Multiple Switch Games Receive Switch 2 Compatibility Fixes
Following a major firmware update. The Switch 2 is now more than a year old and during this time Nintendo as continued to roll out firmware and compatibility updates. Following a major system update earlier this month, adding support for VRR in docked mode, a new list of Switch titles have reportedly received backward compatibility…
Stellar Blade Gets A Switch 2 eShop Demo Today
New Bayonetta collab trailer also released. If you’ve been eager to get your hands on the Switch 2 version of Stellar Blade, a demo is now available to download on the eShop. Along with this, Shift Up has also published a new trailer, showing off the recently announced Bayonetta collaboration. This will be free when…
Over 10 years later, Gabe Newell’s advice to devs still holds up
In 2013, Valve head honcho Gabe Newell spoke to students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin about “Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions & The Future of Corporations.” It was a much more interesting topic than that makes it sounds, and has been doing the rounds again thanks to being sliced up into shorts…
Evidence of canceled Grand Theft Auto 5 Liberty City and ‘Agent Trevor’ DLC, plus early version of GTA6’s map surface online
As reported by IGN, a trove of data from Rockstar has made its way online, with the big ticket items being Grand Theft Auto 5’s source code, remnants of canceled GTA5 singleplayer DLC, as well as an early version of GTA6’s map that can be loaded into the prior game. It’s unclear how or why…
Evidence of canceled Grand Theft Auto 5 Liberty City and ‘Agent Trevor’ DLC, plus early version of GTA6’s map surface online
As reported by IGN, a trove of data from Rockstar has made its way online, with the big ticket items being Grand Theft Auto 5’s source code, remnants of canceled GTA5 singleplayer DLC, as well as an early version of GTA6’s map that can be loaded into the prior game. It’s unclear how or why…
An ambitious fanmade expansion for Baldur’s Gate 3 is out after almost two years in development
Baldur’s Gate 3 is pretty great right out of the box, but it could be argued that its second act lacks some variety. If you aren’t endlessly dazzled by shadowy forests and J.K. Simmons, you might have wished you could hang out after the family drama in the Shadow-Cursed Lands is sorted and explore some…
Japanese devs aren’t facing the same layoff crisis because their executives are paid an order of magnitude less, ‘they didn’t get swept up in the live-service trend,’ and their teams are smaller, says industry expert
In an interview first published in Edge Magazine issue 428 and shared online via its Knowledge newsletter, former Tencent Games business development director and inaugural Game Awards Game Changer Amir Satvat offered his take on why the now-yearslong games industry layoff crisis has been so uneven in its geographic distribution. There’s been a lot of…
“We Don’t Take This Decision Lightly” – Polymega’s Prices Are Going Up Thanks To The RAMpocalypse
Base unit, Remix, Element Modules and controllers all increase in cost. The ongoing RAMpocalypse has claimed another victim in the form of Polymega, the modular retro gaming system developed by Playmaji. In a new statement, the company said prices for nearly every piece of Polymega-related hardware are going up. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
Round Up: The Switch 2 Games We Played At TGS From 2026’s Shoo-In ‘Publisher Of The Year’
Resident Mega Dogma Wilds. TGS 2026 is in full swing right now, and we’ve been able to go hands-on with a bunch of upcoming Switch 2 games, including a selection from every outlet’s Publisher of the Year*. The show is running from Thursday 17th to Monday 21st September (although an approaching typhoon has led the…
‘The largest theft of labor in human history:’ Court docs reveal Microsoft exec predicted AI ‘doom loops’ could hollow out the internet
In Dec. 2023, The New York Times filed one of the biggest copyright lawsuits in recent memory against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that its AI models heisted ludicrous amounts of journalistic work from the Times. Two days ago, a court filing (hosted and analyzed by Ars Technica) was newly unsealed with all sorts of revealing…
