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…
Mysterious dimension. Over the weekend, a Yahoo Japan interview (geo-locked) with Smash Bros. lead and game dev extraordinaire Masahiro Sakurai has blown up in the West, with reports suggesting that the Kirby creator is advocating for generative AI. However, it seems the nuance of his comments have gotten a little lost in translation. Translated quotes…
Looking for the best Arbites build for Darktide‘s new skull-bashing, body-blasting Lex Imperialis enforcer? It’s been a very long time coming, but this new class is extremely fun, channeling those Judge Dredd vibes into an unstoppable juggernaut of justice, along with his little heretic-hungry cyberdog pal. Having played the Arbites extensively over the past two…
Missing Link. There’s no denying that Mario Kart World packs a pretty impressive roster of racers (come on, 50 characters, plus costumes ain’t bad), but we’d be foolish if we didn’t pour one out for the familiar faces that were lost along the way. We’re talking, of course, about the Koopalings wider Nintendo characters that…
A fan patch for the 1994 adventure game ‘Belzerion’ is now available. At the end of last week, a group of fan translators released a brand new English language patch for the 3DO graphic adventure/first-person shooter Belzerion, giving people the chance to experience another obscure title in the console’s library. Belzerion is a game from…
No more slowdown or sprite flicker! We’ve seen a bunch of classic NES titles get natively ported to the SNES, and now it’s the turn of Konami’s Life Force / Salamander, an offshoot of the Gradius series. Rumbleminze has leveraged FastROM/HiROM to create a 1:1 conversion of the game on Nintendo’s 16-bit console. The developer…
We may be PC Gamer, but a Hideo Kojima launch is an industry-wide event, and as we speak, there are PS5-having PCG writers down in the Strand trenches attempting to make sense of the silly puppet man and how a game can be both horny and sexless. You know the drill: Weird global simu-launch, it’s…
During the Great Britpop Wars of the 1990s someone might have asked you whether you preferred Oasis or Blur. The correct answer was “Pulp, actually.” Likewise, if someone asks whether you like Path of Exile 2 or Diablo 4, the correct answer is Grim Dawn, dammit. Crate Entertainment’s mud-and-blood action RPG was thought dead when…