Play them today. Nintendo has today added three more games to its Switch Online ‘Nintendo Classics’ subscription service. The latest releases are for the NES library and include Namco’s Pac-Man from 1988, the 1989 puzzle title Mendel Palace (developed by the Pokémon team Game Freak and published by Namco in Japan), and Namco’s 1984 action…
Add some muscle to your team. Pokémon Champions has officially arrived on the Switch this week, and putting the teething issues aside for one moment, the battle title’s first mystery gift event has now officially gone live. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
If you’re a player of one of the best survival games ever made, Project Zomboid, I’ve got an important news alert for you. Check the list below to see if you downloaded and installed any of the 14 Steam Workshop mods developer The Indie Stone says contain “heavily obfuscated code” that was “creating malicious files…
I’ve never been in a match of Counter-Strike before and I can still recognize Dust 2 when I see it. It’s a testament to the iconic design that it’s just as recognizable when it’s been built with the rudimentary tools of World of Warcraft’s player housing. An incredibly resourceful player recreated the map in the…
Hazelight Studios is known for making one kind of game—co-op action adventures—and for doing them really well: 2021’s It Takes Two earned an 80% review score as “a brilliant co-op adventure with a wild amount of variety,” while the 2025 follow-up Split Fiction upped the ante to 87% with “an incredibly inventive, rapid-fire co-op adventure…
Here is a story about how I learned to code at age 13. How most of us learned. I was 13 in 1980. Back then, at home, our family had an Apple II Plus, but not a lot of software – especially we had very few games to play. But pretty much every computer had…
I love a new-old game as much as anyone, but it’s hard to pretend that today’s retro throwbacks aren’t drawing inspiration from a small, predictable selection of extremely popular games: Zelda. Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy. Castlevania. Metroid. Mega Man. These are perfectly understandable picks for a game of any size to be inspired by—there are…
Nestled away amongst a pile of recently updated pages on Microsoft’s Learn site, which contains product documentation and technical resources, was a curiously titled article: “Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year.” I thought that can’t be right, surely everything would have fallen over long ago, but it turns out that…
It’s safe to say that Grand Theft Auto 6 is the single most anticipated videogame in history. But while it’s hard to imagine GTA 6 achieving anything other than a monolithic sales success, HipHopGamer said in an interview with PC Gamer that he expects it’s going to be making people outside of Rockstar and Take-Two…
It sure feels like a girl can’t reach into her closet for the old wizard school robe and hat without finding several skeletons hiding in there too. I really thought I’d never find a fun wizarding school game to play that doesn’t come with a boot full of baggage. Silly of me to have not…