The Olympics were off to a rotten non-start last year thanks to…you know. What's happening this year in the grandest sporting event of them all? Honestly I have no idea, but what I do know is that the digital equivalent of the Tokyo Olympic games just took a turn towards nightmare fuel. Mario is dead, and in his place is a much more terrifying version of Sonic, anthropomorphised to human form and ready to dominate all the competitions.

There’s plenty of grinning in the gaming industry today, as the biggest companies are experiencing what it likes to be millionaires discovering diamonds in their backyards: They’re slightly richer! Electronic Arts has posted its earnings for the financial year ending on March 31, 2021, and the gist of this story is that the company had its best year ever since it was formed in 1982.

Despite it existing in a quantum state of uncertainty thanks to supply issues and the ongoing global semiconductor crisis, it turns out that the PlayStation 5 console is still a wildly successful launch for Sony. Look, I’m as surprised as you are.

Last year’s launch of the PS5 was a perfect example of what happens when constrained supply meets high demand. Between rabid fans and unscrupulous scalpers, you couldn’t find a single next-gen console in stock. So how well did the PS5 sell then once all the buying dust had settled? Sony published the earning results for Q3 FY2020 this morning, and as you’d expect, the answer is very.

To the surprise of nobody, Nintendo just recorded one of its best financial quarters of all time. Thanks to a perfect storm of being told to stay home, a pandemic, and idiots buying up all the toilet paper, the Big N has done what scientists refer to as chufftacular numbers. The earnings results for its Q3 FY3/2021 (October to December 2020 ) pointed out a 37.3% year-on-year increase in revenue, which in money-terms works out to 1,404 billion yen. That’s a lot of yen.

Announced on the weekend, this year’s nominees for best anime include a few obvious heavyweights such as the surprise hit Jujutsu Kaisen, the wonderfully weird Dorohedoro, and furry-magnet Beaststars.

Here they are, the cream of the 2020 crop, the best comic book covers of the year, attached to some of the best comic books of the year!

There are still those who are willing to get up at the crack of dusk and boot up their console to find him for you. People who’ll risk digital life and limb to let you know if Xur is selling a treasure or rubbish. I just so happen to be one of those people. Maybe you’re stuck at work and can only log in later tonight. In that case: Where is Xur?