One determined modder managed to cram Elden Ring’s hardest boss into Sekiro, and she hardly seems to stand a chance

It always kind of felt like Elden Ring’s super hard megaboss Malenia was a transplant from Sekiro, FromSoftware’s fast-paced, parry-focused ninja action game. Her aggressive swordplay could just about do laps around my sluggish Tarnished⁠—she almost seems to demand a Wolf’s precision. Enter the Land of Reeds mod from Last孤影众 (Gūyǐng zhòng), a Chinese gamer…

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The return of Fortnite’s original map brings a record-setting 6M concurrent players to the battle royale island

Fortnite has set a new all-time concurrent player record, with tracker fortnite.gg reporting 6.1 million concurrent players as the game’s all-time peak yesterday, November 4 2023. That new total of 6,172,463 people online at once might be chalked up to the Fortnite Chapter 4 release, Fortnite OG, which brings back the original island and weapons,…

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Guide: Best Nintendo Switch 2D Platformers

Jump up, jump up and get down. Updated with the… well, you know what word we’d use here: Super Mario Bros. Wonder. With so many excellent platformers available on Switch, picking something out from the overwhelming selection can be hard. The genre has a very strong pedigree on Nintendo systems going all the way back…

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Here’s a game where you’re an underpaid astronaut salvaging space trash and building an orbital factory from it

A third-person, open world survival craft-em-up about underpaid space workers will release this week in Space Trash Scavenger. It’s an interesting looking one, with the conceit that it’s a world where every little planetoid and asteroid has its own little sphere of gravity, including your own self-directed and constructed mobile scavenging platform. The same kind…

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Feature: Nintendo eShop Selects – October 2023

Our favourite Switch eShop games in October. The fireworks have started. The spooks are over. We’re approaching winter. And… it’s eShop Selects. We’re in November and closing in on the end of 2023, but while you sit around all wrapped up warm watching the fireworks for Bonfire Night (in the UK at least), why not…

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