You have “until the end of January 2027” to claim the Switch 2 version. Ahead of the release of Minecraft on the Switch 2 on 27th October 2026, Mojang has now sent pre-orders for this version of the game live. It’s also provided some additional information about the “digital upgrade path” for owners of the…
(Image credit: Capcom) Key deets 🔥 The Dark Arisen expansion releases on October 8 or 9 depending on your timezone. 🔥 There is no preload currently available. 🔥 The DLC size is about 25GB. The Dark Arisen expansion for Dragon’s Dogma 2 releases this week, over two years on from when the base game launched…
What did the critics think? Konami’s Castlevania series returns next week, and the first critic review for Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse has now gone live. It comes from the famous Japanese publication Famitsu, so what did this outlet think of this new experience developed by Evil Empire and Motion Twin? Read the full article on nintendolife.com
A tension that will never go away as long as World of Warcraft: Forever exists is how true it is to the 2004 MMO. Blizzard signed up for this by creating an MMO that is trying to blend the old with the new so that anyone, regardless of their experience with WoW, can get into…
Jack Thompson appearing in a 2008 episode of the Jace Hall Show, a few months before his disbarment by the Florida Bar. (Image credit: The Jace Hall Show) It’s hard to imagine now, but a little over 20 years ago the gaming world was absolutely scandalized by Hot Coffee, a mod to activate abandoned code…
What happened Blood Bowl 3, the latest videogame iteration of Games Workshop’s tabletop game of literal fantasy football, has an in-game store where a currency called Warpstone can be spent on cosmetics and new teams. An upgraded version called Warhammer Blood Bowl, now published by Slitherine rather than previous publisher Focus Home Interactive, is currently…
Between midnight and 8:00 am this morning I received 56 emails. By the end of today that number will be well over a hundred, by the end of October I’ll have about 4,000 more, and my total for 2026 will be in the neighborhood of 50,000 (work and personal combined.) Fifty. Thousand. Emails. In a…
Wolves hunt in packs, Arisen. While travelling the frigid wastes of Norgan, my Pawns and I were assailed by a band of Hobgoblins, and due to my poor leadership skills – causing multiple groups to aggro at once by running by instead of dealing with them then and there – we were overwhelmed. The tide…
Former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who left the company and the videogame industry at the end of 2023 following its acquisition by Microsoft, is back in the game. Skydance, the company formed by Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, has added Kotick to its board, where he will serve as an independent director. In…
Japan’s NEC PC-98 series of personal computers, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, were home to hundreds of adventure games and visual novels with absolutely impeccable pixel art. It was a whole vibe—sometimes cute, sometimes incredibly detailed with a very limited color palette, and very (very) often pornographic. Very few of these games were ever…