“They shipped me a Super Famicom and a copy of Mario”. In our Lost Zelda Games article, we mentioned interviewing the gentleman behind the Nintendo Adventure Books. Reaching that point required an interesting detour – the books were credited to Clyde Bosco, Bill McCay, and Matt Wayne, all of whom seemed impossible to find online…
Part 11 – Playing catch-up. Annnnd welcome back, lovely people, to our ‘Games We Missed’ series – we’re up to part 11! Every six months for the past several years, we’ve been sending out the call for reader recommendations that flag Switch games we’ve missed in the eShop flood. The sheer number of releases coming…
Hey readers, I’m super excited about this post, because we’ve been working hard for the past few months to bring Divinity: Original Sin 2 to you not only improved and bigger than its initial launch, but also earlier! We’ve been having many discussions with the team at PlayStation about what we can do to ensure…
As promised, Nintendo has released a big update to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, bringing the game to version 9.0.0. This is the update that adds Steve from Minecraft to the roster as a DLC Fighter, as well as a Minecraft stage, some music, and even some Mii costumes. The full list of changes are down…
Top Deal: A good set of headphones is a must for any gamer. However, there are times when you want to immerse yourself in true 5.1 surround sound with strategically placed speakers. Yeah, the significant other may not like hearing your late night gaming sessions, and maybe you’ll wake the baby, but just crank up…
Put your arms around the world, it’s Switchmas time. Season’s Greetings to one and all! The 25th of December has crept up on us once more with its promise of sugary treats, hot and cold meats, papery hats and glittery tat… and, of course, video games. It’s been a slow but steady year for Nintendo…
The thing that makes FromSoft games great isn’t the tightly honed boss fights, the layered lore, or the quiet tragedy of their antagonists. It’s the ability to write ‘Don’t give up skeleton’ and ‘Try finger but hole’ across every inch of the game and subject players around the world to it. Every game should have…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. You don’t tend to buy a gaming mouse every year (unless you’re particularly clumsy) so it can be easy to ignore the miasma of tech coming out. Yet this year has produced…
Category: Games March 5, 2025 “Did We Actually Do That?”: Josef Fares Explains How Split Fiction Pushes the Co-Op Adventure Genre Further Than Ever Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief There was a moment, after years of development on Split Fiction began to come to a close, where director Josef Fares found himself playing through his…
“The Wildest Adventure of Them All!” returns. Limited Run Games has announced that it’s bringing NES side-scrolling platformer Little Samson to the Switch in 2026. The reveal took place during the company’s 10th anniversary stream. Originally released in 1992 for the NES and directed by former Capcom designer Shinichi Yoshimoto (Strider, Ghouls ‘n Ghosts), Little…