Press the C Button to unlock your NSO reward. We’re not joking about this, but just days after Nintendo ended its GameChat “Welcome Offer” promo, it’s now running a new “Missions & Rewards” event, encouraging Switch 2 users to make use of the system’s voice chat and video features. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Wahoo! The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is out now in cinemas, and as expected, it’s already breaking box office records. Deadline reports the film has experienced the “best opening day so far this year” in the US – reaching $34 million. This puts it ahead of Project Hail Mary on $33.1 million. Galaxy has also…
Recently uncovered cassette tape recordings of the 1989 Computer Game Developers Conference reveal how much has changed in the games industry in the last 40 years, as well as how much has stayed the same. Decades ago, Origin Systems’ Robert Garriott was already worried about the PC gaming market being oversaturated, even when a mere…
Improvements, bug fixes and more. Too Kyo Games and Marvelous are still showing support for The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy in 2026 with regular updates, and the latest one has now been announced. It’s a relatively small one compared to some of the previous updates, but it does include some notable improvements such…
According to a recent job listing, Blizzard is cooking up a new game in an engine and a genre that none of its releases have used before. The studio is looking for a “Lead Designer, Innovation” to run development on a “AAA open-world shooter” without a name. Right now, every Blizzard game except Hearthstone (made…
If you’re signed up for Steam client betas, you might have noticed that the storefront looks a little fresher today. That’s because Valve is testing some updates to the Steam store home page that, you guessed it, “aims to make it even easier for you to find new games by displaying more content and information.”…
Watch out, Mephisto: A true terror has arrived in Diablo 4 in the form of a giant chicken. It’s April Fool’s Day (or April Fowl’s Day, if you will) and Blizzard has unleashed a new world boss that drops entirely unique, chicken-flavored loot. I barely missed the window to battle the beast, but players in…
“Minishoot’ Adventures is a delight, questionable apostrophe use in the title and all,” we wrote back in 2024, in a roundup of the year’s great crop of metroidvanias. Compared to its contemporaries Animal Well and Nine Sols, Minishoot’ Adventures didn’t get a ton of attention two years ago, but it was a realhead’s hidden gem…
Amidst its ongoing Japanese patent lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair, Nintendo thoroughly stirred the legal pot on this side of the Pacific when news broke in September 2025 that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had granted the publisher US patent 12,403,397—a patent describing a system for battling summoned characters. Despite concerns about how…
20 years after Garry’s Mod changed pretty much everything, Facepunch Studios has revealed that the sandbox successor s&box (yes, pronounced “sandbox”) will finally launch on Steam on April 28. The news arrived not with a big announcement or flashy marketing push, or any kind of fanfare at all—it just popped up quietly in a Steam…