Donkey Kong Country Will Join Universal Studios Japan In Spring 2024

Nintendo has been doing its best to expand its brand beyond “just doing video games” by putting its IPs into the public viewing space in different ways. We know about their success in movies and such via Mario’s animated film, but another big success for them was Super Nintendo World. The park had a rocky start thanks to the pandemic happening right when they were supposed to open, but they bounced back well and have had a great turnout. Plus, they expanded the park into the United States and will be opening a third park location there, too. But, like with everything Nintendo does, expansion was inevitable.

Publisher eastasiasoft and developers Softstar Entertainment and DOMO Studio have delayed the Switch version of action RPG Xuan-Yuan Sword VII from its previously planned 2023 release window to spring 2024, the companies announced.

Blumhouse and Universal are reportedly cooking up plans for another swift slice of Five Nights at Freddy’s action soon as Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is set to begin filming in the Spring for a Halloween 2024 release.

Within the updated World of Warcraft development roadmap for 2024, Blizzard has revealed that The War Within Alpha testing will begin sometime around this coming spring, with Beta following in the summer! Although there are no specific dates, spring officially begins on March 19th, giving us a rough timeframe to expect the testing phase. Likewise, summer begins on June 20th, a three month window between testing periods, also coinciding with Dragonflight Season 4 and The War Within Pre-Patch.

The World of Warcraft 2024 roadmap has been announced, and with it, Dragonflight Season 4 has been announced to release sometime in Spring 2024! Like in Shadowlands Season 4, looks like Dragonflight Season 4 will be similar to the Shadowlands season, with a revisit of all 3 Dragonflight raids as well as updated outdoor content, rewards and even twists! We currently do not have more information to share, but we're excited for the new season! In modern World of Warcraft, you’re going to see three more content updates for Dragonflight arriving before World of Warcraft: The War Within releases next year. In these updates, we’ll be wrapping up the story for this expansion and laying the foundation for our next one.

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Falcom has announced the next title in its long-running Kiseki series – The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki – Farewell, O Zemuria. It launches in 2024 for Japan, though the platforms have yet to be announced. Though it seems to be a follow-up to The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki, the focus is on an orbal rocket’s launch to investigate the ends of the continent.

Publisher XSEED Games and developer GalaxyTrail have delayed the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch versions of high-speed platformer Freedom Planet 2 from their previously planned 2023 release window to spring 2024.

Square Enix has released Final Fantasy 16’s first story DLC and revealed a second expansion that’s coming to the PS5 game next year.

Final Fantasy 16 is getting two story DLC content packs, and the first one, titled Echoes of the Fallen, is out right now.

Square Enix confirmed earlier this year that it was working on two paid expansions for Final Fantasy 16, and at The Game Awards, we got a full reveal for both- and even a surprise release for one of them.

Skull And Bones was initially meant to launch in the autumn of 2018, but it's been delayed and delayed, rebooted and delayed some more. Its most recent slip was from November of this year into 2024, but Ubisoft have now put a new specific date on their multiplayer pirate 'em up: February 16th, 2024.