Play with pride. Happy Pride month, everyone! Yes, it obviously began a few weeks back when a certain console launch was occupying our every waking moment (so please forgive the tardiness!), but we’re updating and republishing this list of some of Switch’s best and most inclusive games in celebration. Enjoy! The games industry has not…
Around the 25-hour mark of Death Stranding 2, one of Japan’s most acclaimed film directors asked me to deliver a pizza to his neighbor a valley away—an anime VTuber who has withdrawn from humanity after seeing her weapons bent towards evil. “The one thing she still does seem to believe in, however,” says the extensive…
Time has a funny way of changing people’s views. Anger and mistrust can often fade into mild scepticism, and once bitter rivals can sometimes develop a healthy understanding. This certainly seems to be true of Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and his thoughts on Microsoft and Windows in general. And just recently, the famous…
When MMOs are populated by races of all shapes and sizes, it’s inevitable that some of them—let’s face it, usually the less humanoid folk—are going to get the short end of the stick when it comes to nice-looking gear. Armor warps and stretches on a Charr’s large frame in Guild Wars 2, and helmets often…
Lost in Blue Mobile: Marina & Riku is an original game in the classic survival series. Lost in Blue Mobile: Marina & Riku Edition, a super rare mobile spin-off of the Nintendo DS game Lost in Blue has just been preserved by an individual named @frigamarrymepls, according to the feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo. Lost in…
Oh to be left alone, to sleep for three months, it’s something I’ve only ever dreamed of, but it’s a feat that Marvel Rivals’ mysterious character Blade has managed to pull off. But now, a couple of weeks before Season 3, the sleepy vampire has disappeared—suspicious. “Mrrrr! Mrrr! Mrr! (Where did he go this time?!),”…
If you only ever paid attention to its videogame efforts, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Microsoft is constantly trading blows with Apple and Nvidia for the position of ‘biggest corporation on Earth by market cap’. In our neck of the woods, Microsoft is a perpetual third to Nintendo and Sony in the console wars,…
Bricking it. As we reported last week, Nintendo has been banning Switch 2 consoles from using online services if it finds them to be using MiG carts, effectively ‘bricking’ the new consoles by denying them any online access whatsoever. Nintendo has seemingly decided to come down tough on this issue for its new generation of…
It’s no lie that the gaming industry in recent years has been crushing. You can do a good job, a bad job, a medium job—it doesn’t matter, the sword of Damocles can plunge at any moment. I won’t go into my list of examples, partially because I’ve shared them before, but also because I’ve got…
We all know that if a company provides a service for free, then it’s being funded through things such as affiliate marketing, shopping links, or data scraping. The most common method is, of course, advertising, and it’s absolutely everywhere, though there’s one sector that’s yet to be really hit by it, and that’s AI. But…