Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. Announced For Switch 2

Exciting news for SEGA fighting fans. Sega has announced it’s bringing its legendary fighting game series Virtua Fighter to the Nintendo Switch 2. It’s kicking this off with the release of Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. which will be arriving at some point in the future. This particular version will include rollback netcode and cross-play –…

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Black Mirror’s interactive episode Bandersnatch is being removed from Netflix, as ‘the technology has served its purpose’

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the anthology’s interactive, choose-your-own (miserable) TV adventure, is being removed from Netflix on Monday, meaning you’ve got just a few more days to sample the series’ most experimental episode. Set in 1984, Bandersnatch tells the story of Stefan, who makes a demo for a game called Bandersnatch based on a book once…

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The best FPS of 2024 simply cannot stop adding new maps, introducing 37 new arenas, 4 new weapons, and a ‘Horrible Smelly Head’ in its latest update

Rarely have I been so instantly enamoured with a game as Straftat, a gleefully chaotic micro-FPS created by two brothers who couldn’t find a decent deathmatch shooter to play. Straftat pitches two players against each other in lightning-paced 1v1 duels. Less of a throwback and more of a distillation of the classic deathmatches of yore—particularly…

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MechWarrior 5’s beefy story expansion is out, and it has the most videogame title I’ve ever had the pleasure to read

I love a clunky-ass videogame title. Some may argue that videogame names should be kept simple and punchy, like Doom or Quake or BioShock. I would counter that your videogame isn’t truly a videogame unless the name has at least two punctuation marks in it. I’m talking Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines, or my personal favourite, The…

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Timberborn’s latest update adds ziplines and tubeways for rapid beaver deployment and stops your rodent residents from throwing down in sudden fits of breakdancing

Timberborn is yet another example of just how brilliant the city-building genre is right now. Mechanistry’s beaver-themed management sim lets you construct a water-powered metropolis for the world’s most engineeringly-minded rodent, constructing dams and aqueducts, powering your city with waterwheels. All that, and it’s still in early access, with subsequent updates adding mechanised beavers and…

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Poll: Box Art Brawl: Mario Party 3

Let’s roll. We are back with another edition of Box Art Brawl! Are you ready to rank some cover art? Last time, we took a look at 1080° Avalanche for the GameCube, and the results were an absolute blowout. The European / North American design took a staggering win, claiming 80% of the vote and…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, May 11

Win your daily Wordle game your way, with our help. Need tips? We’ve got a fantastic quick list to refresh your guessing techniques. Maybe you’d like to take a look at our May 11 (1422) clue instead? No problem, just scroll through and you’ll see it. How about a peek at today’s answer for a…

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After conflict between the staff of gaming site Giant Bomb and owner Fandom, ‘Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb’

In October of 2022, popular personality-led gaming site Giant Bomb was bought by Fandom, the multi-headed wiki-hosting hydra, at the same time as Fandom acquired GameSpot, Metacritic, and GameFAQs. Conflict between Fandom and the opiniated editors of Giant Bomb arose this year when the publication of new content was put on hold as part of…

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