Sugar 1 is a shape-shifting handheld with two screens and rotatable controllers that make it look like a legally distinct transformable robot

As a recently revitalised hardware category Android and Windows handhelds are enjoying a period of reinvention and refinement. This means that, alongside the obvious queries (how well does it play games and for how long can its portable battery stand it?) manufacturers are also posing questions I didn’t know I wanted to ask, like, “Do…

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Monster Hunter Wilds player spits in the face of creation, fuses Nata with Arkveld like they’re doing a Full Metal Alchemist villain speedrun

Despite the fact it’s not advisable to mod an online game—not for ethical reasons, mind, unless you’re a dirty cheater—that hasn’t stopped Monster Hunter Wilds from having a bustling mod scene. While I’d typically celebrate this as a sign of ingenuity and creativity, I’m unfortunately going to have to say: Stop. Shut it all down….

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Helldivers 2 CCO Johan Pilestedt says the industry’s got it backwards by putting features over fundamentals: ‘We talk way too little about the core philosophy’

Helldivers 2’s runaway popularity last year was, in part, due to just how focused it felt—while other games might bombard you from orbit with a silo of microtransactions, features, menus, and stats, Helldivers 2 basically said, “Hey, do you like shooting bugs? You wanna scrap some robots? Here’s a bunch of guns to do just…

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