Over the past few months, Embark has been pulling some levers behind the scenes to improve Arc Raiders‘ matchmaking. Despite the devs previously saying matchmaking wasn’t “binary,” it didn’t feel like that in practice. My solo lobbies were peaceful walks in the park, while trio lobbies were much more violent. From these experiments, “one change…
“It might be a little while before it’s released for real”. There seems to be some confusion in the Sega Dreamcast community recently after a video surfaced claiming that the long-awaited unofficial port of Sonic Mania had been released. The port, developed by SonicFreak94, Falco Girgis, and Jnmartin, has been on our radar since 2024,…
Nintendo’s fresh take receives a glowing reception. The excitement for Splatoon Raiders might not have been as big as certain other first-party Nintendo titles in the lead-up to its release, but now that it’s out, the Switch 2 exclusive is getting a lot of praise from fans. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Get a slice of the new TMNT paid DLC. Since racing onto the Switch and Switch 2 last year, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has received multiple paid and free DLC updates. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Remakes help it achieve this. Resident Evil isn’t an annual franchise, but Capcom says it’s been using remakes to help it meet its goal of releasing a major title every year. In the latest issue of Game Informer, producer Masachika Kawata mentioned how revisiting older games in between new releases allows the Japanese company to…
For years, kids who wanted to play with little cars had two major brands to choose from: either Mattel’s Hot Wheels or Tyco’s Matchbox (which, ironically, was purchased by Mattel in 1997). There were other smaller creators, like Johnny Lightning and Maisto, but those were the two everyone knew. So, when Galoob decided to enter…
FFVII was already a massive undertaking. The Final Fantasy VII Remake series will reach its conclusion next year, and it’s led to questions about other entries in the long-running role-playing series receiving a similar makeover. The FFXIV game director Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida responded to a question about this at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest…
Jay and Silent Bob first appeared in the 1994 grunge film Clerks as eccentric weed dealers. Jay was the sweary, loquacious, long haired slacker, and Silent Bob was the silent, ruminative long haired slacker. They were cult figures in the ’90s. Most of my teenage friends thought they were very funny, and Clerks is still…
The party doesn’t stop. Last September, the Mario Party style game LEGO Party arrived on the Switch with “60 hilarious minigames”. If you haven’t already given this multiplayer title a go, it looks like it might be making an encore on the Switch 2. A rating for this version of the game has now surfaced…