The next update has also been confirmed. Nintendo has already been quite active this week, rolling out a new Switch 2 firmware update and “Handheld Mode Boost” option, and adding to this it’s now announced a new update for Splatoon 3. According to Nintendo of America’s official support page, this is scheduled to be released…
Considered the first game to use the ‘Visual Novel’ name. Leaf Games’ PC-98 title Shizuku has been translated into English by Her-Saki, just in time for its 30th anniversary. Released exclusively in Japan at the start of 1996, the game was apparently the first to use the genre term ‘Visual Novel’ and marked the genesis…
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 is now officially in development, but that doesn’t mean Saber Interactive is finished with Space Marine 2. Quite the opposite, in fact: The studio announced today that another year of free and paid content for the game is on the way, as is a new “large scale update” set to…
I’m as capable at 2D platforming and combat as I am at actual jumping and feats of arms: There’s a lot of flailing involved and it’s unpleasant for anyone watching. So while I expected Silksong to kick my ass, the Hollow Knight sequel has proven itself surprisingly brutal even for those who’ve beaten Team Cherry’s…
SimCity 4 modders are making previously-unheard-of DLL plugins and mods due to recent advances, enabling changes of tweaks to how it runs that prior modders would have considered impossible. Over the past few months these types of deep, game-altering mods, previously restricted to just a couple famous examples, have proliferated into dozens of tweaks to…
Category: Games February 23, 2026 Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 – A Holy Warrior of the God-Emperor Joins the Battle Against Chaos Matt Bone, Lead Designer, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 Summary Sister of Battle Nyra Veyrath joins the fight as a second playable character alongside returning Ultramarine Malum Caedo. See the never-before-seen key art for Warhammer…
Arcade attract mode was never just background theater. It was a machine’s fastest way of advertising its theme, pace, and identity before a player touched a button. The best cabinets used it to do two jobs at once: announce what kind of experience they offered and make that experience feel alive from across the room….
We recently reported on how Burnout Paradise Remastered on Nintendo Switch looked compared to the original PS3 version, but now the folk at Digital Foundry have uploaded their tech analysis. It gives us a more in-depth insight into how it runs on Switch and, thanks to Nintendo Everything, you can check out some of the…
Rare’s Sea of Thieves, the live service pirate-em-up and one of Microsoft’s great Game Pass stalwarts, has announced a new collaboration with Bungie’s Destiny 2. This must be a funny feeling for Bungie, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2000 and made its name with the Xbox-exclusive Halo games, before going independent in 2007, and…
While the list of games like Stardew Valley just keeps growing, the list of games made by Stardew’s creator is still percolating. Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone’s own next game Haunted Chocolatier is still deep in development, but it turns out that a former Stardew contributor is also working on a new life sim that may even…