An “important update” for the Nintendo community. We’re now entering a rather busy time of the year for game releases, and this week sees the arrival of Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game. If you are planning on picking up the original Switch version, there’s one thing you might want to know. In a last-minute announcement,…
The hunt begins. The new adventure Splatoon Raiders is out exclusively for the Switch 2 this week and like many other first-party Nintendo releases nowadays, there’s a launch update. The patch notes aren’t available locally just yet, but according to Nintendo’s Japanese website, it comes with some adjustments as well as bug fixes to improve…
From the archives: This feature was originally published in PC Gamer #305 (UK, June 2017). It appears below as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and presentation. No gaming genre can generate stories quite like the colony sim. Almost entirely unique to PC gaming, colony sims task players with building and sustaining a…
The Switch 2 Edition arrives next week. In case you somehow missed it, Nintendo recently announced the Xenoblade Chronicles trilogy would be getting Nintendo Switch 2 Editions. It’s already released the Switch 2 version of the first game, and now it’s gearing up for the return of the second title with a new software update….
At this point being into the digital versions of Blood Bowl is basically masochism. In the 1990s MicroLeague published a version that was so cheap and nasty I said, “to call it barebones would be an insult to skeletons.” Cyanide picked up the licence after that, releasing two decent adaptations whose DLC model was controversial…
As we descend ever further into an AI-fueled dystopia, one question about our future becomes ever more pressing: When the internet is dominated by machines, who’s going to be around to continue its long-standing tradition of fetishizing Japanese culture and media? Well, there’s no reason to worry, because it turns out the AIs are weebs,…
Category: Playtests July 22, 2026 Enter the Tower: Arkheron Closed Beta is Live for XBOX Insiders Tim, XBOX Program Manager We’re from Bonfire Studios – a small game dev team of industry veterans working on our first game, Arkheron! Today, we’re excited to open the doors of Arkheron’s Closed Beta to the XBOX Insiders Program,…
Famed British political figure Count Binface has issued a public demand to Sega to quit horsing around and finish Shenmue 4, and suggested the company may be nationalized by the UK government if it doesn’t move with sufficient haste. For those not in the know, Count Binface is not an entirely serious political figure: He’s…
The Bethesda Game Studios Union says it is filing a legal complaint against Bethesda for “continuing to violate labor laws in Canada” by prematurely terminating Canadian employees on July 17—the same day it dropped a huge announcement about the future of Fallout and other games. The timing of the Bethesda infodump was suspect, to put…
Buying someone else a Steam game got a lot easier today. You no longer have to be Steam friends with the person to whom you’re sending a gift, and don’t even need a Steam account. You can also select gifts directly from a shared wishlist. Here are today’s Steam gifting changes, in short: It’s now…