Switch Sales Pass 22 Million, Zelda: Breath of the Wild Hits 10 Million Copies Sold

The Nintendo Switch continues to be a sales success, with Nintendo’s latest financial report placing the console at nearly 23 million units sold since its launch last year.

In a new earnings report, Nintendo revealed that over the last six months the Switch has managed to sell more than 5 million units, with a slight increase in sales compared to this time last year.

The new numbers now mean the Switch has almost doubled sales of the Wii U, and has overtaken GameCube’s total figure.

During this time, Mario Tennis Aces managed to sell more than 2 million copies, while Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze sold more than 1.5 million.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 Sells Through $725 Million In Its First Weekend

Red Dead Redemption 2 had the largest opening weekend for any entertainment product in history, managing to sell through $725 million in copies over just three days.

It’s actually the second-highest grossing entertainment launch, although Rockstar won’t be too unhappy with that, given that the record-holder is Grand Theft Auto V.

The discrepancy between biggest opening weekend and biggest overall launch comes down to the fact that the last GTA was released on a Tuesday.

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PAX Aus 2018 Cosplay: Bowsette, Overwatch, And More!

The best part of any geek or pop culture convention is the amazing cosplay efforts of its talented attendees, and PAX Aus 2018 was no exception. In this gallery, you’ll find a small collection of the best costumes we were lucky enough to stumble across and capture.

Blizzard costumes continue to be ever-impressive and popular, with plenty of Diablo and Overwatch alternate costumes being represented. There were also a number of people turning out to represent Bowsette, the fan-favourite fictional Nintendo character, as well as Connor from Detroit: Become Human–we saw way more than we were able to photograph! And as always, Square Enix and Nintendo costumes continued to be crowd-pleasing staples.

Our personal favorites were the Kakariko Crew (pictured), who turned up to raise awareness of the campaign to include Waluigi in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, as well as a couple of great Hollow Knight cosplayers you’ll see later on.

Let us know what your favourite costumes of PAX Aus are in the comments below.

For more on PAX Aus, be sure to check out GameSpot’s PAX Aus hub.

Liz and the Blue Bird Review

Two years ago, director Naoko Yamada released the emotionally powerful and beautiful movie, A Silent Voice, based off the critically acclaimed manga by Yoshitoki Oima. With A Silent Voice, Yamada deftly combined both the one-shot that led to the series, as well as the series itself, while also imbuing her own artistry and style. The result was a two and a half hour movie that explored the difficulty of communication and empathy in the messy and fraught time of adolescence.

I talk about A Silent Voice, because in many ways, Liz and the Blue Bird is similar. It’s also gorgeously animated by the talented studio, Kyoto Animation; it features many of Yamada’s signature directorial traits, like a focus on body expression over facial expression to display how a character really feels; it even has the same composer, Kensuke Ushio, who uses minimalist music to add flavor to quiet and yet intimate scenes. On paper, A Silent Voice and Liz and the Blue Bird mirror. But visually, and in terms of experience, you will find them drastically different.

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Incredibles Director Reveals the One Superpower They Almost Had

Every member of the Parr family has a distinctive ability tied specifically to their personality and role within the family, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t go through changes in pre-production.

In a recent conversation with IGN, Incredibles and Incredibles 2 director Brad Bird revealed that, at one point, everyone in the family except Bob had the ability to fly.

“Originally, in the early version of the Incredibles, all of

could fly except Bob,” he said, explaining that the gimmick was “it was always a hassle for them to do everything, because Bob couldn’t fly.”

As you can watch in the above interview, Bird and Incredibles 2 producer John Walker went on to describe a drawing made by Pixar artist Teddy Newton, in which the family was flying while Bob was beneath them driving a station wagon.

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