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The First Nintendo Direct Of The Switch 2 Era Is Here
30.7.2025
A long rumored Nintendo Direct is taking place this month after all. The Mario maker announced a partner showcase will take place on July 31, marking the first new Nintendo Direct since the Switch 2 launched in early June. Read more
Here's What May Power The Steam Deck's Successor, But Do We Need One?
23.7.2025
This past February the Steam Deck celebrated its third birthday. And based on the rocky performance of some fairly recent AAA games on Valve’s popular handheld, Avowed and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth being two examples, it’s currently going through a bit of a terrible threes kinda situation....
New PS5 Feature Will Limit Performance In Some Games To Save Power
23.7.2025
Sony has announced that a new beta firmware update for the PlayStation 5 will begin rolling out to select users starting this week. One noteworthy aspect of this update is that it will include a feature that lets you cut back on your PS5's power consumption while playing games, though doing so will...
Nintendo Is Launching A Second Secret Switch Online Playtest, And We All Have To Pretend We Don't Know What It's For
18.7.2025
Nintendo has announced a second round of its super-top-secret Playtest Program “related to a service for Nintendo Switch Online.” This time there’s room for four times as many applicants, a total of 40,000, for the playtest taking place from July 28 to August 10. If it’s anything like last year...
Square Enix To Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Switch Players Who Want To Upgrade To Switch 2: Buy The Whole Game Again
15.7.2025
The times of transition between two console generations are often fraught, with publishers trying to sell to two ever-shifting markets, with their expectations of forward or backward compatibility, and the perceived inherent unfairness of needing to buy the same game twice. Square Enix has taken...
The Impossible-To-Find 30th Anniversary PS5 Controller Is Coming Back For A Limited Time
14.7.2025
Sony celebrated the 30th anniversary of PlayStation with PS1-style special edition consoles and accessories that looked great and almost nobody could get. Everything sold out almost immediately, leaving some fans wondering why the company was depriving itself of the opportunity to sell stuff to...
Major Nintendo Switch Piracy Website Seized By FBI
10.7.2025
One of the biggest Nintendo Switch piracy sites around has been taken down by the FBI as “part of a law enforcement operation” on Thursday. Nw2u was one of the better known repositories for Switch ROMs online, allowing people to play games on hacked Switches or emulators on PC without legally...
Stalker 2 Hitting PlayStation, With PS5 Pro Update In The Works And Hopefully Fewer Bugs
9.7.2025
Stalker 2 originally launched last November just in time for long-standing post-apocalyptic survival sickos to feast on its eerie, emergent sandbox, and for most other people to bounce off its buggy gameplay in favor of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle or their massive backlogs. It’s getting...
I Played The Horse Girl Gacha Game That's Taking The Internet By Storm, And I Get It
8.7.2025
If, like me, you’ve noticed an uptick in anime girls with horse ears running around your social media timeline, you might be confused as to what the hell is going on. The game causing all this commotion, my friends, is Umamusume: Pretty Derby, a gacha game that has finally made its way to the West...
The Nintendo Switch 2 Is Finally Available On Amazon, But There's A Catch
8.7.2025
A month after launch and over two months after it first became available for preorder, the Nintendo Switch 2 is finally being sold on Amazon in the United States. It appears that Amazon and Nintendo have squashed any reported squabbles, though you can’t quite just go to an Amazon store page...
Romero Games Says It’s Not Dead, But Looking For A New Publisher After Xbox Layoffs
7.7.2025
Romero Games, the studio led by Doom designer John Romero, had been reported as one of the casualties of Xbox’s devastating layoffs last week. This was based on a statement from the studio itself, which announced that the publisher lined up for its next project had pulled funding. However, if...
Xbox Failed At The Most Important Part: Games
7.7.2025
“Xbox launching without exclusives is so crazy, it just might work,” read one headline from November 2020. It did not. While the PlayStation 5 rang in the holiday that year with Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the Demon’s Souls remake, the Xbox Series X/S was huddled up alongside next-gen upgrades...
Original Switch Getting Mysterious 'Price Change' In Canada 8-Years After Launch As Gaming Gets More Expensive
30.6.2025
The Switch launched in 2017 for $300. It’s now 2025 and it’s still $300. Will it finally get a price cut like every other Nintendo console has had at some point in its lifecycle or will the Mario maker take the unprecedented step of actually making it more expensive, even after the Switch 2 is out?...
Everything's An Xbox Including This Meta Quest 3S That Costs $100 More And Can't Play Your Xbox Games
24.6.2025
The limited edition Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition (yes, that’s what it’s called) looks neat. I’ll give it that. The all-black model with the green inlays cuts a nice contrast with the normally white-only VR headsets. Everything else about it confuses me, including why it exists. Read more
Beware: That Pre-Owned Switch 2 You're Thinking About Buying Might Already Be Bricked
23.6.2025
Nintendo has become increasingly draconian in its efforts to prevent piracy, most recently adding words to its EULA that claim it has the right to brick your console if it doesn’t like what you use it for. And following the release of the Switch 2, the Japanese company isn’t holding back: many...
Marathon Gets Delayed, Donkey Kong Bananza Gets A Smashing Showing, And More Top Stories
21.6.2025
This week, Donkey Kong Bananza knocked our collective socks off in a very strong Nintendo Direct dedicated to the Switch 2's next big exclusive, and Marathon, the next big game from Destiny maker Bungie, was delayed in the wake of an alpha earlier this year that left many players underwhelmed....
Just How Long Is Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour?
20.6.2025
Nintendo has a history of packing in tutorial games with some of their hardware, so players were reasonably frustrated to find that Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour would run them $10. But while this tutorial-focused title should’ve probably just been included with the Nintendo Switch 2, it may still...
Over 2,500 Nintendo Switch 2 Consoles Were Stolen From A Semi-Truck
18.6.2025
Earlier this month, nearly 3,000 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles, with a total value of over 1 million dollars, were stolen out of a semi-truck in Colorado. The thief or thieves responsible have yet to be apprehended. Read more
Give Your Switch 2 Friend Code To Someone Who Doesn't Deserve It? You Can Change It
18.6.2025
If you want to add friends on a Nintendo Switch 2, one of you will need to share your friend code with the other. This makes friend codes an extremely important part of the console’s social elements and not something to be shared with just anyone. As such, if your friend code is compromised in some...
Microsoft Teases Multiple Gaming Devices And Next-Gen Xbox As It Doubles Down On Windows
17.6.2025
What is an Xbox? The answer to that has never been more confusing, but a new promo video from Microsoft teasing the future of its next-gen gaming hardware lineup gives an important clue: Windows. The company said it wants the OS to be the number one platform for gaming as it doubles down on a...