Months after the games hit Switch. Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 launched on the Switch in October 2025, finally freeing the critically-acclaimed sequel from its Wii-shaped prison. Unless you’ve had them on pre-order, you might have forgotten that a pair of accompanying amiibo figures were also announced alongside the Switch ports, and…
Russ Bullock, the CEO of MechWarrior developer Piranha Games, has confirmed that the studio has imposed layoffs, saying that roughly 30% of its employees have been let go. The layoffs first came to light on LinkedIn (via GamesIndustry), where multiple employees reported being let go; at least two of them said the layoffs came as…
Amidst yesterday’s yearly crop of April Fool’s japery, Marathon game director Joe Ziegler broke from seasonal convention on X by sharing an early, fool-free preview of balance adjustments Bungie has planned for upcoming patches in the weeks ahead. With tweaks planned for weapons, attachments, deployables, runner shells, and more, Ziegler said the wide-ranging slate of…
Every game we’ve scored 9/10+. Another month, another whopping great eShop sale to peruse, and another round up from your friends at NL who over the years have reviewed a hefty chunk of Switch games. Indeed, a quick look in our backend (steady!) shows we’ve got… blimey… 3,415 Switch 1 & 2 game reviews live…
Category: Games April 2, 2026 Free Play Days – Find Your Assassin: The Perfect Assassin’s Creed Game Based on Your Playstyle Lucy O’Brien, Director, Editorial Communications, Ubisoft Summary From April 2–6, six Assassin’s Creed titles; Unity, Syndicate, Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla, and Mirage, are available to play for free on Xbox as part of Free Play…
Watch the full interview video above on the PC Gamer YouTube channel, if you prefer. There are many goofy placeholders across Slay the Spire 2, MS Paint-style art pieces that stand in for the finished products that will come later as development progresses through Early Access, which Mega Crit says the game might take between…
In a somewhat ill-timed announcement (I promise it’s not an April Fools joke), the Jak & Daxter-porting OpenGOAL team revealed its complete PC port of Jak 3 yesterday, completing its years-long project to natively port the entire trilogy to PC. It still requires a legally-obtained copy of Jak 3 to run, similar to an emulator…
Haste and Content Warning are out now. Landfall Publishing gave us a surprise double-whammy yesterday, 1st April 2026, on the Switch 2 eShop when it dropped two of its games on the digital storefront. One of these we knew about, but the date was up in the air – Content Warning, which has received a…
Everything changed when the fire nation attacked… Honestly, that’s what it feels like writing this review. Teamgroup’s MP44Q PCIe 4.0 SSD has finally landed with me for testing, and it’s a curious little QLC number that, once upon a time, would have offered itself up as a nice, affordable, tantalizing opportunity for any would-be budget…
The First Descendant’s launch hype went over like a bag of candy smuggled into a movie theater—exciting at first, but regrettably short-lived. While last July it was celebrating a screaming high of 10 million players in its first week alone, SteamDB shows the game has simmered to around 5,000 concurrent players as I write this….