“It should have been an OLED screen from the get-go”. One aspect of the Nintendo Switch 2 that has generated a lot of interest is its display. While Nintendo released an OLED model of the original Switch, which massively improved over the launch model’s LCD screen, for Switch 2, it has opted to return to…
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“This is your pilot speaking. Just one moment, my traffic controller needs to swap out their floppy disk… there we go.” Those are disquieting words you probably don’t want to hear, for nobody wants to know their airborne equilibrium is still in the hands of 20th-century technology. Yet apparently, many US air traffic control systems…
Category: Games June 11, 2025 Mixtape Is a Box of Surprises that Plays Like a Classic Teen Movie Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief About 10 minutes into my hands-on with Mixtape, I started thinking to myself: “This is the first game I’ve played where its biggest inspiration might be ‘Wayne’s World’”. And then I hit…
There’s something alluring about high finance, isn’t there? Mostly, I suppose, it’s the promise of generating absolutely enormous amounts of money for very little actual work, but it’s undeniable that the industry—such as it is—has gone out of its way to cloak itself in a certain mystique. The suits, the jargon, the barking into telephones…
Ubisoft announced earlier this year that, as part of a massive overhaul, Rainbow Six Siege was becoming Rainbow Six Siege X, and adopting a free-to-play model to boot (which the publisher insists on calling “free to access”, more on which later). Ever since release Siege has been one of the best tactical shooters out there:…
A sold-out 700-strong crowd at the BBC’s famous TC1 studio in West London’s Television Centre was treated to an awesome demonstration of racing on Gran Turismo 7 on Saturday, 7 June. With a display of stunning cars gracing the Helios Circle outside the iconic venue, and a big screen relaying the action to those without…
“Stay tuned!”. A few days back, the online repair community iFixit posted a brief teardown of the new Switch 2 Joy-Con and confirmed that the sticks are nearly identical to the Switch 1 in terms of how they’ve been built. Naturally, then, this has caused a bit of kerfuffle with fans; many of which are…
Pitting the Steam Deck against the Nintendo Switch 2 feels like a very different competition than pitting the Deck against the Switch 2’s predecessor. Now, Nintendo’s choice is the more expensive, more recent option, and it oddly feels like a bit of an underdog. The Nintendo Switch was a small revelation when it first dropped…
“I Don’t Need To Give ‘Hideo Kojima’ To Anyone”. Hideo Kojima is one of the industry’s most famous game designers, and has been responsible for hits such as Metal Gear Solid, Death Stranding, Policenauts, Snatcher and Zone of the Enders. As one of the most influential names in the business—and a man in his 60s—you’d…