indeed visited the United States.
Pentagon Program Studying UFOs Revealed
A once classified Pentagon program studying UFOs has recently been unveiled.
The New York Times reports the $22 million project, titled the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, launched in 2007 after former Senator Harry Reid of Nevada expressed deep interest in the subject. According to the Pentagon, the program shut down in 2012, five years after it started.
Before the program began, Reid spoke to Robert Bigelow about the potential of alien life actually existing. Bigelow is the billionaire founder of an aerospace company and he firmly believes UFOs have indeed visited the United States.
IGN’s Best-Reviewed Games of 2017
Over the course of 2017, IGN reviewed more than 200 games. Of all of those, these are the ones that stuck out the most, earning a score of 9.0 to 10 and winning our Editors' Choice Award. Note that this list isn't an exact copy of our Game of the Year 2017 nominees, and winners weren't decided by the highest score. That's because reviews are the opinion of an individual critic around the time of release, while Game of the Year is decided by IGN's staff as a group near the end of the year. But all of the games below impressed us mightily at the time of review, and are absolutely worth checking out today if you missed them!
IGN’s Best-Reviewed Games of 2017
Over the course of 2017, IGN reviewed more than 200 games. Of all of those, these are the ones that stuck out the most, earning a score of 9.0 to 10 and winning our Editors' Choice Award. Note that this list isn't an exact copy of our Game of the Year 2017 nominees, and winners weren't decided by the highest score. That's because reviews are the opinion of an individual critic around the time of release, while Game of the Year is decided by IGN's staff as a group near the end of the year. But all of the games below impressed us mightily at the time of review, and are absolutely worth checking out today if you missed them!
Nintendo Reportedly Delaying 64GB Switch Game Cards
Nintendo reportedly won't offer 64-gigabyte game cards for Switch until 2019.
The Wall Street Journal says Nintendo originally planned to deliver the bigger Switch game cards to developers in the second half of 2018. But there's apparently been a delay due to technical issues.
The largest Nintendo Switch game card currently is 32 gigabytes. That's considerably smaller storage compared to a Blu-ray, which can hold up to 50 gigabytes of data for a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One game.
Now there have already been data storage issues with Nintendo Switch games. For example, NBA 2K18 on Switch requires an additional microSD card because of the hybrid system's small internal storage of 32 gigabytes. The same is true for LA Noire.
Nintendo Reportedly Delaying 64GB Switch Game Cards
Nintendo reportedly won't offer 64-gigabyte game cards for Switch until 2019.
The Wall Street Journal says Nintendo originally planned to deliver the bigger Switch game cards to developers in the second half of 2018. But there's apparently been a delay due to technical issues.
The largest Nintendo Switch game card currently is 32 gigabytes. That's considerably smaller storage compared to a Blu-ray, which can hold up to 50 gigabytes of data for a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One game.
Now there have already been data storage issues with Nintendo Switch games. For example, NBA 2K18 on Switch requires an additional microSD card because of the hybrid system's small internal storage of 32 gigabytes. The same is true for LA Noire.
Zelda Director: Speedruns, Shrine Skips ‘All According to Plan’
Players have pulled off a lot of incredible stunts in Breath of the Wild, from completing the entire game in just a few hours to finding ways to beat long shrines with quick, easy physics skips.
After working on such a gigantic, meticulously-designed game, we asked series producer Eiji Aonuma and game director Hidemaro Fujibayashi how they feel seeing people find shortcuts and alternate solutions.
“That was definitely one of our goals. That's totally all according to plan,” Fujibayashi told IGN. “A big theme of this game was that there should be multiple answers, multiple methods, multiple ways of doing anything. All the dungeons, we wanted to make it so that the players would be able to solve problems in any way they wanted to without us even being able to know what they would do to solve it."