The next big event on Arc Raiders’ calendar is a snow day. Dubbed the Cold Snap, this limited-time event introduces the new Snowfall map condition for Topside locations, turning once lush regions like Dam Battlegrounds, Spaceport, Buried City and Blue Gate into a frozen hell. “The update continues the game’s strong momentum with a limited-time…
The Arc Raiders Cold Snap release time is imminent, letting us hop into the final update of the year for some wintry shenanigans. As teased in a short clip, as well as the roadmap, the primary thing to look forward to in this update is the Snowfall map condition, which completely changes the visuals of…
The Quickshot II makes a return next year. Retro Games Ltd, the company behind modern-day recreations of the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga 500 and Atari 400, has announced that it’s bringing back Spectravision’s legendary Quickshot II joystick (thanks, VGC). If you grew up in the ’80s and ’90s and owned a Spectrum, C64, Amiga,…
Hades 2, as is Supergiant’s wont with these sorts of roguelikes, had a long and extended early access period—which also means that it had a lot of patches, updates, and fiddling in its guts that might’ve soured players who were falling into comfy rhythms. After all, if you’re getting cosy with certain boons in one…
Pray to Eywa. Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has garnered some pretty positive reception since its release in 2023, with numerous updates providing more content and quality-of-life improvements, and graphics that stand as some of the best in the business. If you were perhaps hoping to see Avatar on the Switch 2, however, then you…
Featuring a new character called ‘Ralle’. Starshi, the developer of the incredible Super Mario fangame ‘Super Mario & The Rainbow Stars‘, has announced she will be releasing a second chapter to the game next year, in 2026. Super Mario & The Rainbow Stars, in case you aren’t familiar with it, is a popular Mario fangame…
When I first went Topside in Arc Raiders, I was convinced that it would go down similarly to Tarkov: no talking, just fighting. But I was pleasantly surprised when I found this to not be the case at all. Arc Raiders has managed to find itself in a sweet spot for PvPvE where a shared…
Colour me surprised. Like many gamers of ‘advanced’ age, I’ve played a lot of Konami games over the years – perhaps most notably during the early ’90s, when the Japanese company was one of the most renowned names in the industry. Konami released numerous classic games on the SNES, Mega Drive/Genesis, NES, and PC Engine,…
For those who are just joining us, memory pricing has turned apocalyptic. Case in point, Framework announced it would be raising the price of its DDR5 memory modules for its laptops by 50% to account for the spiking costs the modular laptop brand is seeing from memory distributors and suppliers. That’s not even the wildest…
Feline cosy. If you’re after something cute and cosy to curl up with this Christmas, you may need to look no further than Stars In The Trash, a new cat platformer (catformer?) that looks like it’s walked straight out of Disney’s classic back catalogue. Animated by a team of artists who have previously worked for…