2025
Nintendo Highlights Multiple Switch Games Launching In May 2025
It’s another busy month. We’re still taking in everything that’s recently been announced for the Switch 2 (and Switch 1), but there’s no time to slow down with May just around the corner. If you are wondering what’s up next and haven’t had a chance to investigate it for yourself just yet, Nintendo has now…
More than 19,000 NFT images briefly disappeared last week thanks to a server problem
Remember NFTs? Essentially JPEGs that cost a lot of money, non-fungible tokens were really big for a brief while among C-tier celebrities, budding criminals, and Ubisoft, until the internet was finally able to bully them out of sight and thus out of mind: Not really gone, but mostly forgotten. But a funny thing recently happened…
I’m honestly shocked, but Arc Raiders is a much more exciting extraction shooter than Marathon
The stars aligned last week when I got to play the two biggest extraction shooters of 2025 on the same day: The Marathon alpha began at the same time that Embark held a press session for Arc Raiders. Going in, I was way more interested in Marathon. Not only is it an FPS (the superior…
Splitgate 2 open beta test kicks off in May with a ‘massive amount of new content’
The Splitgate 2 open alpha test that ran earlier this year was “very fun,” in the opinion of PC Gamer shooter pro Morgan Park, with some significant changes made based on feedback from a playtest that ran in 2024. And there’s good news if you missed it: 1047 Games announced today that a much bigger…
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered review
In 2006 Final Fantasy 12 was a brand new PlayStation 2 game, the Xbox 360’s hard drive was at least in spirit still an optional extra, and horse armour DLC was the biggest corporate issue surrounding Oblivion’s launch. I didn’t play the game back then because I thought I didn’t need to—I had Morrowind, a…
‘AI is going to become more and more difficult to detect’: Fortnite has no plans to clean up increasing number of AI thumbnails cluttering up user-generated experiences
Head into Fortnite’s ever-growing library of user-generated game modes and you’ll be inundated with all kinds of AI-generated thumbnails vying for your attention. That won’t be changing anytime soon either, as Epic product management director Dan Walsh and executive vice president Saxs Persson dove into the rise of generative AI usage in Fortnite during a…
EA And Respawn Hit By Hundreds Of Layoffs As New Project Cancelled
Between 300 to 400 people have lost their job. Electronic Arts is reportedly laying off between 300-400 staff, with 100 of those coming from Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi developer Respawn, Bloomberg reports. A spokesperson for EA told the publication that the Redwood City, California-based company has “made select changes within our organization that…