Here’s how it holds up. Mortal Kombat 1 went into early access this week and players have finally been able to get their hands on all versions of the game. The question many have been wondering for some time now is how the game holds up on the Switch compared to other versions and now…
(Image credit: Bethesda) As is usually the case with Bethesda RPGs, Starfield is a dream for modders. There are bugs to fix, a clunky UI to replace, and plenty of wide open spaces to fill with nonsense. Our list of the best Starfield mods is growing, and there’s plenty still left to do. It’s not…
What are you most excited about? The latest Nintendo Direct was packed out with all sorts of announcements from the return of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door to a Tomb Raider trilogy remaster. If you are looking for a quick recap, Nintendo has now released an infographic highlighting a good chunk of the games that…
Beloved robot friend simulator and first-person shooter Titanfall 2 has had a matchmaking problem for years. Even after its previous server issues were fixed, players would still be disconnected if they had to queue for any length of time. And, given that Titanfall 2 came out in 2016, it’s pretty likely you’d be waiting in…
It’s always a challenge managing a meticulously crafted MMO sandbox, but Destiny 2’s eternal struggle for a meta no one will whine about has been absolutely turned on its head by yesterday’s discovery of Frankenguns. Thanks to a crafting glitch, players have been churning out ungodly firearm chimeras to melt raid bosses in seconds. Bungie’s…
Roguelike God of Weapons is for you if you’ve got some kind of deep-seated need only satisfied by the inventory management that you learned to love way back in Diablo 1 and 2. The action roguelike, released just this week, pits you against ever-escalating swarms of monsters as you climb the levels of a tower….
Insomniac Games has let slip a new trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 where they detail new gameplay changes show off a greatly expanded map for the sequel. The new map is significantly larger, presumably to accommodate all the new powers and to make room for two Spider-heroes swinging about at once. “We’re nearly doubling the…
Valve’s let slip a preview for SteamOS 3.5, the system that runs the Steam Deck, among a few other things, and you can now opt-in to an updated build rich with visual improvements and tweaks—among a few other fixes. The biggest single change is that Valve has rebalanced the Steam Deck’s default colors. It’s now…
More than the sum of its parts. Summum Aeterna, a prequel to 2022’s Aeterna Noctis, riffs on a Dead Cells-style genre fusion, mixing roguelite elements into the tough Metroidvania structure of its predecessor for a game that doesn’t pull its punches. The result feels rough around the edges but it’s hard to deny that the…
To Urbz is human. When I was working on my MFA in Game Design, I referenced Urbz: Sims in the City in a meeting with my thesis advisor, and he asked if I had played the console or the handheld version. I was confident that I’d played the console version growing up. I could recall…