Pokémon Red/Blue – by John Michonski
Their frustrations are often built on the backs of nostalgia, an aching for a bygone era when they first saw Nidorino and Gengar do battle on their Game Boy. That yearning for a youth long gone is what inspired Satoshi Tajiri, Pokémon’s originator, to come up with the idea. According to the oft-repeated legend, Tajiri…
Feature: Switch 2, Year One – How Closely Did Nintendo Follow Its Own Playbook?
Super Mario Spreadsheet Revisited. Exactly two years ago, I made a bold prediction of every first-party Switch 2 release over the first five years of its lifespan. My forecast wasn’t based on leaked insider information or baseless speculation. Instead, I crunched the numbers (check out the full breakdown here) to find trends and repeated behaviours…
Call of Duty’s new DMZ extraction mode is a ‘full-featured game within Modern Warfare 4’
“We actually made a proper DMZ this time,” said Modern Warfare 4 multiplayer creative director Geoff Smith to a room of press in May. Last month I visited Infinity Ward to play Modern Warfare 4, the first Call of Duty in four years made by the studio that started it all. I had a fun…
I thought text-only Grand Theft Auto roleplay sounded too intimidating—but GTA World is showing me why players are slowing things down
Someone has overdosed, so said the panicked man running down the street towards the infirmary. I follow, pushing through the red swing doors into the hospital reception area, and find a family huddled together in the adjacent waiting room. What happened, I ask. And I’m politely, but no less promptly, told to mind my own…
Star Citizen’s latest alpha patch adds 385 asteroid defence missions, but players are reporting problems with broken hangar doors and exploding pilots
Amid all the chatter about when Star Citizen will launch and how much money it has raised in player funding, what you can actually do in Cloud Imperium Games’ space MMO often gets lost. Star Citizen may not be finished, but it is playable in an alpha that gets updated relatively regularly. Only last month,…
2026’s weirdest tech leak involves scuba diving, a Caribbean island, and Gearbox head honcho Randy Pitchford, and no, it’s not what you expect
Games and tech products can leak in all manner of strange ways. But the curious case of the Pixel Watch 5 is by far the weirdest I’ve heard about. The accidental unveiling of what appears to be Google’s next smartwatch involves scuba diving, Caribbean idylls, and Gearbox CEO/walking headline generator Randy Pitchford. For once, Pitchford…
‘Reinventing the PC’ is the concept Nvidia wanted to get across this Computex, but I’m not sure the AI room is being read
Andy Edser, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been: Covering all the biggest Computex 2026 releases in our liveblog. Also listening to far too much metal on the Audeze Maxwell 2 while I write. Mmm, planar magnetic drivers. One concept was continually repeated by Nvidia at Computex 2026, and it’s this idea of…
007 First Light “Year One” Roadmap Revealed, Reconfirms Switch 2 Release Window
And IOI shares another sales update. 007 First Light is already available on other platforms and IO Interactive has this week provided an update about the game’s sales and also shared its “first year content” plans. Firstly, this roadmap reconfirms James Bond’s new mission is still on target for a “Summer 2026” release on Switch…
Resident Evil Veronica: Watch the Announcement Trailer
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Hitman: Absolution Switch 2 Upgrade Pack Confirmed For This Summer
Contracts mode is also arriving “very soon”. After announcing Hitman: Absolution would be coming to the Switch 2, Feral Interactive has now narrowed down the release date of this native upgrade pack to “summer” 2026. The development team has also mentioned how the previously announced Contracts mode for the Switch version will apparently be coming…
