Join the club. The My Nintendo loyalty program is pretty good, right? If you head on over to the rewards section of the service right now, you’ll find a host of interesting goodies to claim should you possess the required number of coins. These include a Nintendo Switch Online 2025 Calendar, a set of Super…
Category: Games Crescent County Is the Witch-Tech Racing-Delivery-Life-Sim You Didn’t Know You Needed Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published November 26, 2024 Before I played an early version of Crescent County, I didn’t know that an in-game version of a motorized, magical broomstick could feel right. But here I am, drawing wide arcs through the…
“We had changed it all for nothing”. Given that many people watch movies and play video games, it should come as no great shock to learn that there’s been plenty of marketing crossover between the two mediums over the decades. While it’s not as common now, once upon a time, every major Hollywood movie had…
Before Baldur’s Gate 3 appeared and consumed my entire world, Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire was the CRPG I pointed to as the best example of how a modern game in this venerable genre should look. It was deeply connected to the legacy of the Infinity Engine games, but boasted a setting that allowed Obsidian…
Series includes Fingers Keepers, Spellbound, Knight Tyme and Stormbringer. David Jones has confirmed that he is working on a new entry in his beloved Magic Knight series, just in time for its 40th anniversary. “2025 will bring a new Magic Knight game,” he says on BlueSky. “The series stopped in 1987, and now, for the…
Dededelicious. Everyone’s favourite pink puffball, Kirby, is teaming up with Heinz (you know, the tomato ketchup guys) for a new range of sauces in Japan. Well, that’s not a sentence we thought we’d be writing today, but we can’t say we’re surprised. Shared by the official Heinz Twitter account, the Kirby range will be launching…
The Destiny 2 damage meta is a fragile thing, twisting at the mercy of balance and efficiency and encounter design. You can go a long way in the game with a good grenade launcher and a decent one-shot Super, but the real sickos are out here doing unholy things with weapon switches, armour hotswaps and…
Lenovo isn’t messing around with its Legion gaming PCs. They are resolutely, uncompromisingly just PCs. Sure, there’s the faintest nod to ‘gamer’ styling with the RGB-illuminated front panel and the see-through side, but the Legion Tower 5i is, without wanting to sound at all mean, pretty basic. Which I think is grand. I am all…
Positively sparkles. Earlier this year, Retro-Bit announced it was reissuing Jaleco’s Rod Land on NES and Game Boy – and now, those same carts are arriving in the hands of customers who pre-ordered them months ago. We were lucky enough to be sent some copies to show off here, and we’re pleased to report that…
One of my favourite companions in Dragon Age: Origins is Shale. She’s a deadpan, dry-voiced golem with a hatred for pigeons that does credit to her dwarven, grudge-bearing heritage. She was also a day-one DLC character but, while discussing her, series creator and lead writer David Gaider reveals that was mostly due to a lack…