Secret Rings is the series first venture on the Nintendo Wii and it plays with a lot of the systems features. Motion Controls, the Wii’s graphical abilities, a vocal-heavy soundtrack, and an impressive storybook style that the series never tried out before.
This release not unlike Sonic Rush, signified a major change for the Sonic series and it is a precursor to the Modern Style we see with Unleashed and Colors latter on.
With Secret Rings celebrating it’s ten year anniversary, I figured it would be fun to revisit this lost book in Sonic’s long history. Lets rock the place and explore the Arabian nights with a blue hedgehog.
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The indie hit Shovel Knight is getting a new expansion coming out very soon. But how soon you may be asking….well, very soon apparently! Yacht Club Games announced on their social media that Specter of Torment is content complete and development is finished. All that is left is the submission process across various platforms and ensuring the game runs well on everything.
We will be covering more on Specter of Torment and everything Shovel Knight as further information releases.

NieR is infamous for not only being an odd little game, but also having a wonderful soundtrack. Many of it’s tracks are iconic to the title and are fondly remembered to this day. With the release of a new update for Final Fantasy XV, a surprise NeiR collaboration is hidden away in the games music. Similar to other music you can listen to when driving across the landscapes, you can play some NeiR music as well now.

Fans will have the chance to grab some NieR music for the car radio and music player including “Song of the Ancients/Fate” and “Weight of the World.”

While this isn’t a massive selection of music from the NeiR series, it’s great seeing the game represented in one of Square Enix’s largest releases. NeiR Automata is releasing soon for the PS4, so stay tuned for further updates on that title.
Source: Nova Crystallis 

Twitter user @Dystify pointed out some files sizes for Nintendo Switch titles that @Pixelpar discovered based on the Japanese versions of various Switch software. They range from not that big like Puyo Puyo Tetris and Snipperclips hitting below 2GB to the highest being Dragon Quest Builders at 32 GB (over the included memory featured in the Nintendo Switch system). 
With high capacity carts that will store retail games, it’s likely best to get Switch software at retail until you manage to get a 100GB+ MicroSD card based on some of these file sizes. But to be fair to the higher memory games, they are either massive in scope (Zelda) or are two games bundled together (DQ Heroes I & II).
Either way, this is interesting news and we will report on file sizes in addition to other Nintendo Switch news at it comes out.

On Steam, there are some cases of developers not being the most friendly and causing issues when being called out. This could grow into huge stories sadly and even lead to lawsuits being started toward critics of games. One such story is happening today (as of this writing), with what seems to be a charming 3D platformer with multiplayer elements becoming a case for stolen asset use.
When extracted from the games files, people discovered Fur-Fun uses Banjo-Kazooie assets (which are owned by Rare and Microsoft).
People called this out and the developer gave a response to the claims.

“So what? These files are not used in the game, and they are illegally extracted from it.” (He apparently implies that the action of extracting files from Fur-Fun to discover this, is illegal)
“Just like all of the tweets I have seen from you, you are wrong. You have no idea and on top of that you believe your own theories”.
“People like you who don’t even check the veracity of their words before writing them don’t even deserve to be answered”
“He hasn’t bought anything. I am the creator of that Kickstarter. You’d better stop tweeting because you have no fucking idea about anything“.

What’s worse is that the game’s creator is censoring critics against this discovery. A Spanish video game site wrote an article about it for example and you can find images of this below.
The interesting things about this story is that using place-holders for game development is very common, but you don’t have them in the finished release. If you are releasing a paid product and don’t get permission to use specific copyright, then it is illegal. Keep in mind that the game could be updated after getting heavy criticism to remove the Banjo Kazooie files, but it’s a major issue that these are in place in the release game.
Hopefully the developer comes out and explains ‘why’ these files were even in the finished product and understands why it’s not right to use files from other games without permission and crediting the source of said files.
Source: NeoGaf