The Trump administration announced sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs across the globe, ranging from a 10% baseline tariff on most countries to 30% or more on countries like Thailand (36%), Vietnam (46%), Cambodia (49%!), and Taiwan (32%). That last one might ring alarm bells for anyone wise to the global trade in semiconductors, as you’ll know it’s…
2 takes. After years of speculation, Switch 2 finally exists. It’s got a launch date, a price, a bunch of accessories, and — most importantly — a lineup of games large and small, all showcased in an hour-long Direct which answered a lot of questions. But what does the system actually feel like in the…
200 million files and 650 TB have been preserved so far. At this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, a senior build engineer at PlayStation named Garrett Fredley gave a talk, entitled Preserving the Past for the Future: A PlayStation Case Study. The talk, which has since been written up by GamesRadar staff (who were in attendance),…
It also saves the battery life a little. In an interview published during yesterday’s Switch 2-focused Nintendo Direct, the console’s developers answered some questions about how it handles original Switch software, and the responses were interesting. During Ask the Developer Vol. 16: Nintendo Switch 2: Part 4, Takuhiro Dohta and Kouichi Kawamoto were questioned on…
“I don’t understand why there’s any debate to be had”. Yesterday, as you’ll all be aware, Nintendo showed off the Switch 2 along with a bunch of games, one of which was a new entry in the Donkey Kong saga. Donkey Kong Bananza showcased a new version of the character, marking the first time he’s…
“It will no longer cost $500 to play Path of Radiance!”. Yesterday, Nintendo lifted the lid on Switch 2, its next hybrid console, which launches this June and will cost $450. There were plenty of big announcements—which you can read about here—but for retro fans, the confirmation that GameCube games are coming to Nintendo Switch…
The price of performance. As details continue to flood in about Nintendo’s Switch 2 console, it’s been confirmed that the battery, whilst having a larger overall capacity than that found in its predecessor, won’t actually last as long in play. During a Q&A with the Switch 2 developers, producer Kouichi Kawamoto stated that the battery…
Make it snappy. We were slightly mixed on the Nintendo Switch 2 Camera when it was revealed in yesterday’s GameChat rundown. Sure, it’s a neat little curio and we’re sure it will lead to some fun times, but there’s no denying that it looks a little… Kinect-y. Well, all of those fears are now banished…
I gotta be honest, Slay The Spire never quite sunk its claws in me the way it did for other people. That’s no criticism—the game’s great—I just lack whatever piece of brain chemistry it is that makes some people while away weeks at a time on run after run after run. Which is weird, because…
FromSoftware’s Elden Ring Nightreign is almost upon us, and publisher Bandai Namco is ramping up the marketing with the first of what is likely to be a series of short videos on the game’s characters. Unlike FromSoftware’s other Souls-y titles, Nightreign’s player characters are all preset archetypes, and here we get a look at the…