The title is now the “standard platform” for the VGC. Last year, it was announced Pokémon’s Video Game Championships would shift across to Pokémon Champions in 2026. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
AI is coming to take my job, so I’d better start looking for a new one. Luckily, there are a ton of job simulators on Steam, and I’m going to play as many as I can until I find my next career. This week’s job: Zoo Life Simulator, an early access game about managing a…
Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” “Starting to be able to use a PC was one…
It’s that time of year where everyone says they’re going to sort out the boxes and bags of stuff that have been thrown into storage, and yes, I’m among the crowd who is desperately trying to do the same. But half the fun of deciding to do this is finding things I’ve simply forgotten I…
On the face of it, Altera looks like a typical military survival sandbox. It’s a game about wandering through a massive, vaguely central European landscape in military camo, building a base, crafting useful items, and taking on missions from dead-eyed NPCs to shoot other dead-eyed NPCs in authentic ranged combat. It’s basically DayZ without the…
Welcome back, Tenno. The Switch 2 version of Digital Extremes’ free-to-play online action game Warframe launched this week, and as promised, it’s loaded with a bunch of next-generation enhancements. If you haven’t already played it yourself, the development team has now shared its own side-by-side comparison trailer highlighting all of the improvements from higher resolution…
I’m not sure I’ve entirely got my head around Vaunted, the latest game to emerge from the stable of Hooded Horse, PC gaming’s hottest publisher. Revealed at last week’s Xbox Partner Preview, Vaunted is a sci-fi tactical RPG where you control a motley crew of thieves and mercenaries forced to do the bidding of a…
My favorite old school game has got to be 1962’s Spacewar! Spacewar! may well be the first true video game ever made. Developed by Steve Russel and collaborators at MIT. This 2-player space combat video game was played on a circular monochrome vector graphics display with “wrap-around” math. When the Spaceship went off the side…
Won’t you play with my Chingling? Back in February, we ran a series of polls to determine your very favourite Pokémon after 30 years of the franchise. With 1025 known Pokémon at the time (this was before the reveal of the Gen 10 starters, and we’ve asked for your thoughts on those already), it was…
Move over, Nick Valentine, there’s another synthetic sleuth in town. Revealed at this week’s Xbox Partner Preview, Artificial Detective is a new action adventure game from neophyte studio Vivix, composed of former developers of games like Dead Space, Control, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Artificial Detective sees you play as a robotic gumshoe…