The Big N’s lowest ranking yet. Metacritic has today revealed its 15th annual game publisher rankings, giving us an updated look at how the biggest publishers of 2024 performed based on critic reviews. Nintendo wound up in 22nd place out of the 37 publishers in this year’s list which, considering it landed in sixth place…
While event quests in Monster Hunter Wilds might not seem as lucrative as hunting high level Tempered monsters in investigations, they can provide significant rewards. Whether the ability to farm Armor Spheres and decorations, or even ticket items that you can turn into Gemma to craft otherwise inaccessible armor pieces. Monster Hunter Wilds’ event quests…
Kickflippin’ ‘eck… Sigh… We really don’t like reporting on this kind of stuff, but alas, it’s our duty to you, our dear readers, to know what you’re getting yourself into. Judging from images of the box art online, it looks like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 will require a mandatory download on the…
Western Digital (WD) is one of the most recognisable brands for both SSDs and hard drives, alongside Samsung and Crucial. So it’s no small thing that you might not see WD SSDs for much longer, as the company will no longer make or sell them. That’s because, after a long time in the works, last…
The embers are still hot from Nvidia’s RTX 5070 graphics card launch, but looking around, you’d be hard-pressed to tell anything happened at all. I’ve covered a good few GPU launches in my time, including the crypto/covid-driven shortages, and I’ve been a customer trying to buy a GPU in the past. So I get that…
“Tektites! Pe-pe-peahats!”. The latest episode of the Video Game History Hour (the Video Game History Foundation’s podcast) has just been released, and it’s a good one, featuring an interview with the “marketing mastermind” Gail Tilden (who you may also know as the founding editor of Nintendo Power). The interview was originally recorded in front of…
Category: Games March 5, 2025 “Did We Actually Do That?”: Josef Fares Explains How Split Fiction Pushes the Co-Op Adventure Genre Further Than Ever Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief There was a moment, after years of development on Split Fiction began to come to a close, where director Josef Fares found himself playing through his…
The Bazaar, after seven long years, is finally entering into open beta with a F2P package—and it’s, uh, not going great. Here’s the rub: In a recent video going over patch 0.1.8’s notes, it was revealed that the autobattler would be receiving a “prize pass”—a battlepass-style earn-via-playing system which’ll allow players to grind 10-card expansions…
“What a mess”. Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has implemented a range of tariffs on goods being imported into the country. The introductions, which came into effect yesterday, include a 25% tariff on products from Mexico and a 20% tariff on goods from China (an additional 10% on what was initially implemented…
As the upcoming Minecraft film creeps closer, one modder has found a creative way to blur the lines between film and game. By adding Jack Black’s voice to Minecraft, players can now feel even closer to the one who calls himself Steve (via GamesRadar). It all started after a player compiled all the times Jack…