Nintendo is investigating. Plenty of readers (and beyond) have been enjoying the Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream ‘Welcome Version’ demo over the past 24 hours. But for some diving in this morning, they’ve been greeted by a rather unpleasant surprise: a crash. It turns out that Nintendo has identified a bug with the demo, which…
World of Warcraft: Midnight is one of the most ambitious expansions in the game’s 20-year history, and I don’t entirely mean that as a compliment. Blizzard is taking its biggest swings in years, and sometimes Midnight whiffs—but just as often this expansion smashes it, dosing you with a hit of pure refined nostalgia in the…
US senator Bernie Sanders has announced a new bill calling for a pause on the construction of new data centers in the United States, alongside Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The AI Data Center Moratorium Act aims to buy time for US lawmakers to put into place regulations around AI and AI data center expansion, taking…
Last week I reported on data from JPR claiming that gaming PC sales are booming and that the high end of the market is going gangbusters, in particular. Now a different research outfit is predicting that overall PC sales will be down by 5% in 2026. So what, exactly, is going on? The new report…
Spirited away. Kena: Bridge of Spirits is an easy game, but it has two near insurmountable difficulty spikes. The first is the compulsion to constantly sit with your companion critters and make them dance around you or kiss you on the cheek, which brings the game to a screeching halt. The second is an overwhelming…
Weeks after my visit to Bit Reactor, I can still distinctly remember every mission from my four and a half hours of hands-on time. It nails the XCOM specialty of combat that leaves you with stories, like when I used Jedi Padawan Tel-Rea Vokoss to force pull a guy into an exploding barrel, blowing up…
“Destroy Jason if you can”. As we’ve mentioned on the site before, LJN’s 1989 video game adaptation of Friday the 13th isn’t necessarily held up as a shining example of what the NES library has to offer. Gaming critics and YouTubers, for instance, have regularly included it on lists of the worst games available for…
The perpetrator is also dead, according to reports. Warning: Please be advised that this post includes details that may cause distress. A female employee at The Pokémon Center in the Sunshine City complex in Tokyo has died following a fatal stabbing incident on the evening of 26th March 2026, according to reports from news outlets….
Excuse me, WHAT? Here’s a headline we never thought we’d be writing — Star Fox‘s very own Fox McCloud will be making an appearance in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Yes, you read that correctly — Fox McCloud will be in the Mario Galaxy movie. No need to pinch yourselves. Read the full article on…