Which runs rings around the rest? Hello folks, and welcome to a very special edition of Box Art Brawl! Before we get into the weeds with this one, let’s see how last week’s brawl concluded. We looked at Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D to celebrate the announcement of the upcoming remake, and we honestly weren’t…
Season 2 of Marathon kicked off earlier this month, and thus far it’s been a season of ups and downs. Things started badly, with Bungie’s traditional launch woes undermining its free-to-play week. But new features like the Night-time Dire Marsh map and its Sponsored Survival quickly proved hits popular with the community. A few weeks…
Arriving this September. Bandai Namco this week announced it would be releasing a Switch 2 version of MY HERO ACADEMIA: All’s Justice. The Nintendo release of this 3D battle action title, based on the “Final War” of the series, will arrive later this year on 4th September 2026. The game was previously released on PS5,…
During the early days of home consoles, Atari absolutely dominated the market, with its popular Atari 2600 VCS and a slew of games. Five years after the 2600’s release, Atari tried to mirror that success with its next-generation console, the 5200. Unfortunately, a number of factors, not the least of which was a lack of…
100 Pin Bowling returns. This October, Wuhu Island is returning in Nintendo Switch Sports Resort. This new game for the Switch 2 features 12 different sports and “intuitive motion controls”, where you’ll make use of the Joy-Con 2 as bows, paddles and more. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The endless online battle of Guild Wars is about to spill over the borders of the MMO genre. Having only just announced Guild Wars 3 earlier this month, ArenaNet and its parent NC has revealed that it’s also taking the series into an entirely new genre, through an official Guild Wars card game called Mistbound….
Hell yeah! In April, a Nintendo rating for Blizzard’s action-RPG Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred surfaced on the Indonesian rating board. Now, in an update, a Switch 2 classification for the expansion has been discovered on the Taiwan rating board. It appears this rating also surfaced in April, but it wasn’t spotted at the time….
From the archives: This story originally ran in PC Gamer (UK) #279. REINSTALL (Image credit: Crytek) Reinstall invites you to join us in revisiting PC gaming days gone by. Today, Rick revisits the gorgeous mess that is Crysis 2. Crysis 2 gets a lot wrong. Its AI is criminally stupid. Its story is a convoluted…
When PC Gamer senior editor Wes Fenlon wrote about Luna Abyss last month, he said it left him “already hoping for more of its kind.” Sadly, it doesn’t look like that will happen—the entire team that made it has just been laid off. The news came in the form of a LinkedIn post from Kwalee…
The gaming industry’s in a bit of a state, defined these days by extreme consolidation, massive waves of layoffs as the pandemic boom fades into memory, and skyrocketing hardware prices we’re calling the RAMpocalypse. But that doesn’t mean less money’s going around: quite the opposite, in fact. A quarterly Global Games Market Report was published…