It’s a mouthful. Kirby’s big 3D adventure is getting the ol’ Nintendo Switch 2 Edition treatment tomorrow as Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star-Crossed World arrives on the newer console. Our verdict is already in — and we think this is now, definitively, Kirby’s very best outing — but besides the expanded content and…
Despite being one of 2025’s biggest flops, MindsEye is one of the more fascinating failures in recent memory, largely because of the seemingly paranoid allegations of developer Build A Rocket Boy’s co-CEOs Mark Gerhard and former Rockstar executive Leslie Benzies. Both before and after MindsEye’s release, Benzies and Gerhard have insisted—without substantiation—that its middling reputation…
A specialized headset for a specialized mission At A GLANCE (+) Spec Ops Sturdy, well-designed headset for gamers; individual controls for 5.1 audio channels; comfy as hell over long periods; line noise reduction. (-) Semper Rigidum Mic doesn’t detach; headset doesn’t detach from remote either; fixed mic distance. When you think about hardware required to…
Download it now. Nintendo has released a new update for Donkey Kong Bananza on the Switch 2, bumping it up to Version 3.0.0. This is the first update since October. This one adds Thai as a supported language and you now also have the ability to set the camera’s automatic tracking to ‘on’ or ‘off’…
13 solid years ago, when PC Gamer global editor-in-chief Phil Savage was still grinding away as a lowly news guy, Crytek—which had purchased and rebranded Free Radical Design a few years earlier—gave a group of modders the official okay to make a “TimeSplitters CryEngine mod.” And like so many such projects, it floundered, popping up…
We’ve got the answer to today’s Wordle all typed up and ready to go, just hanging around this page if you need a quick win or you’re running out of rows to type your guesses into. Don’t worry if that’s all a bit sudden—our hint for the November 28 (1258) puzzle’s also on standby, and…
Just three months after the world premier trailer for Nagoshi Studio’s upcoming Gang of Dragon was revealed at the 2025 Game Awards, a Bloomberg report (via GamesIndustry) says NetEase has decided to end funding for the studio in May.Nagoshi Studio was founded by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi in 2021, after a 32-year run at Sega….
Our rundown of what to expect from this year’s edition of The Game Awards includes a brief note about a supposed leak of a trailer for Shenmue 4, shared by a YouTube account with eight (now 12) subscribers. Is it really a leak, or just an elaborate fake? It’s looking like the latter, as Ys…
Check out the new character trailer. Remember the Capcom and SNK-inspired 2D-pixel fighter Blazing Strike? It was originally revealed for the Switch and multiple other platforms in 2021. Now, in an update on the ‘All Aksys’ Twitch channel earlier before, it’s been confirmed this title will be arriving in “Summer 2024“. There’s a new character…
A new update for Civilization 7 aims to address “some player feedback” from the advanced access release of the game, and promises “larger, more substantive updates” on the way in the future. Civilization 7 doesn’t fully launch until February 11, but it’s been available since February 6 for players who ponied up for the Founders…