You aren’t the only one hopelessly wondering where Hodari is in Palia, don’t worry. Kilima Village’s eligible single dad miner doesn’t hang out in town for very long each day so he’s tough to track down when you need to turn in quests to him. The really short answer is that if you can’t find…
Once upon a time, it was inconceivable that laptops could be used for any kind of meaningful gaming beyond point-and-click adventures and games whose polygon counts are about on par with LEGO. That’s changed over the years, in large part thanks to the efforts of graphics honchos Nvidia who have been endowing laptops with powerful…
Switch scores a full house in the top 10. Famitsu has revealed the latest box charts from Japan (thanks, Gematsu) and it’s another resounding triumph for Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which scored an additional 94,682 units sold. It’s also a full house for the Switch once again, with every space in the top ten taken…
When the developers of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora called its unobtanium graphics preset “extremely difficult to run on currently available hardware”, I could only see that as a challenge. But not so much a challenge for me, for my poor test bench’s AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. I have the goods—a test bench with a…
Thanks to its extensive new player support and its innovative story mode, Street Fighter 6 was the best fighting game of the year. For more awards, head to the Game of the Year 2023 hub. Tyler Wilde, Executive Editor: Thanks to the deeper-than-usual tutorials and practice modes, I finally understand Street Fighter basics that have…
So many games get the “horror” label, but I’m not often that scared by them. Take this year’s Alan Wake 2, for example. It’s a great thriller with some genuinely spooky moments, but otherwise the biggest frights were FMV jump scares that felt like those old troll YouTube videos where an exorcist face would pop…
In 2022, Guild Wars 2 celebrated its 10th anniversary with an expansion that closed the book on its first major story arc. With the decade of dragons over, the rest of the year was spent tidying things up. The first season of its living world story was reintroduced, a swathe of quality-of-life updates were made…
Our personal picks for the best Switch games of 2023. 2023 is all but wrapped up. It’s been a colossal year in terms of the quantity and quality of software on all platforms. The mass layoffs we’ve seen across the industry in recent months are a worrying sign for anyone who cares about video games,…
Coming 2024. If you’re a fan of murder mysteries or Japanese adventure games like Famicom Detective Club or Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, then you’ll no doubt be excited to hear about Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved. Announced a few weeks ago for PC, it is a brand-new detective adventure game/visual novel from the first-time developer…
“A bit of a, um… fun?”. Easter eggs in video games aren’t a new thing – they started life right at the dawn of the industry, with Atari’s 1980 game Adventure being one of the most notable early examples. However, new secrets are always being discovered – even in games that are several years old…