This Nintendo Switch 2 review is one of the hardest I’ve had to write. As a PC gamer, the last couple of years of gaming handheld PCs have been fascinating, and, though they were likely in the works for a long time, it’s hard not to think of the original Nintendo Switch as being somewhat…
The original Minesweeper is a simple and precise puzzle. It’s a game of deduction—eliminating possibilities one by one, using cold, hard numbers, until you have found the truth. BroomSweeper dares to ask: what if sometimes the numbers were just lying to you? (Image credit: BandsWithLegends) Set in a surreal corporate dystopia, the game transplants Minesweeper…
Halo Infinite has announced the start of Operation: Legacy, a range of multiplayer tweaks, maps and modes that essentially makes Infinite resemble the golden age of Halo 3. We’ve been here before, kinda: last year saw Infinite throw a similar Halo 2-themed nostalgia party for that game’s 20th anniversary. But Halo 3 eh? Phwoar. Looking…
What’s better than being Judge Dredd? Being Judge Dredd with a pet robodog. Darktide’s first DLC class is the arbitrator, who enforces the Lex Imperialis with shotgun and shock maul. Or assault shield and shotpistol. And grenades and shock mines, and a flying loudspeaker drone called the nuncio aquila that barks commands and insults. But…
Chrono Odyssey appears to be a pretty traditional fantasy MMORPG for the first 30 minutes, but then time stuff happens and the entire look of the world and its monsters change. This is an ambitious MMO all about time-manipulation and I’m curious to see if it can pull it off. I spent some time in…
Category: Games June 12, 2025 Pragmata Brings a Thrillingly New Idea to Third-Person Shooters Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief The third-person shooter genre is a rich lineage, with developers building on the “right” way to combine gunplay, exploration, and puzzle-solving over the course of decades. We’ve seen these games adopt slow motion, cover mechanics, and…
Fly, power disc! The recent announcement that Evercade and SNK are working together to bring some of the Neo Geo’s most famous titles to a new audience was met with a positive response, but one game that sadly couldn’t be included as part of this deal is Windjammers—because SNK doesn’t own the rights to it….
To say the White House is ‘keen’ for the USA to be at the forefront of all things AI on the global stage is perhaps a bit of an understatement. Arguably, it’s been an AI feeding frenzy since day one of the current administration, and yet there are still calls for a further relaxing of…
Nearly 1 million consoles sold! The latest Japanese boxed charts are here, courtesy of Famitsu, and golly gosh, would you believe it, Mario Kart World has stormed to the top with a total of 782,566 copies sold. That’s simply incredible. The next in line is the Switch 1 version of Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma…
High-end graphics cards and CPUs are all very exciting, don’t get me wrong, but it’s the budget components that really get my blood flowing. So my veins are certainly working overtime right now as there’s a hint that we might be getting new AMD APUs before too long, courtesy of MSI’s latest 800-series BIOS update…