But Switch still dominates. Famitsu has published the latest boxed charts data from Japan, and it’s once again another success story for the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World. Both headline the hardware and software charts respectively, with Mario Kart World shifting another 94,645 units to total 2,668,381 lifetime sales. Meanwhile, Pokémon Legends: Z-A –…
Less than three years after it went live on Steam, Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis is calling it quits. Square Enix said in an end-of-service announcement that the sale of Red Crystal in-game currency has already been halted, and the game itself will be taken offline on October 6. Square Enix apologized for any disappointment…
AMD and Nvidia are in a cat and mouse game. When one launches a new upscaling technology, the other follows. DLSS, then FSR. Frame Generation, then Frame Generation (AMD style). You get the idea. Traditionally we’ve come to expect Nvidia to lead and AMD to follow, but that’s not how AMD’s Aaron Steinman sees it….
At a glance: Qualcomm gets $2 from Arm in the Delaware jury’s decision, part of a yearslong licensing dispute between the two. Yahoo Finance puts their market caps at $210 billion and $243 billion respectively. Qualcomm alleges bad faith action by Arm over tech licensed by the former company from the latter. Qualcomm won $1…
It’s June, the weather is warm, and school is out for the summer. I’m excited to announce some great deals on PlayStation Now to let you play all season long. We are also launching a great new batch of games available to stream for June, bringing the total number of games in the service to…
When Doom: The Dark Ages launched back in May, developers id Software promised that it would add an extra graphics option in a later patch, specifically path tracing. The stompy-stompy shooter uses ‘normal’ ray tracing for all lighting, shadows, and reflections by default, and now that I’ve had a few days to explore the new…
Here’s what the critics think. With Mario and Sonic’s latest releases now available, the focus this week turns to Konami’s Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1. If you are planning to check it out, we’ve got some early impressions courtesy of the first batch of reviews. While there aren’t any Switch-specific ones included, it…
The Undertaker Remembrance is fairly simple compared to many of the other Nightfarers in Elden Ring Nightreign. There’s only one step that’s likely to trip you up, as you help this corrupted abbess search for the Scholar in Limveld. The reason this step is so hard is because it’s entirely inaccurate; the Scholar is actually…
“We were doing so many things that had never been done before”. Sometimes, a change of pace can be a good thing – and that was certainly the case for Martyn Chudley, founder of Raising Hell Software. Responsible for Combat Crazy, The Killing Game Show / Fatal Rewind and Wiz ‘n’ Liz, the small studio…
One of the biggest discussions emerging from Subnautica 2‘s tsunami of an early access launch is the debate over combat. Just a few days ago, we reported that developer Unknown Worlds says players “are here to exist on this planet, not dominate it.” Still, that’s not stopped many players from demanding the means to fight…