In your sights. One of the many new features of the Switch 2 is the Joy-Con 2’s mouse mode ability. It’s already been showcased within the launch window with new and old titles, and later this year, it will be available in Samus’ first-person adventure, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. If you are eager to warm…
Fata Deum cites Black & White and Populous as inspirations, and it sure does look like a god game in the classic mold. You get to lord it over a bunch of tiny people, granting their wishes with miracles or punishing them arbitrarily at your whim. If God really is a gamer, we’re probably screwed,…
Don’t miss it. Pokémon Legends: Z-A is easily one of the most anticipated Switch (and Switch 2) releases of this year, and although trainers will have to wait until October to get their hands on it, it seems there will be a few ways to sample the new entry before then. In case you missed…
I like ghost stuff. I like stories about ghosts, I like seeing old photographs that supposedly show evidence of ghosts, and I like videos that claim to show ghost activity. But I view all that stuff as goofy fun. There’s always a reasonable explanation for whatever shadowy face can be seen in an old photo…
There’s a board game for everything now. Last time I looked in at my local store they had board games based on Oregon Trail, the Iliad, and World War II espionage in the Mediterranean theater specifically. I shouldn’t be surprised there’s going to be a board game based on that one fighting game where you…
Be in the know. Nintendo has already launched a news app this year, and now The Pokémon Company International is following this up with its very own events application for mobile devices. This new app – officially known as Pokémon Events – is now available on Android and IOS devices and as the name suggests,…
Have I ever complained about boss fights before? Spoiler alert: Yes I have, multiple times, in these very pages. Is that going to keep me from doing it again? Not a chance, pal. Because listen, it bears repeating: Boss fights are bullshit—tedious holdovers from the arcade era designed to separate stupid kids (like me) from…
Anthem isn’t getting shuttered for good until January 2026, but it’s already spent years as one of the industry’s preeminent tragedies. This week, former Anthem executive producer and BioWare veteran Mark Darrah published the first of a multi-video YouTube series about the game’s ill-fated production history, and how BioWare’s storytelling chops might have been too…
Dead aim. I don’t think I’ve ever messed around with a game’s settings menu as much as The House of the Dead 2: Remake. And, unfortunately, try as I might, I could never get the game to feel ‘good’. Much like its predecessor on the Switch, Forever Entertainment’s latest arcade revamp is limited to just…
We don’t know a whole lot about the setting for Battlefield 6, but the broad strokes were revealed late last week: “Major European countries” have pulled out of NATO, leaving the US and some unspecified number of remaining allies to stand alone against a massive mercenary outfit called Pax Armata. It’s a scenario that feels…