Following its release on Switch and Switch 2 last December. There was some shock earlier this week when Nintendo’s financials seemingly confirmed that neither the Switch or Switch 2 version of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond had cracked one million sales. So, how about the combined figures? Well, Game File journalist Stephen Totilo has now reached…
The sequel to Fallout 2 being developed by Black Isle Studios in the early 2000s was codenamed Van Buren, and when it was shut down in 2003—after which Bethesda picked up the ball, but made a completely different game—it became a kind of lost relic for Fallout tragics. Van Buren’s the mythic could-have-been that almost-was,…
The Bard’s Tale As I’ve spent the last 5 days sick as a dog, trying desperately to focus enough to accomplish even the most basic tasks, I’m taken back to my childhood in the ’80s. Back then, a sick day was a careful balancing act between not feeling well enough to go to school and…
“Inscryption-inspired card battler The Killing Stone gets a rad new trailer showing off voice talent from Critical Role and Baldur’s Gate 3, and it’s out next month,” we said in January. All of that remains true, except that when it releases on February 18 The Killing Stone will now be releasing into early access rather…
The Heavy, Max and the rest of the gang are back. Ahead of the Nintendo Partner Direct Showcase today, developer Skunkape Games (the team founded by former Telltale employees who revived the Sam & Max series) has announced the return of Poker Night at the Inventory. This poker title featuring an all-star cast of video…
Valve has broken its silence on its forthcoming hardware line-up, offering new details on the Steam Frame and Steam Machine, as well as an answer for why it hasn’t revealed pricing and a release date yet (hint: blame the RAMpocalypse). It has also dropped some information about the kind of performance we can expect on…
I didn’t play Dragon Quest 7 when it first appeared on Sony’s PlayStation back in 2000. It was an expensive import RPG (even in its translated US form) in my part of the world, and as I already had plenty of those clogging up my shelves I was happy to leave it alone. By the…
Download it now. Splatoon 3 received a major update last month, adding health bars and more, and it’s now been followed up with the release of Version 11.0.1. This latest update addresses multiple bugs, including fixes to player controls and fixes to the game’s multiplayer. Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of Nintendo’s official support page:…
Valve has confirmed it still plans to release the Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller in the first half of 2026, but more specific release and pricing information has been complicated by the ongoing memory and storage crises, or as we like to call it, the RAMpocalypse. “When we announced these products in November,…
It’s not uncommon to hear executives at AI companies and other such boosters say that the public has been slow to embrace the glories of AI because they just don’t understand it. A new report by consumer research firm Circana suggests that’s actually not the case, however, finding that among people who don’t want AI…