A step in the right direction. In addition to the overall firmware update for the Switch, Nintendo has provided an update to the (now red) Switch eShop that is very welcome in one way, and perhaps not so welcome in another. To put it simply, changes applied to the ‘Charts’ and ‘Current Offers’ pages now…
Sega Europe is leaving its Brentford-based office for pastures new. Since 2004, the friendly face of Sonic the Hedgehog has gazed down on the M4 motorway in Brentford, West London, thanks to the fact that it’s attached to the building that has served as Sega Europe’s home for over two decades. While the company has…
I’m gonna be so real with you right now: the most coding I’ve done in the last year is tinkering in narrative tools like Twine and Ink—both of which are programs geared towards writers such as myself who respect more technical coding as much as they fear it. Still, turning to AI to generate code…
Y’know… just in case. Virtual Game Cards is now a thing for the Nintendo Switch, letting you easily ‘eject and load’ titles from one console to another and lend digital games to family and friends, while providing a more elegant solution to redownloading your eShop games. One small, yet notable addition includes the ability to…
It’s hard to imagine Eric Barone saying that he failed in any aspect regarding Stardew Valley. What started out as a simple Harvest Moon clone, a way to teach him how to code and perfect pixel art, evolved into a phenomenon that is still having a lasting impact on the cosy farming sim genre. But…
Stardew Valley has become the backbone of farming simulators since its launch in 2016, and the impact it had on the genre and the games that followed is clear as day. As soon as a trailer for a new farming simulator drops, someone will make a comparison with Stardew Valley, no matter how far a…
Intel seems to have been on the gaming performance improvement grind lately, and it’s now claiming a significant uplift in its new low-power chips thanks to driver updates. This is particularly good news for us PC gamers because it means some high-end handhelds and low-power laptops should get a free boost for gaming. In a…
Google’s share of online search is on the slide according to Statcounter (via Tuta). Google’s overall share of web searches has fallen below 90% for the first time in a decade. But it’s doing even worse in certain categories and territories, including desktop PC users and in Europe, both of which have dipped below 80%…
The Unity 3D project offers an interesting take on the game that never was. As many Metroid fans will know, Nintendo’s popular sci-fi series about the arm-cannon touting bounty hunter Samus Aran famously skipped out on appearing on the N64 during the console’s run, despite being teased in magazines of the time like Next Generation….
It’s for the better, though. As you’ll no doubt be aware by now, a new system update has been applied to the Nintendo Switch that essentially gets a few things in order before the upcoming launch of the Switch 2. One thing that might have flown under your radar is that redownloading titles directly from…