Out with the old (DK). In case you somehow missed it, Donkey Kong has been given a new design in his upcoming Switch 2 release Donkey Kong Bananza. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Virtual Game Card, GameShare and Switch 2 transfers. The Switch 2 arrives this June, and as part of this, Nintendo has some things it needs to prepare before the new system’s arrival. This includes the release of a new firmware update for the original Switch today, which bumps the device up to Version 20.0.0 and…
Things could get pretty bleak in classic text adventure The Oregon Trail, with dwindling supplies, damaging storms, and hostile entities making the frontier journey a test of resource management and strategy. Dying of dysentery was only one of the risks, along with (depending on which of the many versions you played) broken limbs, typhoid, or…
It’s another busy month. We’re still taking in everything that’s recently been announced for the Switch 2 (and Switch 1), but there’s no time to slow down with May just around the corner. If you are wondering what’s up next and haven’t had a chance to investigate it for yourself just yet, Nintendo has now…
Remember NFTs? Essentially JPEGs that cost a lot of money, non-fungible tokens were really big for a brief while among C-tier celebrities, budding criminals, and Ubisoft, until the internet was finally able to bully them out of sight and thus out of mind: Not really gone, but mostly forgotten. But a funny thing recently happened…
The stars aligned last week when I got to play the two biggest extraction shooters of 2025 on the same day: The Marathon alpha began at the same time that Embark held a press session for Arc Raiders. Going in, I was way more interested in Marathon. Not only is it an FPS (the superior…
The Splitgate 2 open alpha test that ran earlier this year was “very fun,” in the opinion of PC Gamer shooter pro Morgan Park, with some significant changes made based on feedback from a playtest that ran in 2024. And there’s good news if you missed it: 1047 Games announced today that a much bigger…
In 2006 Final Fantasy 12 was a brand new PlayStation 2 game, the Xbox 360’s hard drive was at least in spirit still an optional extra, and horse armour DLC was the biggest corporate issue surrounding Oblivion’s launch. I didn’t play the game back then because I thought I didn’t need to—I had Morrowind, a…
